well good afternoon everyone eric here from nomadic fanatic i'm out here exploring uh the
yuma foothills out here looking for something uh very specific over here and just entered the
kofa national wildlife refuge and what we're trying to find is
an old ghost town up in the hills called castle dome mine ghost town we're gonna find it today
i mean at least we do have some really good weather but tater tot is going to be pushed to
the limits today guys yeah definitely uh before we start this trek up though i want to thank my
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am i going to seriously regret this trip i don't think so i think the reward is going to be worth
it the road is not that bad actually um it's not even very grated it's just very gravelly
and it's going to be slow going it did say that i need a a high clearance vehicle to get up here
but so far i mean if i get scared i'll turn around obviously but so far it looks okay
all right well we have arrived guys there you go historic castle dome city established 1864
here and what's left up here they have a museum run off solar so we're gonna go get checked in
all right it's a self guided tour here through castle dome ghost town 15 bucks to check it
out but y'all are with me so you're getting in for free we're gonna go peek around
they actually have magnets when you first come in somebody hand paints custom rock magnets that
says castle dome on it hand painted one of a kind not one single one looks like another one
in there possibly the coolest magnet i've seen in a year let's check out castle dome pretty
interesting i think by now you all know i'm in an area of arizona that's well known for
rocks and mining and stuff like that and uh this town turned into a ghost town because well it's in
the middle of nowhere as you saw my trek up the mountain feels like it'd be a really cool place
to uh film uh a movie or something because it has that that smell that that feel of the old timeys
i'm really thankful for my ryobi power tools because these are hand
drill tools that's right you are the horsepower behind these tools
peek into this room wow i think that's a printing press
that's a really old stuff in here i got an old safe in the corner wow passenger door of an old
car with a really cool arizona sunset printed on there the silver bar saloon now we're talking a
little plaque here on the entrance of the saloon says castle dome january 4th 1901 sunday there was
a killing at castle dome mining camp on new year's day the shooting occurred when a miner named juan
lego had an argument with one of the prostitutes of the camp who was paying too much attention to
another man so freaking cool guys i wish you could just be in here with me to smell all the
different smells all the old tonics on the wall up there and everything my gosh the old timey piana
you feel lonely cowboy what man yeah i mean is there an upstairs there is
actually an upstairs well a loft oh i don't think it's that kind of saloon anymore
the wood boardwalk for when it rains so you don't get mud and that's that's fancy for the 1800s look
at this cool building if we back up a little bit little balcony up there where you can chill and
gossip about everyone in the neighborhood here hey
the miners got to have somewhere to party how about the miners diner no smoking whoa
look at this vintage popcorn machine look at this guy down here manly hurry here can you wash some
popcorn oh that is really neat look at this place an old refrigerator oh and they're still selling
goodies look at that water pop and goodies are a dollar on the honor system help yourself are
you telling me that there's a nice cold coke in this old refrigerator and it works oh they got
pepsi and they got pepsi but it does work oops better close their freezer there
pretty cool but that thing works that's how they get water out here the well digger this machine
would dig your well just realize this place is a lot bigger than i thought we'll get back to
these buildings because the path naturally goes on the other side of the well digger
and opens up into a whole lot more wow we got the stone cabin here it'd be nice to
build something like this out in the desert that's a washing machine i believe that's your
washing machine yep that's how you ring it dry and you put it i don't know how you get access
to that but yeah let's check out the cabin in here oh now this is cozy i'm liking that wow
um something about that beam it does not look safe to me it looks very bent
that's a that's an important support beam there guys all right what do we got here the bank
this is the bank looks pretty secure wow very very cool man
wow how cool is that that's some old money on the counter uh maybe bank notes all right you
got your machine works building there looks like a blacksmith over there you got everything you
need here just like having a walmart they really tried to keep everything as it was
back in the 1800s here's the blacksmith's shop here wow
and they do have quite a few people who made the trek
up the mountain to see everything well they've got some old horseshoes in there
looks like they're getting ready to make some axes possibly yeah really neat here is the church
entrance oh a very old church here only going to hold about 20 people too little pipe organ pieces
