December 3, 2025

Train Ride to Crazy Town
Chloride, Arizona
2025

When I was in the hospital at the Mayo Clinic for six months, about half that time I was delirious and often suffered very realistic hallucinations. Or  in short I called it spending time in Crazy Town. Some of the scenes I experienced seemed like normal situations until I thought about them more and they became anything but normal. This photo is a benign example–it looks like an old gas station (and likely was) but the gas pumps are for three different brands of gasoline. And of course there’s the railroad running so close to the pumps you’d be hard pressed to drive a car on the front side of the pumps. Knowing that Chloride, Arizona contains a lot of odd collections of antiques makes this scene seem understandable and not particularly weird to me. That was not the same for some of my adventures in Crazy Town. One instance of my delusional state even involved being on a railroad of sorts and that train ride was not benign or pleasant at all. My advice: stay away from Crazy Time.