November 8-9, 2006

November 8-9, 2006

In the morning we continue our journey west on I10 for some three hours. We stop at a nice campground in the town of Benson, AZ. The weather is beautiful so we sit in the sun and enjoy it.

The next day after breakfast, we drive the 25 miles south to Tombstone, AZ. The town of Tombstone sprang from the desert in 1870 after silver was found in a nearby mountain. Tombstone was a lawless town notorious for the gunfight at OK Corral between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday against some bad guys. We first stop at the old courthouse which is now a state historic site containing a museum on Tombstone’ history. We don’t feel like going thru a museum so we walk down the small town’s Old West main street. The storefronts are mostly western wear shops with a few novelty mini-museums. We eat a lunch of chili and margaritas while watching a lame bunch of actors performing a few of Tombstone’s many shootings. You are supposed to stick around for the 2pm reenactment of the OK Corral shootout but we return to Benson instead and sit by the pool. We could have passed on Tombstone and not missed much.