Mokelumne Hill, California is an example of a small remote gold town that is still transitioning and finding its 21st century self. While it does so I enjoyed the heck out of exploring its main street and the details of all its strange and wonderful architecture. I have driven through this town hundreds of times. My parents used to love doing the exact same thing taking us kids for a drive through the gold country. This is the first time I got out with my camera and focused on the details. I probably got a few strange looks from people drinking in the local bar but they shrugged their shoulders and went about their business.
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Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 
Great captures of the past.The old Dodge may say it best. Curious about the inlaid skull. I wonder if it is a modern addition? –Curt
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I would assume so. It looks like it belongs more in Mexico. It was attached to a restaurant bar so it was probably there for fun. It doesn’t look terribly old to me either. But, it was strange and interesting.
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My thoughts exactly. But I would be right there photographing it with you. 🙂
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Wow, what a time warp! Amazing!
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Thanks! Must look pretty foreign to you! 😉
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Oh yeah! But Gold Country is on my bucket list.
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Look me up if you ever come out West!
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Will do!
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I’ve never visited a proper gold town. I’ve visited Sacramento but I’m not sure it counts 😀
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Old Town Sacramento or Sutter’s Fort counts but it is surrounded by the CITY so it doesn’t quite feel the same.
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No.. I would like to visit a ghost town and something really remote to get that feeling 🙂
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Body is a great ghost town. I have some good photos from there that I will have to post some day. 🙂
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We should have gone to body when we went to Yosemite… but we chose to go to Sequoia NP instead… and drove on the other side of the mountain 😦 It’s one of the regret of that trip
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What you saw was probably better anyway. Bodie is pretty out of the way. 🙂 Always have to leave something to see for next time.
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http://www.bodie.com/
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Details are the backbone. Of fiction, of photography. Yours are very good. Love the Dodge truck. Looking at the windhsield, looks like the driver was shot in the head… And the “calavera”? looks like a mexican tzompantli… Thanks for the ride, Padner… 😉
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Glad you enjoyed it and it invoked fiction for you! Seems like a great place to imagine a story or tell some non fiction!
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Details are key. “She had porcelain-blue eyes. So clear that you could almost see through her soul, and so clear that she was a hopeless, lousy poker player.” 🙂
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Love it
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Thank you. Here’s another: “Her hair was a mess, she rode a Triumph TR3, with the top down. Always.”
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Ha. That’s funny! Yes I do but only because there is NO TOP! 😉
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I know. 🙂
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