Travels with Zia and Zia II: Tombstone

On Thursday, 3/26/15 we left Quail Ridge RV Park in Huachuka City and made the trip over to Tombstone for a 5 day stay. Tombstone is a favorite place of ours. We've been there a couple of times visiting Jerry & Kitty when they stayed at Stampede RV Park. Now it was our turn to stay at Stampede RV park and have friends visit us. We arrived late morning and got ourselves settled in.....

This was right down the road from us.....

And this was our spot

The Office complex

After we got ourselves settled, it was time to head up Allen St to Big Nose Kates to meet Dick & Patti for lunch. Big Nose Kates is one of our favorite places in Tombstone- great atmosphere, good entertainment, and even better food. The beer is not bad either.

Took this pic during my early morning walk. It kind of explains everything about the place.

Lunch gets pretty busy, so we had planned on meeting up around 11:30 to make sure we got a good seat......

Our friends Dick & Patti from Durango

And this was how close we sat to the entertainment

Urinal in mens room is filled with ice cubes......the sign is an interesting talking piece.

Friday was a walk-around day. The park we are in is right on Allen St and Toughnut St, so if we leave the park by one way we are on Allen St. If we use the other exit, we are on Toughnut St. Today we left and headed up Toughnut St to go to the Tombstone Courthouse which was no more than about 4 blocks away. What an interesting place. So much history.

One area that was especially interesting was the one with paintings of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Well done and told quite a story.

No tour of the courthouse would be complete with out a viewing of the back yard........

After we had spent about an hour or so(and some money in the Gift Shop), it was time to move on. We did some more wandering around the side streets of Tombstone and then decided it was time for lunch. And did we pick a winner.......

The special of the day was a Reuben with fries and cole slaw. It was excellent. We mentioned that we did some wandering around some of the side streets, here is a sampling of what we saw.....

Motorcycles, especially Harley's are a common site here

Looking up Allen St

Cycles parked at the local American Legion on Allen St.

A common site throughout the day

A Barber Shop Quartet performing in front of the Visitors Center

Saturday night was special. Every 4th saturday of the month they have Twilight in Tombstone. All of the merchants stay open later and some put on special entertainment. The merchants association sponsors reenactments on the main street(Allen Street), throughout the evening. Everyone is dressed in full regalia. We had a ball. As is evidenced by the pictures.....

The "woman" on the left was one of our neighbors at Stampede. She gets right in to the Reenactment thing. Tonight she was dressed up as a "woman of the night". The guy, is my old buddy Wyatt Earp.

Street reenactments

That's our neighbor- right into it

And a good time was had by all

Some more pics from the Twilight in Tombstone......

Another "Lady of the Night"that I talked into sitting with this couple for a picture

Made this kids day......that's my buddy Wyatt Earp the 2nd from right

At the 4 Deuces with the Stage coach Driver. What a character. Reminded me of Marty Grimes

Entertainment at the 4 Deuces - Pat & Frank. They were good.

Guitar and Harmonica were their instruments.

Doc Hollidays Saloon

And then it got to be sunday and our friends from Butterfield made the trip down to join us for lunch at Big Nose Kate's. What a great time we had.

At Big Nose Kates with from left: Bobby, Keith Dorann, Mary, Me (hiding behind Jerry), Paula, Kitty, and Jerry

Keith got volunteered to be strung up....

From Big Nose Kates we did some wandering, watched some more reenactments, the women did some shopping, and then it was time for a beer. Doc Holliday's Saloon just happened to be close by.

The gang at Doc Holliday's Saloon

And this was our bartender. What a character he was.

And then it was time for our friends to leave. This would be the last time we would be seeing them until hopefully next season. We all planned to reunite at Butterfield some time this coming winter.

And then some closing thoughts about Tombstone.

We enjoyed Moe's for breakfast. Moe is the 81+ year old owner of Stampede RV Park. They put on a pretty good breakfast each morning and how many places can you go for breakfast where you are entertained by the owners Macaw who goes by the name of Caesar. Caesar would say Hello to all and then would get unusually loud when he wasn't fed.
The 4 Deuces. We stopped there a couple of times and found we really liked the place.