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).
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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.
