This morning we headed to Tombstone, site of OK Corral, and home of Wyatt Earp. It was a real cowboy town, definitely well set up for the tourist.
They did reinactments of the show down at OK Corral, but you had to pay for these shows, so we just went to a bar instead. We sat at the bar for our drinks and Richard got talking to the guy beside him who happened to be the owner of the Tombstone Gazzette. He was really neat to talk to, he gave us a copy of his paper, some matchbooks with his website on them, and a US$1 commemorative coin. (I only had a NZ$2 coin to give him in return!) So we were just sitting there and they said come outside the parade is just about to start. Apparently this parade only happens once a year, and we were there for it, bizarre. The parade was celebrating the Buffalo Soldiers who were an African-American regiment of the US Army that fought against the Native Americans. The Buffalo Soldiers in the parade were all on their motorbikes, and there were a couple of other groups on bikes too. Unfortunately I only took video of the bikes, but there were other groups too, these ladies were all dressed up.
There was a band too, and I was just saying to Richard that it wasn't a parade if there wasn't bagpipes, and there was a lone bagpiper!! So it was a parade after all!!
We got the dress up photo!
Apparently the bounty is out on me, not Richard. We loved it that the props they had were JD's stuff.
Then we drove through more desert to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum south of Tucson, which was pretty cool. Along the way there, and while we were there we took a lot of photos of cactus (which reminds me of the slide show of my Nana and Poppa's flower tour of Australia!). Can't wait to show ya'll the pics.
The scenery was pretty spectacular. So different from anything in NZ.
They also had some animals in enclosures. There were a bit manky, but I suppose zoos are like that.
Too hot for the cougar to come out, about 40degrees C. (Richard - taking time to scope out the prey for later that night. Cougar time!)
Gophers didn't seem to mind the heat though. They were cute!
There were also beavers swimming around. I'm not going to write Richards comments.
Then we drove a couple of hours to the north of Phonix, where we are staying in a Motel 6. They are the cheapest motel chain, but they don't do breakfast.
Only four more sleeps until we are heading back to NZ. The time has gone so fast!
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