parallel-universe-old-west-ghost-town

I think this is some crazy shit. Last weekend the fam was here...And if my dad said once, he said it at least a million times that he wanted to drive out "into the mountains." Yeah, no offense, I'll always be a Northern Idaho girl...there are no mountains down here, at least not many with trees! Anyways, we indulged him, and headed east (I know...east?!?!) Yeah, well there are some trees out there beyond Boise and so that was all grand and good. I don't know how far we went...like 35 miles or something and we stumble into this parallel-universe-old-west-ghost-town IDAHO CITY. City? Ummm..fuck no. This place is country like I've never seen...and I'm a north idaho girl. So there's cowboys and a saloon and a place to park your horses, where honest to God... somebody had parked their horse. Okay, so we walk around this town for a bit...check out all the wild west paraphanalia...get a DP @ Calamity Jane's (yes, the only place that sold Dr. Pepper was a restaurant and I use that term loosely that had tree stumps as stools!) and then we leave. I swear. We left, no sudden movements, nothing suspicious. Fast forward...the next day we see on the news the forest fire raging near Idaho City they've dubbed THE GREGORY FIRE! WTF. Seriously WTF! I know we must have made an impression, what with our new-fangled automobile, and those little cell phones, taking photographs, gee golly! But shit, THE GREGORY FIRE. That's just the coolest thing that's happened in Idaho City, ever!