In April 2007 we had sold our home in Michigan and moved into our new fifth wheel trailer to start our adventure of full timing and exploring in our RV. We started our blog so family and friends can track us and see what we are up to. You can double clink any picture to enlarge it.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Tombstone, "the town too tuff to die"





































Today we went for a ride, did ya see the picture of the dinosaur that ate a McDonalds? After that we went south near the Mexican border then to Tombstone. We were there 2 years ago and enjoyed the courthouse museum but the city is a tourist trap. Judy had some info on the remaining original building, the Birdcage Theater, which was built from bricks so wasn't destroyed when the rest of the wooden structures were destroyed by fire in the 1890s (Jody & Bruce....it looked A LOT older than your house!). The Bird Cage was a bar, gambling house, theater & house of ill repute.
Wyatt Earp & his brothers spent time there as did Doc Holiday who dealt
faro, his table is still there as are some of his dental tools. How about the "rental" casket used for showings then into the pine box ya went for the trip to boot hill in the hearse called Black Miarara. They had a high stakes ($1000) poker game going around the clock for 8 years. You gave them you stake and waited 3 or 4 days to sit in when another player left.
When we returned home Judy finished the laundry while I made supper then she played Mexican Train for nickles.