Health is Back and So is My Writing

It has been an interesting few weeks since I last posted on this site. Two weeks of Covid, a week or more of recovery, and then what we felt like was a well-deserved vacation.

Vacation - We spent some time, as always, looking at history and hiking as we traveled in the American southwest. It was a relatively quick trip, a couple of days in Santa Fe, (I love the architecture there).

Cliff Dwellings in the Gila National Forest

Then a couple more in Silver City, NM. We found the Silver City area, which we had never visited before, much to our liking.

One of the few sites where visitors can carefully walk through the dwelling area. 

After Silver City, we spent several days in and around Tucson, AZ. All and all, a fine trip, relaxing, educational, warm, and fun, but as always at our age, exhausting at times.

Unlike some petroglyphs, in the Gila Forest were simply painted on rock - no scratching or carving.

Tombstone – We spent a delightful afternoon in Tombstone. It was much like we imagined, very touristy, i.e., Keystone SD or Estes Park Colorado. We saw lots of fictional history and a bit of real history. And as everyone should when you visit Tombstone or Deadwood, we watched some excellent gunfights. It really was lots of fun!

Downtown Tombstone last week. Fairly busy for mid-week. 

Wyoming - Enough about us – did you know Wyoming’s first post office was established today in 1850. Where? Fifteen minutes down the road from where we live – it was established in Fort Laramie. Thanks to Patrick T. Holscher and his excellent book – On This Day in Wyoming History, for that bit of information.