Day 21 Monday February 2, 2009

It was a beautiful sunny day, again, but breezy and not as warm as we had hoped. The temperature was low enough during the night to freeze the water hose but when that happens we just turn on the pump for our on-board water supply and draw from it until the hose thaws out. One night in Las Cruces, I brought the hose in doors to keep it from freezing, but that was too much of a mess to do every night.
I made some muffins for breakfast; I thought running the oven for awhile would be just what we needed and it worked fine. Unfortunately the oven is on the hot side and some of the muffins burned on the bottom – but still highly edible! About 11am we headed for Tombstone, it was only supposed to be 25 miles but the way we went it turned out to be about 35 miles; we managed to do that without the GPS, although my opinion of the GPS is that its route is usually 10% farther. We parked near the OK Corral and walked around till we found the place where the OK Corral Gunfight Reenactment takes place. They have a museum there as well as a 25 minute documentary film about Tombstone and its history. The reenactment was well done and gave both sides of the story; the Earps didn’t come off looking like heroes in my opinion.
By the time we got out of there we were ready for lunch, but it seemed that the only open lunch places were on the historic street which is all pedestrian and Cathey was done walking for the day. We waited until we got back to Benson and had lunch at a Mexican fast food place and it was not a memorable meal.