A semi-ghost town

We'd been wondering what semi-ghost town meant, and then we found one.

San Lorenzo

As with most ghost towns that have survived into the 21st century, the original town location and the semi-ghost town location are in 2 different places, making reading the map very difficult as the map only locates the new town.


Usually the two towns are close together but there are no signs or directions so you drive around looking for old buildings, which isn't a bad pursuit.

I was FASCINATED by this little town. It's basically a series of houses up and down a road right off the highway with a multitude of old buildings interspersed by newer ones. They never demolished the old buildings, they just built new ones alongside them. So you see 19th, 20th and 21st century structures all in one location.

Or in this case, all in one building.

Here they attached new adobe to the old adobe, decided to paint the new adobe, but not the old adobe, and what you can't see in the picture is a satellite dish right off their driveway.

Viva New Mexico!