Look What I Did Today, the Third One

 Last Tuesday I drove with one of my supervisors to a town in Utah called Hanksville to pick up a BLM Jeep that had been left there. The town itself was little more than a tiny collection of buildings in the middle of no where. But they had a few interesting sights that I wanted to share.

The first was a yard of scrap metal that some local artists had made into a number of sculptures.




Another was a gas station with a general store that had been built, literally, into the side of a mountain.

And a third was a replica of a mill from a gold mine that was supposedly cursed by a Native American Medicine Man back in the 1800s.




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