Tombstone, AZ to Silver City, NM

Feb 19 – Cool and clear this morning, so we drove the mile back into Tombstone.  We arrived around 9. Sunday morning and it looks like everyone must be down at the Cowboy Church.  Nothing really started today until around 11 and we are hoping to hit the road by 10.  We walked down to Old Tombstone which is a re-creation of an old west town. Looks like they put on shows for the tourists later on in the year.  But it was a cool set.

Walked over to the Tombstone Courthouse which was built in 1882. The year after the shootout at OK corral. 

Drove out of town and down to Bisbee, AZ. This is an old mining town. We passed the town and came upon the site of an open pit copper mine.  They moved a lot of earth to get the copper. 

Drove on to Douglas, AZ which is a border town with Mexico.  I could not see a WALL, but border patrol was everywhere.  We could see the border crossing via car from a block away.  But having no interest in going to Mexico this trip because of so many bad hombres, we headed for Walmart. We found the Walmart just a stone’s throw from the border. Picked up our few groceries and headed north.  The rain kept following us.  We saw some amazing clouds and drove threw some hellacious rain storms. And by we, I mean Jim.

We crossed from AZ into New Mexico and drove to Silver City, NM.  We found the visitor’s center. But since it is Sunday, it was closed.  But outside was a replica of a cabin used on a movie set.  The site claims that Billy the Kid was raised on the site where the cabin now sits.  The cabin he lived in was destroyed in a flood. He apparently lived here a couple of years before getting into all that trouble with the law, ie., killing people.

We found a KOA campground nearby and are staying in Silver City.  Hopefully, we can look around some more tomorrow before heading north to Albuquerque!