We did make it back up the hill to see the famous Virginia City of the old west, but before we got there we went into Fallon to visit their museum. It was like stepping back into the past and living as someone who lived in Fallon from the late 1800’s on to today. I almost expected to see something about Ernie and Sheila in there (the newer items anyway…). It was a very nice museum and well taken care of. They should be proud. Then we were off to back track from our trip last night. As I mentioned earlier, Virginia City is about an hours drive from Fallon, so seeing as we had visited the museum and driven for another hour, it was lunch time when we got there. First and foremost I wanted to eat. We found a parking place right at the beginning of town and then proceeded to walk the wood plank sidewalks in search of “just the right restaurant”. After walking ¾ of one side of the town we found that right spot to eat. It was in a bar that had some tables set aside for those that really wanted to eat, and that was us… Either the food was really good or it was that we were really hungry…we ate just about everything (we left about 2/3 the fries…aren’t we good???). Now we could go out and enjoy the sites of Virginia City. At one time there was over 30,000 people, more than 100 saloons, a very few churches, and many, many mines. The Comstock Lode had been one of those mines that made good, shall we say $234 million good ??? Mark Twain was also one of those that made a mark here. He started out in Virginia City as a reporter for one of the local newspapers (one of the newspapers in Virginia City was the first newspaper in the state of Nevada). From a newspaper reporter that no one would have remembered to one of the most read non-fiction writers of his day…