Asleep by 10 pm last night and not awake until 8:30 am. Lovely. A breakfast of way too many sausages and then into the car towards a ghost town. Often when driving we see a promising road and decide to 'hang right' so after only twenty minutes we came off the main road and drove down a dusty path to a campsite with some nice views of the mountains. Jane then realised that (a) the battery light on her camera was flashing, (b) her spare battery was back at the hotel so we popped back to grab it.
Battery installed we were back on the road again heading to a ghost town in CIsco. Again, we saw a sign for Yellowcat. Sounded like it was worth a visit so we hung a right and drove and drove and drove down another dusty road. We saw what was probably a meercat but really it was just a very long empty, gravelly road which lead ever closer to mountains that you figured you'd never reach. We turned back.
Cisco was all you want from a ghost town. Empty, Interesting buildings. Nice and out of the way. The town has been seen in films; Thelma and Louise, Vanishing Point (1971) and Don't Come Knocking. Johnny Cash wrote the song; "Cisco Clifton's Fillin Station." (the photo below)
From the Ghost Town we were just about thirty minutes from Sego Canyon which we knew had some petroglyphs, but we'd heard can be hard to find. Pffff. We found them easily.
"Native Americans painted and chipped their religious visions, clan symbols, and records of events onto the cliffs. There are three distinct styles present which represent three separate cultures and time periods. These cultures are known to have been in the area during the past several thousand years."
