The Brave, the Baa-d & The Beautiful

 So I got the wild idea of finding out a haunted hotel or old west B&B to welcome in my 61st year, and remembered this old place in Ely (pronounced eeelee, not the biblical name) when I came through in March with my trailer. At that time I didn't know the hotel was haunted, because i slept in my trailer in the RV lot, but it's famously so. There was also a vintage car show happening their that weekend. And then I found out my 1st husband who I thought was in Texas lived in Ely. I hadn't seen him in almost 40 years. He was going to be in town, so I said let's meet on my birthday, and catch up on life, he said he'd take me to dinner. Not sure what to expect, but had an open mind.    This carpeting was throughout the hotel, it kind of moved if you stared too long. I was told to just take snaps of things, if the spirits are around it would show in the pic.  See anything? Not sure if I did upon arrival. I was on the top floor with a great view to the mountains, the r

 I remember the enormous size of the pontoon boats at Lee's Ferry & I was excited that even though I wasn't about to hit any whitewater, this boat ride would have a lot more pep because of riding floaty.  We got our orientation, there was 20 people going on my particular boat, and 15 of them didn't speak English very well, if not at all. Our guide had his work cut out for him. We got on the bus to board the boat at Glen Canyon dam.  The tunnel to the bottom of the dam was over 2 miles long, jet black hole with a blip of light in a small hole used to blast out debris. Not for the claustrophobic! We came out of the tunnel and the awe of the dams size bored into the cliffs was incredible. Again the danger of the low water level was explained the future of the dam was at stake.   We boarded the boat and our guide was a delightful surfer/water junkie with a great sense of humor.  His knowledge and love for the river was evident the entire tour.  The tour ran from the bottom