Along I-10 west we saw signs warning of dust storms-scary.
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| White outs - no dust storms. Boarder patrol vans are everywhere. |
We stayed at the Karchtner Caverns State Park. No internet so we've been out of communication for days. We hiked the foothills trails here in the mountains.
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| Our campsite at Karchtner StatePark |
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| Sid on a mountain hike |
We've moved from the Chihuahuan Desert to the Sonoran Desert. There are places within this desert that have constant water running, either overground or below ground. They're called a riparian zone. The vegetation in a riparian zone is larger and lusher than in the surrounding areas. We drove through one-big difference from the usual scrub on the hardpack.
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| Three Google Street View cars in Tombstone |
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| Cowboy on the main street in Tombstone |
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Took a day trip to Tombstone, Arizona. In the parking lot we saw the Google Street View cars that take pictures of all the street addresses for Google. The main street looks like a street out of the wild west.
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| Kim ready for the shaft |
A little further south is Bisbee, Arizona. This town's claim to fame is an 1880 strike of copper. The very productive mine which sprang up was working up until the late 1970s. We toured the mine; the tour was led by an ex-miner.
Miners who worked above ground made less money than those who went underground. An underground miner made 3.50 per week in the 1880s. The guy who made the most was the worker who cleaned the toilets. He made $5.50 per week. These are a two-holer on a train track that had to be brought to the surface (by mule) to be cleaned. Yuck. Qualifies as one of the worst jobs in history.
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| Miners |
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| Kim on the two-holer |
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