HEADING FOR ARIZONA

It's Monday, December 15th and we have just arrived at Tombstone Territory RV park which is outside of Tombstone, AZ. We arrived here after three days of travel through some pretty severe winds which had a huge effect on our mileage. We only were able to get about 7 miles to the gallon for the first two days but then the winds softened and we get back to normal. Good thing as I was tired of going from gas station to gas station. The only good point was the diesel is down to anywhere from a low of $ 2.09 to a high of $ 2.29

We did not get as good a start as we wanted so we only got to Odessa the first night and then with the time change made it into Deming, NM the next day. We stayed at the Little Vineyards RV park which is just off the highway. It is quite a nice little park for the money.

Today we had a short drove of about 190 miles and during our drive we came to Texas Canyon which is just inside the Arizona border. It is located in Cochise Country, Arizona about 20 miles east of Benson, AZ on I-10 and lies between the Little Dragoon Mountains on the north and the Dragoon Mountains to the south.

Known for its giant granite bolders, the canyon frequently attracts rock hounds and photographers. The stagecoach route of the Butterfield Overland Mail passed through Texas Canyon from 1858 until the outbreak of the Civel War in 1861 when the stage line suspended operations. Historically within the range of the Chiricahua Apache. Cochise made his last stronghold near hear in the Dragoon Mountains during the mid 1870's.

Tomorrow we head into Tombstone to do the touristy thing.


TEXAS CANYON