As we drive through central Oregon, I think about living simply and the very basic lifestyle of people living here. We just went through a "living ghost town" called Shaniko which boasts 37 people living there. The few store fronts really looked like those in an old western movie. Before and after the town there is NOTHING but plains and some wheat fields for miles and miles and miles.
Their website says: " Living "far out" in Shaniko’s delivers an unusual, unique, and historic experience. A former shop owner once said, "Shaniko is a place to do nothing." Another good description for a visit here is "Relax, Retreat, and Remember".It used to be the biggest inland wool shipping center in the world in 1903 when there was a railroad here.
Now as I drive by I ponder what happened? What do the people do there now as nothing is nearby, meditate? Are they at peace? ..well the town of Grass Valley is the nearest I have found so far (pop.164) and that is about 30 miles away. They boast the tallest rye grass...there was even a report that the grass was once "over a mans head and he was on a horse"! No stores around , except abandoned ones for miles and miles. I would like to learn how they live their lives....
This is on the edge of these towns:
Hmmm, I just think I am truly ready for Coeur D'Alene:)
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