We left June Lake this morning to drive into Nevada, man that place is empty!! We have set up camp in the car park of the local casino in Tonopah. The road as a good one (120, which also goes over Tioga Pass, so we made good time. Good enough that we could take a side trip to Goldfield, another ghost town, more modern than Bodie, but much bigger, more than 20,000 people moved there between 1904 and 1907, they were there for the gold, when the gold ran out, so did they, so it now has a population of 250. We drove round the streets, where man of the buildings have gone. The we visited the courthouse, which was a revelation. It was amazing to see whole blocks of streets with no houses, but loads of peoples trash (like cars) lying around the place. The courthouse, jail, school, hotels, council offices are all still there, big enough to run a large town, but almost deserted.  We parked the car and had a closer look at the County Court, as we wandered round we could see the offices of the Recorder, Sheriff, D.A., Justice of the Peace. We stopped in at this little office, with its official bench and chairs for defendent etc. while we were there a lady welcomed us and showed us round the room, then got out some really old books and records to show us a little of the history, talked about the fires and the goldmines and the railways, it was fascinating. As we were standing there we started to realise that this was indeed the Justice Of the Peace for the town. we had an interesting conversation about her job, as she has to stand for re-election in November, but only needs a couple of hundred votes to keep the job. She was a very pleasant and helpful lady, so go Judge Juanita Colvin, we hope you get re-elected.We drove back to Tonopah and had a quiet evening. Tomorrow we plan to drive the Extraterrestial Highway, through area 51 and by the Nellis airbase.