Quick trip to Tombstone

Lyn, Karen and I made a quick trip south to Tombstone.  The main street is closed off for the Stage Coach and tourist to enjoy without worrying about cars.  We stopped at the Boot Hill cemetery on the way into town.  As you can see from the pictures it really is on the hill outside of town.   Looking around it is difficult to imagine what folks did for a living in that dry scrubby part of the country.   Observing the headstones in the cemetery those early 80's were difficult years. Karen and I watch a couple of gunfight re-enactments and the narrator mentioned that Tombstone had not one but three undertakers and they had about one gun fight a day.  Well folks didn't die everyday but the notations in Boot Hill listed causes including murdered, shot, hung, killed, drowned.....so they weren't dying in their sleep too often either.   I only saw one headstone for a child, a 3 month old.   I don't think Tombstone was much of a family town.

The view from Boot Hill. How much of that view hasn't changed since the 1880's?

Looking back up the hill.

The men were all getting killed. Karen found Mrs. Stump's plot. She died in childbirth.  The other two women's headstone I found both read suicide.....

Lyn waiting for us to finish reading headstones....

 

Karen's ready!

Back in the car and on into town.

Now I can't remember....did Lyn say this was or wasn't her corset?

This one is for Sharon.....

The visit did include lunch with cute young girls wearing little old fashion corsets.....but they all had enough sense to wear comfortable shoes.  

We had spotted this monastery on the drive to town. But wait.... But wait..... 

It also has Pecans and an RV park.  The bakery is open on Fridays. (That's for Nan's benefit.)

Nikki made it down from Tucson this afternoon and joined us in time for dinner and a Walmart trip.  Don't say we don't know how to have fun.   Nikki did say that one of her friends she was visiting in Tucson had actually recommended that she visit the same monastery that we had spotted. Apparently it has a beautiful chapel but she thought that the RV park was more long term seasonal folks so we didn't need to pull out of our current sites and run back down there.