Willcox, AZ

We arrived into Willcox, AZ Saturday, March 7th and stayed 4 nights.  This was our first Daylight Savings time that we did not have to change clocks - "the girls" liked this as it didn't delay their feeding and treat times.

The land was pretty flat and we had lots of sagebrush that
kept collecting around our site,
(maybe there was a little help for the picture)

We had a busy three days here.  The first day we went into historic downtown Willcox and since this is where a lot of the Arizona wine makers get their grapes, we had to do a little tasting.  We tasted at three wineries.  Coronado Vineyards, Keeling Schaefer Tasting Room,  housed in the old Willcox Bank & Trust building and Zarpara Vineyard.

So much of the town is closed on Sunday, so we just walked a few blocks of the downtown area, walking by Marty Robbins Museum (first country Entertainer to receive a Grammy and a country artist I grew up with as my parent's played his music), and Rex Allen's Statute.  Many of the buildings in this town were from the 1880s and the railroad had a huge influence on the town, therefore the Historic Railroad Avenue Park is where they hold many of their festivals.

On Monday, we drove to Tombstone and walked around the town.  Many shops and tourist attractions that would have been interesting if we would have had more time.

Wyatt Earp, Deputy Marshall of Tombstone.
Took part in the gunfight at O. K. Corral.  

We then went onto Bisbee, doing lunch in the Copper Queen Hotel, which is Arizona's longest continuously operated hotel.  Pictures below are of the town of Bisbee.

Copper Queen Hotel

We had a 2:00 reservation to tour the Bisbee Queen Mine Tour.  Bisbee was once the richest mineral site in the world, mining silver and copper.  They mined from 1880 to 1970s.  Our tour took us 1500 feet into the mine.

On Tuesday, we took the motorcycle up to the Chiricahua National Monument - Land of Standing up Rocks, named by the Chiricahua Apache Indians.    We hiked a couple of trails, but just enjoyed the scenery throughout the park.  The rock formations started with the eruptions from the Turkey Creek Volcano that spread ash over 1,200 square miles, and has continued to be sculpted by the forces of nature today.

On Wednesday we went onto Tucson, Arizona where we will be for two weeks.  We drove through the Texas Canyon, which again had beautiful rock formations.