Arizona

First off, a few random southwestern photos:

Ah, yes...Arizona. Sorry about the fuzziness, but we were going past the sign at about 60mph...
Anyway, it looks like I'm getting closer and closer to actually being current with our location. We happen to still be in Arizona, even though that photo was from three days ago.
So we took off from New Mexico and made it to Tombstone, Arizona by dusk. Home of the OK Corral, and legendary site of Wyatt Earp's most famous gunfight. It wasn't too impressive, but I was glad we went there. We spent the night at the Stampede RV Park, and in the morning headed north, intending to stop by the Titan II Missile Mueseum on our way. Well, we had a slight change of plans when we found out that Old Tucson Studios lay not too far off our planned route. This is the site where numerous western films, beginning with Arizona in 1939-1940, and having among their ranks such classics as Rio Bravo and El Dorado, and several tv shows including Bonanza and High Chaparral, were filmed. They had a terrible fire on the lot back in 1995 which destroyed a lot of the sets (including, I suspect, all the recognizable street scenes from most of the Bonanza episodes, and the main street from Rio Bravo). In fact, the only thing I recognized was the corner hotel, which I'm pretty sure is the Virginia City hotel from Bonanza. I'd have to check, though. Anyway, we stopped by and spent two hours there.

 Of course, even though I would have been happy to take scenic pictures the entire time, my parents insisted that pictures with people in them are more interesting. Hence...
My dad:

And my mom and I:

It was bitterly cold, so we had to cut our visit short, even though there was some things I didn't get to see. On the way back to the highway I caught some pictures of the setting sun: