Tombstone!!

Goodbye, Pacific Ocean. We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day...


Well, we left Mexico a bit early. Mexico was great, but everything else in Mexico that we are interested in would have required at least an additional two solid weeks of driving, and we just didn't want to sacrifice that kind of time. We think we will fly back in a few years and visit one or two carefully chosen spots in the southern region of the country.

Also, our poor truck and Boler were taking a beating on pot-holes and giant mutant killer speed-bumps from outer space that have only invaded Mexico. We actually broke a few things during our drive to the border, which confirmed that we'd made the right decision. We've got thousands of miles to go; can't do it with busted equipment!

Anyway, We are now in Tombstone, Arizona. What a cool town. It reminds me very much of Dawson City, Yukon. Does that sound weird? It's true.


This is a western town with wooden boardwalks and old-fashioned building facades and neat saloons. We saw "Texas Kate" do a wild-west show full of dog and horse tricks, and the awesome thing is, all the dogs, horses, donkeys, and goats in her show are rescue animals!


She highlighted animal rescue a lot in her show - it made us happy. The horse she's riding on was actually sold, emaciated and miserable, to a slaughterhouse. A friend of hers bought it from the slaughter people and now it's a trick-riding horse! Hooray!


We also saw Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and all those guys shoot each other. Cool.





Near the end of the day we saw a poster for a blood donation clinic and, not having anything better to do, we went. I got nixed because of my newest tattoos so it was Mark that got bled. Spectacularly! The girl accidentally sent his blood shooting into the air when she poked his vein with the needle, and it came down all over his clothes. Woops! She gave him a free t-shirt, and now he can say he shed blood in Tombstone. (Don't click on the picture unless you want to see some of the blood close-up.)

Tomorrow the plan is to go to Roswell, New Mexico and get abducted by aliens. Should be fun. Wish us luck.