Sun. Nov. 14th 2010, Tombstone AZ

Join us as we travel North America in our Holiday Rambler Vacationer, 

 since August 2006

      Yep we have gone back again to Tombstone for another walkabout of this historic town out of the old west. Probably about our 8th visit here. It is a small town and a tourist trap thingy, but with all of the cowboy stories and movies made with Wyatt Erp,  Doc Holiday and his girlfriend Big Nosed Kate the shoot out at the OK Coral and Tombstones own Boot Hill cemetery  the tv shows and the movie Tombstone 1993 its kinda fun to feel like you are in back in those days. We can wander the streets, and people watch and even chat with characters dressed as cowboys, ladys of the night, the horses, stage coaches, gunfights, interesting saloons and restaurants always something see and to do. Lots of stores, souvenir shops, western clothing shops the wooden board walk, it kinda brings back memories of the wild west and the cowboy stories from way back.

      Everytime we go we will usually do something a little different. This time we stopped at Big Nose Kates Saloon (thats not different we usually stop there) for lunch. Indulged in their fantastic overstuffed Rueben Sandwich just piled high with lean corned beef, sauerkraut and swiss cheese on toasted rye bread , french fries and of coarse a huge dill pickle wedge, washed down with a glass of Fat Tire Ale on tap.

      Now after lunch we walked about the shops for a while and decided to take a tour of the Good Enough Mine (this is the different thing we did) where Ed Schieffelin filed his claim in 1877. This has only recently been opened to the public, but our tour guide Sean gave a great narrated tour about 90 minutes long down 100 feet below the streets of Tombstone. Showing how the miners were able to work this mine totally by hand originally, and the working conditions that they had. It was the over 19 mines here that made Tombstone such a thriving city around 1882 with all the saloons, gambling establishments and brothels there was a population well over 2,000 not counting  women, children or foreigners. Now the foreigners were the large population of chinese and miners from England. A little more history of Tombstone can be read here. After the mine tour we checked out a few more shops along Allen Street, sat of a bench to rest a bit and watched a western skit performed in the middle of the street. 


      Now with my Tombstone fix satisfied for a while, we drove back up I-80 sixteen minutes to St. David Resort, thru the border patrol checkpoint and were asked for our passports once again from homeland security. It was still nice enough to sit in the lovely afternoon sunshine to read and chat with our neighbours for a while. Until things cooled off after a beautiful Arizona sunset.Then inside to keep the chills off read a bit and a tv show, with some popcorn and apple wedges for supper tonight.

beautiful sunset

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