my second day in Tincup

if you click a pic today, the pics won't just go away, they'll get bigger for you to see without your glasses just like me.

The road to Tincup.

I always get messed up when I take these mini-vacations because I can never keep my stories straight. right now, I'm talking about something I did yesterday, but yesterday doesn't interest me that much since I'm always looking ahead. But now I'm sitting here trying to write something about yesterday, which doesn't seem as interesting as It did when I did it.

I would be much more interested in talking about what I did today: which was spend Saturday in Salida, Colorado, watching all the entertaining Arkansas River stuff that I thoroughly enjoyed and would be interesting to write about right now. But Noooo, I've got to talk about something that happened in the past instead of interesting stuff that happened today.

It's my fault; this happens when I'm in a new place and take more pictures than I can put on one blog post, and I've moved before I can post all the pictures. Or, like this time, my Internet was too weak to post all the images, and I ended up with many photos that have nothing to do with what I'm doing now.

But anyway, to help straighten this out, pretend today was yesterday, and I'm where I was yesterday instead of where I am today, because I'm using yesterday's pictures like there todays. Tomorrow's pictures will actually be pictures of today and not tomorrow, so don't get confused. Now that I've cleared that up, you can look at today's pictures and probably won't know what day it is.

Theboondork

The country store, with a parking lot full of ATVs.

Did I happen to mention that all-terrain vehicles,, ATVs, are the way everybody gets around Tincup?

There all lined up for breakfast at Frenchy's Café.

this is the Tincup Courthouse on weekdays, and a church on Sundays

Frenchy's Café, it's the best place to eat In Tincup.... It's the only place to eat In Tincup.

Tincups Main Street business district.

dirt bikes are another way people get around Tincup, and this is the way I used to get around Tincup. The dirt bikes don't have to be street legal around here because I'm not sure if there even legal streets around here. everybody just goes where they want as long as they watch out for the cows. This whole area is open range.

My parking spot at the Tincup cemetery. The cemetery is only about a mile off the main road, but it was a lot more beat up, and a lot narrower that I remember in the past.

there's a couple of creeks running around the hills that the cemeteries on so the town built a boardwalk to get across the wet areas.

The town takes care of the cemetery, not only because it's old, but because folks are still being buried here. Although I don't know how they get here on that beat up road unless they carry you up here on an ATV.

I've always thought that the Tincup Cemetery has the best view of Any Cemetery you could find.

it bothers me when poor folks can't afford A stone headstone, wood just doesn't last very long before it becomes illegible.

This wooden headstone shows the name, but the dates have disappeared.

My boondocking spot last night. it had pretty good Internet right here.