Tombstone - 10/4/11

What a great day we had today.  We drove to Tombstone after that we went to Sierra Vista.  We had alot of fun in Tombstone and Sierra Vista is a great place.  Tons of shopping there.  On the way home we had some great clouds and even a rainbow.

We're getting acquainted with Benson

Benson is the closest town to the caverns.  It's about 10 miles away.  There is a Wal Mart there and and a Safeway and ACE Hardware.  Dale has already found a barber.  I'm trying to let my hair grow.

The Visitor Center is an old Train Depot.  We got some information there today.  Looks like we'll have some interesting places to visit.  Tombstone for one.   I'll continue to share our adventures once we start visiting some of these great places

Kartchner's Caverns....First Day On The Job

We started our first day at Kartchner's today.  We each trailed on 2 tours. As a trailer you follow at the back to make sure no one is getting light headed and they don't  get too far behind.  The tour takes about 1 1/2 hours.  The cave is right at 70 degrees with 99% humidity.  It's considered a living cave.  Plenty of water dripping to make formations for the future generations.  So I'm thinking 4 hours of walking through caves everyday should help me lose some weight.  We both took a nap this afternoon when we got home, though.  I guess we were more whipped then we had thought.  Tomorrow we do the same thing.  Then we'll be off Mon - Wed.  I think we're going to like it here.  The weather is very comfortable.  It's been right at 90 every day since we've been here....but very dry.  The humidity is only 29%. 

We're in Arizona, arrived Wednesday Sept 28th

We made good time.  We left Jefferson City, MO on Monday 9/26 at 9:00am.  We made it as far as El Reno, OK the first night.  That's just west of Oklahoma City by about 20 miles.  Then on Tuesday we got as far as Albequerque. On Wednesday we drove on to Benson, AZ and got to Kartchner's Caverns about 3:45p.  Not without an issue, however.  If you'll remember on our way to Minnesota back in May we about lost our bikes off the back of our 5th wheel in Des Moines.  Well.....we made it all the way to Benson and just as we were getting ready to take the exit off the highway Dale noticed the bikes were coming loose.  We didn't have a good place to pull over so we were just saying our prayers that  the bikes didn't fall off and  do damage to vehicles behind us.  God was smiling on us.  After exiting we pulled off on the shoulder and Dale went to access the problem.  Well much to his surprise the whole ladder was about to fall off...it was just hanging on by one little screw, flopping back and forth with the bikes on it.  So we took off the bikes and the ladder and put them inside the trailer so we could drive the remaining 10 miles up to the caverns.  We managed to drive 1385 miles with no problems.  I guess we were very lucky.  So we've decided to get a new ladder and give the bikes to Goodwill.  They have been nothing but trouble and we've only used them once or twice.  I guess they are just too heavy for that ladder.