Tombstone Helldorado Days 10/16/09
Two airplanes containing 6 people flew in to the Sierra Vista airport on
Thursday afternoon October 16th. After picking up our rental car and
checking into our motel, we met up with charter ABSF member, Dick McColley who
now lives in Sierra Vista. We stopped by the local KFC to pick up some
take out, then proceeded to a beautiful park just a couple of blocks from our
motel and had a picnic. After the picnic we all went to Dick's house which
overlooks the area and enjoyed a glass of wine and some good conversation up on
Dick's observation deck. Dick's house sits out away from the city lights
and we were all amazed at how bright the stars were.
On Friday morning we again met up with Dick and the 7 of us made our way over
to Tombstone to take in the Helldorado days. They have about two blocks of
main street blocked off and all day long there was continuous entertainment.
There were singers, dancers, skits and lots of shoot outs including the gunfight
at the OK corral. About half the people on the streets were dressed in period
costumes and everyone was having a good time.
That evening we drove back to Sierra Vista and went out to the Sierra Vista
airport. The airport was being closed that evening for a military training
exercise. The Marines were supposed to fly in with several Ospreys, drop
off troops etc and we thought it might be interesting. The Ospreys did
show up but it was too dark to really see anything and where they landed was
over a mile from where we were so it was sort of a non event.
On Saturday morning, after breakfast, we drove out east of Sierra Vista to
the San Pedro House. It is an old ranch house along the Sam Pedro River
that has been turned into a book store and visitor center. There is a huge
cottonwood tree there who's trunk must be 10 or 12 feet in diameter. (see
pictures)
It was a great trip. Sorry the rest of you missed it.
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A shot of Deer VAlly Airport on our way out |
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Picnic in the Park, complete with cookies baked by Margaret |
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Left to right, Jim Little, Gert Little, Sandy Harnagel, Dick McColley, Margaret Monet and Keith Monet. Dewey Harnagel is taking the picture |
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Downtown Phoenix with the roof open on the ball park |
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Enjoying the cool evening on Dick's observation deck |
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Typical mode of transportation into Tombstone in the 1800's |
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The Shootout at the OK Corral |
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Instead of the saloon, we visited the local ice cream parlor |
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The grils were looking for some handsome cowboys sooo! |
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Here is the saloon but they didn't have ice cream so we didn't go in |
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The old court house has been turned into a museum complete whith a sawhorse mounted saddle for the cowboy and cowgirl wantabes |
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Nealy everyone in town was in costume |
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At Dick's hangar waiting for the Ospreys |
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Keith even found a big golf club beside the big tree |
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A freindly critter we saw on the way down to the San Pedro river |
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Jim promised us rapids and watterfals on the river, but this was about it |
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Kermit the Frog was enjoying a cool day at the river also |
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On the way out Saturday afternoon we did get to see one of the Ospreys we could not see the night before |
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A shot of the bone yard at Davis Monthan Air Force Base on the way back |
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A great weekend but exausting, as you can see |
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