Vacation part 4--Ashton Timms

This is part four out of eight on my family vacation blogs. So we arrived at Silverton late afternoon and got a hotel room at one of the 3 hotels there. We stayed on the second floor. It was all stairs. Absolutely nothing modernized, not even plug-ins but 2 in each room for the lamps. The lady at the front desk even told us she goes home around 9:00pm and no one takes her place, that the crime rate is so low, they just leave the doors unlocked everywhere at night, and leave a note with a number on it in case you need something for your room. We actually were at such high elevation we were light headed and our noses were bleeding. They said it takes about 6 months to adjust to the elevation if you were to move there. The buildings were about 10 feet apart. There were 2 coffee shops, 3 hotels, 1 first responder police/fire/ambulance building in one, there was about 4 restaurants, 11 gift shops, and just little things here and there. My family did a stagecoach ride that next morning and it was so safe there that the driver had a tin tied to a post with about $500 or so inside and he just left it there not supervised while he rode people around and no one messed with it. The houses there were like tiny houses with no land but cost $400,00 to own. There was a small cemetery up on the hill a little bit with about 35 graves from people who passed away there. My father loved it there and it reminded him of when he was little. There was an old arcade and a little mining area. About an hour from Silverton there were mine cart tours and even real mining going on around the area. It was probably the most chilly day we had on our vacation. We even met a lady with an incredible story. She was traveling alone and we thought that was super brave of her so we asked her if she travels often. She explained that she was a pilot when she was younger and she had a plane accident. She flew a commercial plane (which is like a one or two person plane) and her engine started going out so she got on the intercom and said she needed emergency landing. The next landing area was too far for her to make it so they planned for her to land in a field. However she couldn’t make it to the field so she had to land on the highway in Atlanta,Georgia. She landed in the middle of traffic but sadly she hit one car and it flipped and blew up killing the driver inside. However incredibly she survived. She had 3rd degree burns all over her body and she said the door to the plane was so hot she felt it burning her to get out but if she wouldn’t have pushed through the pain she would have burned up alive.