Lovin My Trucker: Tombstone 🤠🐎

Today we travelled across the dessert Southwest. Wow, I did not know just how beautiful that part of the United States was. God just keeps showing His omnipotence to me.

Crossing Arizona and New Mexico had so many beautiful sites, there are too many to post pictures of. I really liked seeing all the vast amounts of veggitation that I don't see in Kansas or Missouri. Desert sand spread out for miles, sprinkled with several types of cacti, such as Saguaro, teddy bear, and hedgehog. The scene brought me back to those old western movies, where the guy is crawling in the desert, looking for water and of course there is a sidewinder slithering up to bite him.

OOOPS, I got a little side tracked there. My favorite cactus were the flat pancake-shaped cactus, called Opuntia. This cactus is also known as The Prickly Pear cactus. I didn't get a good picture of those.

Sanguaro

Half way across Arizona, Mark told me to pick a.point of interest I wanted to see. Noting that Tombstone, Az. was only 24 miles from our landing spot of Benson, Az., I decided that we should go have dinner at Big Nose Kate's Saloon. We pulled into the truck stop, unhooked the trailer, and headed south. Talk about fun.

The town was just what I was expecting, old, dusty street with the wooden boardwalk along each side of the street. Since the towns people do reenactments of the Shootout at the OK Corral, there were several actors dressed up as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Cowboy outlaws. You could hear the spurs of their boots hitting the wooden walkways, literally.

Most of the shops were closed, but we were able to check out The Bird Cage Theater, opened in 1881, and was known as the most famous honky tonks in America between 1881 and 1889. The New York Times referred to it in 1882 as the wildeat, wickedest night spot between Basin St and the Barbary Coast. It was the scene of 16 gun fights, and its walls, riddled with 140 bullet holes show evidence of these happenings.

Dinner at Big Nosed Kate's (Holliday's girlfriend) was nothing short of entertaining. What once was The Grand Hotel, built in 1881, is now a Live music joint with great food, and exciting atmosphere, and was just the ticket for an evening out of the big red box, aka the truck.