 Good morning from a place called Terolinga. I've been calling it Terolinga since yesterday. Basically this is a ghost town, but people live here, so it's not too ghosty if people still live here, and we're just walking in the old cemetery here, and this is a real... This whole area, by the way, used to be a mining village, mining town. There are some ruins, we'll call them ruins over there, that's what they call them. Those are just some old stone houses from way back in the day. And I do believe that these are all real graves here. And as you guys know, I don't really go inside cemeteries, but this is kind of a special place here. Nick is pointing out something. Nick's name is Boo. Boo. This is where Boo is. I don't know if that's like a ghost reference, but these ones over here are very, very old. This mining town was abandoned, and then a bunch of artists kind of re-colonized it or moved back here, I believe in the 60s, and here we go. If this is a real grave here, died 1933. Some of these are very, very old, and they just have some very old original wood. Actually, I would say most of them have a bunch of old original wood. And I don't know much about graves, but I think these points do west. If anybody knows, feel free to comment. I haven't looked that up yet, and I think they do go east-west. Probably don't even need to say this, but when you do come in here, obviously be respectful of the things and don't take into the old artifacts here. It's just disrespectful, and also this is a real cemetery here. And you're not supposed to walk on top of a grave. So if you see something like this, you just kind of walk around it. There's a bit more information. Cemetery dates to the early 1900s. I think we saw it in 1902. There was a lot of mercury mining in town. Dangerous working conditions. Gunfights influenced the epidemic in 1918. And some more information here on this side as well as the other side. So if you do come, feel free to check the information out, read about the old mines and stuff, and check out some ruins in a town, which we're going to do. About a hundred yards up the road, we have these nice historical ruins as the locals call them. And these are the existing buildings out here from the old mining days. And they are very, very interesting to see. I poked my head in yesterday, and this is all original stuff. So it hasn't been looted too much, I don't think, because there's a lot of the existing structures still here. There's some of the wood with the pipes and everything. And some of the, I'm guessing, tin roof right here. Here's the original entryway. And you can totally tell this is original, very old nail. Newer than Dan the Adventure Bus would, because they have round nails. And you can see some of the old fixtures here. The old hinges. This was the window, I'm guessing. So let's see if this still opens. Wow, it still does. Whoops. Maybe you shouldn't play with that too much. Don't want to break it. Here's a very simple original wall. This stuff looks like it could fall down on me any second. Although this steel pipe looks pretty sturdy. I don't think I'd want to be in here when it's pretty windy. It could be pretty hazardous. This looks like, I forget the name of it, but there's a name for mixing the clay with hay. A pretty traditional structure type of building. And look at how thick these walls are. So even if it was really hot in the summer, or really cold in the winter, a two-foot wall probably would keep it insulated fairly well, given the time period that this thing was built. Over here we have another room. This one has a skylight, as you can see. And a bunch of original doors still left on there. That was probably part of the roof. I mean, who really knows? I'm just speculating at this point. An old can of some sort. You can see broken glass, more metal. This looks like some kind of fender right here. Really interesting stuff. But if you come, obviously, respect it, and don't damage it intentionally. Although the more foot traffic, the more the stuff can potentially be damaged. So yeah, let's go have a peek. Looks like I see an outhouse over there. You can't get over there? Why not? Oh. There's a mine there. It goes back a little bit further, and then there's a mine, and you have to go down and then go back up to get over there. Interesting. Here's another little spot. This one, a little bit worse condition. You can see the original wood here. That's a pretty new nail. And all the leftover roof part of the walls. And stuff is pretty fragile. Very, very interesting to walk amongst original buildings from the old mining days. It just makes me wonder who lived here, what they did, what the story was, where they came from, and what life was like out here. Here's a little ravine area. Another little structure right here. And across over there, some more ruins. This one is very interesting. You can see the different types of materials used. I don't know if all the rocks fell off of this part, and that was made out of stone. It looks like it's two different materials. This has a little... I guess I'm going to open the door and enter. This looks like it has two different types of building here. The bottom being the stone, the top being this mud part with the original wood doorway. That has some really old piece of metal