and the sheriff's office here i'll peek in see if they have a jail cell well they do there's
the sheriff's office this lamp is made out of one of the pieces of wood from the area here
they got all their guns locked up there pretty cool and there's their jail cell
old school handcuffs there and looks like somebody may have gotten tired of waiting
oh yeah this is really cozy where's his bucket where's his bucket however look at that view
that view here is the hotel
they may or may not have vacancy let's peek in here oh wow oh this is really cool wow there's
the upstairs up there where the rooms are at i'm guessing and what's a hotel without their
own bar here jeez all the lights are off i think that's been updated to moderate electricity there
uh we don't have any jack daniels hmm it was just a simpler time back then right yeah
oh this hotel even has their own little gambling hall here we got roulette over there and
craps i think a version of craps
look at these doors just like walking out of a saloon that's cool neat town all right let's go
check out the mercantile believe it or not i'm not showing you everything at this place a lot in here
they're not really selling anything that i gotta have today here at this particular place
old bottles of vegetables
what's in this safe here i believe those are silver nuggets
that makes sense because it's a mining town what are we working on in here oh
this is the dentist of the 1800s i don't believe they had novocaine back then
no thank you here's another bar right here bar but you know what do you really need
they probably only had a few kinds of beer right just does the standard desert beer this is the
f what does that say flora temple bar another bar oh the entrance is uh locked up to that bar
we got over here this looks like it's more behind the scenes
no this is this is a little newer stuff we got in here
whoa that's like a pinball machine from the 40s maybe wow look at all the old
bottles of different oils lubricants gaskets auto repair shop in here
wow oh my gosh here we go again anybody recognize this cigarette machine same exact one it's missing
the the cover right there but it does have this piece which i am missing on mine same exact one
not quite in as good a condition but a good piece for just sitting outside i like that oh
wait we did find the bar this is the other bar excuse me flow oh jukebox machine a rock-ola
yeah that's a very old 45 record player uh is that it is that a condom machine i think
that's an old condom machine right next to where you'd sit and eat your bacon and eggs
and then an old oven yeah yeah it's a really old table top oven there
i don't think too many people on the tour come back here and even see that room right there
because it doesn't have the right feel maybe i'm not even supposed to go back there
because here's the path and it kind of ended with no signs or anything after this one bar
right here now we're back on the trail well maybe i found something that nobody else has seen here
in the ghost town all right coming back out to where we started just a couple more to see here
that we skipped one is ah walt's barber shop all right is old walton there oh there's one
of walt's customers right there looks like he got you a good clean shave there yeah and play some
checkers while you're waiting for your turn pretty cool this old mirror here
wow look at that that's an old mirror there's walt by the way right there there's the barber
here's one of their mine train buggies on display here and is this this is a 16 foot mine down here
and last but not least adam's cabin ooh look at that saguaro cactus right there every one of those
legs on there every one of those little things is 10 years so that saguaro cactus looks to be about
70 or 80 years old i don't know how many are on the other side that's an old saguaro but yeah
the cabin here oh cozy what a cozy little cabin it's like it's like a tiny house of the 1800s
pretty cozy yeah you look a little look a little dusty there you might need a wash
there buddy got the essentials got a beer over there he's got his rice yeah gotta stay warm
up in the foothills uh dude i found your secret stash here of elixirs
fun little stop i showed you a lot of this place but my battery is almost dead so we're
gonna start this trek on back down the hill and go check in on those kitties at camp hey opie dopey
i was gone all day huh all day dad was gone you counted well thanks for counting
thanks buddy tara i missed you i missed you sweet girl yeah i missed you i'm sorry should
we spend some time together tonight since dad was out exploring all day
yeah it's nice out here it's nice out here guys i'm really enjoying this out here by the lake
uh i'm making a change here this week started two days ago but for the next seven days i'm taking a
social media break and a news break but i'm also not checking my emails either who we got isabella
we got bella are you supposed to be drinking that water okay um so i'm not going to be checking my
mail because yahoo puts those crazy stupid scare tactics stories and drama news on there um just
going to take a week off going to enjoy the water out here and but i'm still going to make videos
so uh tara and opie and i will see uh in a few days and uh happy new year guys see you soon bye
you