Fort Huachuca Museums

September 30th Bill and I drove out to Ft. Huachuca to visit its museums. It was interesting to watch Bill; this is a place he knows well as he was stationed here for several years. We drove around post and he was amazed at how much had changed, the buildings that he used to teach in no longer exist and there are new buildings all over the place. We drove around for awhile and he played tour guide, showing me all the stuff that he used to know, and explaining where things used to be that weren’t there anymore and pointing out all the new stuff and being amazed. He didn’t think it a bad change, but was glad to see that they were working at improving the place.

The museums are pretty cool they are all volunteer operated. When you walk through the main building of the Ft Huachuca Museum, there are points that are either motion or pressure detecting because you’ll walk into a part and it starts talking to you. The first time it happened to me after the entrance I just about jumped out of my skin. The museums tell an interesting story; Ft Huachuca is an amazing place that holds a lot of American history. We didn’t take any pictures in the Annex as they have a sign letting you know that the lighting is dim because of some original documents and whatnot that are on display. We also didn’t take pictures in the Intelligence Museum. All in all it was a fun day just tooling around the Fort with Bill. Afterwards we went to a park in town and just hung out while he reminisced about when he lived there.

On October 1st, we went to the Art in the Park, art festival in Sierra Vista. It was much like any art festival, we did a quick lap of all the vendors, decided not to try to eat there since it was in the upper 90s and I wasn’t excited about trying to balance food while standing, eating, and attracting bugs, so we left. Sunday the 2nd was a laundry and relax day. Monday we cleaned up and got ready to move, we haven’t left the area but on Tuesday the 4th we packed up and moved to a park that doesn’t sit next to the BNSF. So, I slept well last night, better than I have in days, but now our internet is not working…if it’s not one thing, it’s another. Hopefully we’ll get the internet fixed, we have to call the provider, and all will be well in our world again…here’s hoping!

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PS - Things I forgot to post about: I saw a real roadrunner for the first time in New Mexico and have seen a couple others since. They are pretty funny, and very fast! Also, we were driving down a road here in AZ, out in the middle of the desert, not a well traveled road and saw so many tarantulas and scorpions crossing the road that we had to keep swerving to avoid hitting them. They were crossing in groups of 15-20, it was incredible to see bugs so big that you could see them crawling while driving past at 60 miles an hour.

Benson and Then Some

All right, so I’ve been a bit busy the last few days and haven’t updated. So here we go. We left Las Cruces, NM on Tuesday the 27th of September and arrived in Benson, AZ later that afternoon. Setting up was a bit problematic for us, and everything that could have gone wrong did. I guess it’s to be expected that you’ll have days like that but it still sucks. It was stinking hot, well into the upper 90s, no shade, and we couldn’t get the damn RV level. We were listing to one side by about 3+ inches. So, Bill took off to find somewhere that carried leveling blocks because we didn’t have enough of them. He came back awhile later with the largest set of leveling blocks you can buy. By this time we were really crabby, really hot, rather sweaty, and snipping at each other. We hitched back up rolled the RV onto the leveling blocks and we were good, except that our water hose wasn’t long enough….of course. It made it from the RV to the spicket, but was not touching the ground and ended up bending the end that goes into the RV, so we’ve had to buy another hose….of course! Fabulous, several more lessons learned! All that aside we thought everything would be fine now that we were set up, until we went to bed that night and realized that the BNSF runs practically through our bedroom, every 20min, ALL night long. Boy do they like to lay on the whistles! So, Bill only got about 3 hours sleep that night, which made him Prince Charming the next day. I of course of was Little Miss Perfect to Get Along With as well.

Ok, enough of that, it’s in the past. The first day we were here we spent cleaning and straightening the RV, inside and out. Not terribly eventful. Thursday the 29th we went into Tombstone, and that was eventful and a lot of fun. It’s really awesome to see how they’ve kept so many of the buildings the same as they were in the 1800s. You can go into them and see how old they really are, these aren’t buildings that have been restored with new materials (well maybe in places), and these are the original materials from the 1800s. Probably the best place to see this is in the Birdcage Theatre. Here they have set it up as a museum and kept as much as possible the same. They have covered the walls with glass or Plexiglas to preserve what’s left of the wood and wallpaper. It’s really incredible, if these walls could talk.

Bill and I did the touristy thing and watched the Gun Fight at the OK Corral. It was fun, they shoot blanks, but it’s still loud and I jumped several times. The museums they have that explain the history of Tombstone are well worth a look also, if you make it there. We are hoping to still be in the area or Helldorado Days happening mid to late October.

That about wraps it up for Tombstone; you really have to experience it. A lot of the shopkeepers dress in period clothing and it’s hard not to get caught up in it all. It’s hard to not want to get all dressed up and play along, or maybe I’m just that brand of geek.

One last thing, leave it to Bill to find something to do with Football in Tombstone.

Hugs till next time~
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