When I was growing up, we would go on weekend road trips in good weather, just driving around exploring. My parents loved doing this. My dad liked to drive and my mom liked to wander through ghost towns and old cemeteries. We would take fishing poles just in case there was a creek wherever we ended up. There are many old abandoned ghost towns in Montana, places where we also would pan gold in the streams, look for sapphires or agates, garnets, rocks, fossils, other old artifacts. I have photos of myself as a child standing among old over-grown tombstones and weathered wooden crosses.