Douglas, Arizona

 

We have repositioned to Douglas, AZ, where we are staying at the Hidden Treasures RV Park until Monday, then on to Deming, NM. The RV park is within a gated community right on the Douglas golf course.

Adventures on Horseback

 

Today, while everyone around the country was freezing their buns off, Ginny and I went horseback riding here in Tombstone with Tombstone Adventures on Horseback.

 

Mescal Movie Set

 

Today, Ginny and I went to the Mescal Movie Set outside of Bensen, AZ, where they were commemorating the 50th-year release of the 1972 movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, filmed there with a special event that includes a Meet and Greets with Steve "Bunker" deFrance, who was Paul Newman's stand-in in the movie and with Francesca Jarvis who was one of the hookers in the movie. Bunker is a veteran actor who appeared in numerous western films, including Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and over 50 episodes of The High Chaparral. Jarvis was one of the nuns in The Lilies of the Field with Sydney Poitier.

Street of the Mescal Movie Set

Ginny under the OK Corral sign from the 1993 movie Tombstone

Ginny standing at the swinging doors of the Redemption Saloon
from the 1995 movie, The Quick and the Dead

Ginny getting autographs from legendary Western movie actors
Steve "Bunker" deFrance and Francesca Jarvis

Tombstone's Annual Christmas Ball

 

Ginny and I attended Tombstone's Annual Christmas Ball wearing 1880s-period clothing.

Tombstone, Arizone

 

Today, Ginny and I finished our month-long journey to Tombstone, Arizona, where we will stay for a month at the Tombstone RV Park & Campground. The forecast today in Tombstone is: Partly to mostly cloudy. High near 70°. Winds South at 10 to 15 mph.

Pima Air & Space Museum

 

The weather forecast for Tucson today is: Partly cloudy. High 77°. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. On this beautiful day, Ginny and I visited the Pima Air & Space Museum, one of the world's largest non-government-funded aerospace museums. The museum features a display of nearly 400 aircraft spread out over 80 acres on a campus occupying 127 acres.

Tucson, Arizona

 

Ginny and I continued our travels today, stopping at the Rincon Country East RV Resort in Tucson, Arizona. We'll stay here for two nights before continuing our journey to Tombstone. While in Tucson, we will visit the Pima Air & Space Museum, one of the world's largest non-government-funded aerospace museums.

Camp Verde, Arizona

 

We left Williams today and started heading south to warmer temperatures. Our next stop was the Verde Ranch RV Resort in Camp Verde, Arizona. We'll spend one night here before heading towards Tucson, Arizona, for a couple of days.

Grand Canyon Deer Farm

 

Today, Ginny and I took a side trip to the Grand Canyon Deer Farm.

Grand Canyon National Park

 

Today, Ginny and I took the Grand Canyon Railway to where millions had walked before us and dined where presidents have dined. The Grand Canyon National Park.

Williams, Arizona

 

Ginny and I continued our journey today to Williams, Arizona, The Gateway to the Grand Canyon. We stayed at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park until Monday, November 28th. While there, tomorrow, we will catch the train, where we'll ride in the dome car to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. While at the Grand Canyon, we'll take a bus tour of the South Rim and dine at the El Tovar Dining Room located in the historic El Tovar Hotel, where guests such as Teddy Roosevelt, President Bill Clinton, and Sir Paul McCartney have dined and shared stories within their walls.

Standing on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona

 

Today, Ginny was seen standing on the corner watching all the guys go by in Winslow, Arizona.

Barringer Meteor Crater

 

Today, Ginny and I toured the Barringer Meteor Crater. The Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of 5,640 ft above sea level. It is about 3,900 ft in diameter and some 560 ft deep. The crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA astronauts trained in the crater to prepare for the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Homolovi Ruins State Park

 

In the high grassland of 14th-century northern Arizona, an ancient people found a home along the Little Colorado River. These people, the Hisat'sinom (known to archaeologists as the Anasazi), paused in their migrations to till the rich flood plain and sandy slopes before continuing north to join people already living on the mesas, people who are today known as the Hopi.

Today, Ginny and I repositioned our RV to this land, two miles northeast of the city of Winslow, Arizona, at the Homolovi Ruins State Park. We will be here until this coming Friday, November 25th. While here, we will explore the Homolovi Ancestral Pueblo and the Meteor Crater. While in Winslow, we will also go look for a man standing on the corner.

 

“Homolovi” is Hopi for “Place of the Little Hills” — the traditional name for Winslow, Arizona.

Petrified Forest National Park

 

Today, Ginny and I explored the Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles, encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe and highly eroded and colorful badlands. The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, significantly fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. The park’s earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago.

The Painted Desert are colorful badlands that meet the Mother Road (Route 66) in Arizona’s high desert. Looking like pastel mounds of Neapolitan ice cream, Northern Arizona’s Painted Desert is a vast, striated badlands that extends some 150 miles from the eastern end of the Grand Canyon into Petrified Forest National Park. A geologist’s other-worldly paradise, the colorful hills, flat-topped mesas, and sculptured buttes of the Painted Desert are primarily made up of the Chinle Formation, mainly river-related deposits dating back some 200 million years. Inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years, the multi-hued sweep of pigmented rock in the high arid desert. The Painted Desert was named by a Spanish expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado during his 1540 quest to find the Seven Cities of Cibola. Passing through the wonderland of colors, they named the area El Desierto Pintado (“The Painted Desert”).

Holbrook, AZ

 

We were on the road at 9:00 this morning on our way to Holbrook, AZ, where we are staying at the OK RV Park. While here, we will visit the nearby Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert.

Tombstone, Arizona

2449 miles after leaving home three weeks ago we finely made it to Tombstone, Arizona where we will be for most of the winter at the Tombstone RV Park.

Tombstone RV Park

Grand Canyon Deer Farm

Today's adventure was to the Grand Canyon Deer Farm.

Grand Canyon National Park

Ride the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams, AZ to the Grand Canyon.

We had a seat in a dome car on our way to the canyon.

View of the train from our seat.

Nancy's first time seeing the Grand Canyon. She said it was so surreal. She never thought she would ever see the Grand Canyon.

 

Got to have a selfie of us with the Grand Canyon in the background.

What's a train ride out into the Wild West without an old fashion train robbery.