Tonight is our last night in Tucson. After this we spend 3 nights in New Mexico, 2 short stops in West Texas and then a week in Austin.
As you can see we took a trip to Tombstone.
Here is a few shots from there.
Unfortunately, Tombstone is too modern. All the stuff still there from cowboy days are behind walls and you need to pay an entrance fee for each of them. A few brick buildings are still standing like the Bird Cage Theatre and the city hall building. It was interesting though. The landscape around there is all flat desert and Tombstone is at the base of a couple of small hills. The desert out towards the mountains probably looks exactly like it did in the 1870's.
We went into this little store that mostly sold rocks, minerals, and fossils. Sitting in the middle of all the rocks and minerals was this.
We never did find out what a coffin was doing in the store.
One thing still alive from cowboy times is a rose tree planted in 1885. It is still alive and covers 5,000 square feet and the main trunk is 14 feet around. I didn't realize that roses could live that long.
There is another town a little farther down the road called Bisbee. It is the home of the Queen Mine, an old copper mine. They were a little richer than Tombstone so they built with bricks and a lot of the old town is still standing.
There is no flat land at all in the town. The Main Street follows a gully and you need to go over little bridges to get to other roads. They put the weight rating on each bridge and I wasn't allowed to drive over some of them. If you go Tombstone, go to Bisbee for lunch or dinner.
The Saguaro National Park is about 5 miles from the RV Park. If you like cacti, then you will love this place.
It is a pretty drive and not very long. You have to go walking on one of the trails to see most of the landscape. There are a lot of trails and at least one of them was paved.
We watched Tin Cup the other day. The movie is all about golfing in Texas, but it was filmed here in Tucson. At one of the golf courses where the filmed, they had to add a water hazard to the golf course and it is still called Tin Cup. That's your useless bit of knowledge for today.
I put a picture of the Great Horned owl that lives in the tree out front in the last blog. It has chicks that are impossible to take a picture of. Twice, I saw a chick and grabbed the closest camera and tried to take a picture. The camera's autofocus focused on the twigs in front of the nest and all I got of the chick is a white blur. Twice that happened. When I had the good camera with manual focus, the chicks stay hidden. Here is an American Goldfinch instead.
I haven't add all the photos to the Arizona page yet. I will get them out there soon.
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