The town of Rhyolite, Nevada, which was named after the rock, was settled in 1902. Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic (silica-rich) composition (typically > 69% SiO2-see the TAS classification)…wait. Except for the sheet ghosts and giant naked Lego woman, of course. This ghost town was out in the desert of Nevada, dry and cracked, like a carcass left out for vultures and exactly the experience I was looking for. I mean, to this point I’ve seen more ghost towns than a guy who makes a living sitting in front of a computer should have, but they’ve been mostly clumps of stone cellars or ramshackle wooden buildings in forests. We were pulling into my first Old West ghost town. January’s a good time to be in the desert. ApThe road in front of us was dusty, the hills surrounding us shades of beige and brown.
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