Hereford & the Dragoon Mountains

 This was Sie-by-Side day.  Two seat ATV or OHVas they cal them, Off Highway Vehicle, although you can register them for use on the highway too here in AZ.  Guy & Elaine have one and their friend Chuck also has one.  So Guy & Chuck brought theirs on trailers over to Tombstone and on east to the Dragoon Mountains and Cochise’s hiding place.  We took an old road up through a cut in the rock and then farther up to an old mine.  Then back down and around to a petroglyph area.

Then a relaxing evening on the porch with Guy & Elaine.  Good Guy & Miss Lainey for you cowboys.

This has been a great few days here.  It is always a sad day for us when we leave Arizona.  We have 3 weeks to get to SC.  That’s a nice leisurely pace.  We want to spend a bit og time in Fredericksburg TX on the way.  We have driven through a couple times and it looks interesting so we’ll check it out.  And maybe spend some time in NM too.

For a drone flyover video of the first road we took:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mHB5LdtL784&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD

It’s open range so finding horses roaming free isn’t odd here

For the first part I rode with Guy and Carlene rode with Chuck

And up we go

This is the “Gateway to West Cochise Stronghold”

A side road to an old mine

The road was more washed out than the last time the guys came up here

Preparing to change a flat tire

Going back down was fun too!

At the mine

Looking out toward Tombstone

Fort Huachuca at the base of the far mountains

Headed over to the petroglyphs 

In a cave-like meeting room among the rocks

A milling hole, this one even had seeds in it!

Skye stayed home with Elaine

She had a good day, went for a walk, played with a neighbor dog, kept tabs on Elaine’s chickens

She was pooped by the end of the day

The dark line at the bottom is the Mexican border wall

Hereford & Bisbee

 Made a quick trip to get propane, then the four of us went out to see the local shooting range. It’s a nice layout with several bays for rifle and pistol and a shotgun section with three skeet fields and two trap fields. 

That was on the way to Bisbee where we had lunch and a tour of local sights.  Carlene and I have been to Bisbee a few times but today we saw several parts of town that were new to us.  We saw the area of Bisbee that was the miners residences from older times, some of the big houses that were/are the mine owners homes.  

The in the next town of Lowell there is a street where all the buildings are owned by a man restoring the place to it’s 1950s look.  Complete with period cars and trucks parked along the street.  In Warren they have a 1909 vintage baseball field.  They even have ball games played with the vintage uniforms.  There are now two women’s teams participating in the vintage games.  The next are three weeks away, so we won’t see them.

On th way back we could see a lot of smoke coming from a brush fire.  This wildfire was heading NE, which is good because the house is NW of there.  Roads were blocked off and emergency warnings to prepare to evacuate certain areas.  We did not hear of any actual evacuation.  By supper time there was a lot less smoke in the air.  We did pack up a bit and move the truck into position just in case the wind changed.  It stayed a long way from us.

A colorful section of Bisbee 

Vintage Warren

Japanese Jasmine 

Desert Marigold

Tree Tobacco 

Sunset

Huachuca Mountains

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