Tombstone, AZ

Whilst traveling back from Sierra Vista to Mesa we took a side trip to Tombstone.

cs and Bird weren't as thrilled about that as me. (I'm not certain about c8, she didn't express her opinion vocally.)

25 years ago while visiting Grandma Rose and Grandpa Alfred, cs and I stopped by The town too tough to die. It was like going to Disneyland the very first time. (In fact, it was much, much better — I was 22 the first time I went to Disneyland.)



I got to walk the streets walked by Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and see Boot Hill, the Crystal Palace saloon, the Bird Cage theatre, and the O.K. Corral in person. As a youngster, all I watched on TV were cowboy shows — Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, and the greatest of them all — Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.


Wyatt Earp was my childhood hero. (He was the Hannah Montana of my boyhood.)

This time around it wasn't quite the same (you can never go back.) I saw it more as it actually was — a tourist trap — instead of through the eyes of a seven or eight year old boy reliving his childhood dream, his boyhood fantasy. (Disneyland was never quite as fun the second time either.)


We wandered up and down the street going through the souvenir shops. One memorable plaque: What happens in Tombstone stays in Boot Hill.


Memorable cs quote: Do you think that they have a brighter sun down here than we do back home?