USA news on Youtube Dec 15 2017

Good morning, we're now in Barstow next to Ghost Town

Soon we'll head to wander around there

It's supposedly quite big with population of 1200 and lots of mines

It should be interesting

Then we'll head to Route 66

At least for a little bit, not sure how much yet

We'll see what kind of historical buildings and things we'll encounter thre

It'll be an interesting day

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- This town was founded in 1881

There were a lot of gold prospectors here trying their luck back then

Then after that the prospectors came for the silver

Can't remember everything they had there but let's go and explore. We have a good map here

Founded in 1881

Then died in 1907

Then restored by Walter Knott in 1951

- It's pretty nice place

Lots of buildings

I don't think everything is original and authentic though

Not that important as long as the style is right

Here's a list of population and how it has changed

In 1887 there were 1200 people

Then the price of silver plummeted

and the town started dying

It's a really nice place so if you're ever around here I recommend visiting

We haven't seen much of it yet but it already feels like it's worth the visit

The entrance fee was 8 dollars per person so not that bad

It's starting to get really warm

It's not that windy here so you can definitely feel the heat, and that's good

A barber, you could get a haircut and moustache and a beard cut

Look, dentist's drill

- A chess board

- Route 66 soda and a hot dog

- It's better than what we had yesterday

(Mhm)

Pretty salty sausage

Teacher's pay was on average 70 to 110 dollars a month

Miner's salary was around 3 dollars a day

Pretty decent wage - Yeah

We've been exploring for a while now and have to admit that it is a fascinating place

Looks like an entrance to a mine - Using a pick-axe

Go ahead

- Imagine how rough it must have been - and the heat

- This is the first vein that started everything here if I'm guessing right

- We ended up taking the mine tour, 3 dollars per head

- You can do gold panning there, but it costs extra

- That was a nice place - Yeah, really interesting

I like the history a lot

I've been dreaming of sitting on an American porch in a rocking chair

This is just right

It was a bit surprising to see the floor full of these peanut shells when I came to the restaurant

I guess it doesn't do any harm that they're on the floor.

We got quite a cup of these too

- Even the water is in quite of a... jug

- I've never peeled these myself before

Aren't these regular pistachios?

I dunno

Me neither, they look like this when you buy them from the shop

- In the next episode we roll through Route 66

Which was one of the highlights of our trip

In an RV in the USA 2017