holding a piece of wood that was clearly for the roof. But yeah, very, very interesting. So we parked our adventure vehicles down here in the parking lot. There's a nice restroom right there. Really old car you can take a picture with right there. Coffee shop and an art gallery on that side. I highly recommend walking inside this place here, the Starlight Theater, and getting yourself a little knick-knack in the trading company over here. We are in the heart of the town, and it looks like there's an old mineshaft right over here. Yep, getting the thumbs up from Nick. Making friends? Yeah! Who's this? Um... Hi! But I'm going to call him Poncho. Hey Poncho! Hi! Oh, he's got a little thing on his head there. Hey buddy. A nice little friendly dog. Yeah. Looks like we have an original wagon from Who Knows When, 18, 1900s. And right over here is one of the mineshafts that you can look into. So... Look at that. And this thing... Is this the one that goes down 800 feet? Yeah, this one's only like 80. 80? Okay. I dropped it, no. Oh, you dropped something down there? Yeah, you want to rock? Yeah! Alright, so... I forget the calculation Claire might know, but if you... For every second of freefall is a certain amount of distance here. Time it? Yep. We're going to get the timer out. Yeah, you don't want to drop your phone down there. No, that would be bad. Okay. I don't know if I heard... I don't know, it heard like two little things. I think it might go further down, but maybe it hits like the wall or something. Because I really didn't hear like a... Pshh, kind of... That's a little rock. True. That's a long ways down. That's true. Can you feel the heat coming up from it? Actually, yeah. It's like hot air. Yeah, yeah, if you stand... Oh, it's weird. If you stand like right on it, you put your hand like this, you can feel the heat. So it looks like this is the original mine cart, I guess you would call it. It's got an attachment on top for the cables. But this is how it looks like four people or two people and some equipment would get down to the bottom here. Pretty interesting. Oh, by the way, there is some kind of like a walking tour thing and there's like, I don't know, 70 different things. We're not going to hit all 70 because that could take all day. But it is a really cool spot if you see a couple things you want to take a peek at which peak your interest. Maybe like a mine shaft and you can find them on the map and do a little exploring out here. So I was talking with these fine gentlemen just a moment ago. Would you tell me your names? Jeff Hayslip. And Neil Trammell. And you guys are local residents? Neighbors. Neighbors, there you go. You guys play over at the places in town, things like that? Yeah, all right. Very cool. And you have a local album for sale down at the High Sierra? Well, the High Sierra, the gas station has it. I think it's here in the general store. I hadn't checked lately. I don't know if they're out of stock or if they even remember who I am. Lajitas. And west and a little bit north along the Rio Grande. And you know what's on the other side of the Rio Grande? Mexico. We are a stone's throw away from Mexico. Actually, let's get the baseball chick to throw a stone to Mexico. Just to show everybody it really is a stone's throw. What? Do you want to get down? Well, dropping her apple. That's across the border. High five for that one. Here, let me give it a good toss here. If I hit anybody over there. So, baseball is something that people are talking about these days. Like the river. And I'm not saying I'm for or against it, but this is just a question. How would you do that? That looks difficult. The steepest inclines I've ever taken to dandy adventure bus, especially on a highway. Might be kind of hard to tell, but point it sideways and make it level. That's about level. So we decided to stop at El Cosmico here in Marfa where you can rent interesting little things like this and then some teepees and then the main attraction are these vintage campers on the property as well. And apparently you can do some tent camping here too. Today is two days before Christmas. So the town was a little on the quiet side. It's also a Saturday. It's also a little bit on the kind of touristy side for people coming in. And the cops were at full force pulling everybody over. Just definitely not in the Christmas spirit, but this is the Marfa Lights viewing place. We will take a look at that once the sun goes down. But I think this is going to be tonight's home. There are a couple, you know, there's us over there and then a little RV kind of set up, but it looks like overnight parking is A-OK here. Trashkins right there. Also trashkins on the highway. Also the fact that we're in the middle of nowhere makes me believe that, yeah, it should be all right. If not, we're going to knock on the door from another friendly sheriff or border patrol agent. So here is the Marfa Lights viewing building. They have complimentary complimentary, never seen that before binoculars. And the lights happen out here. I will let you guys wait to see them first while I try and capture them before I tell you exactly where they come from. Yeah, but a pretty nice spot and I think tonight's going to be a pretty epic sunset. So pretty excited about that. Box. She looks lonely.