Onto Tucson

Good Morning,  Well, we are on the road once again.  We have been staying at Hugh and Jeanne Bishop's house, camped in their barnyard for the last couple of days. 

 The sweetest people ever, wouldn't take our money for camping.  They are very high up Mounted Shooters, world champs even.  They have one of the superstar horses of the sport who was featured in Shooting Magazine.  They sold us two bales of hay for $9.80 each.  It was all Terry and I could do to carry them to the trailer, the size of a coffin and over 100 lbs each.  I wasn't sure I could even lift my side of it but we wrestled them into the trailer and now have  hay for a good while.  We haven't touched the hay on top yet so we are doing good not overfeeding Lady and the Tramp.

This is in Jeanne and Hughs back yard.

Jeanne's shorty neighbors, check out their heavy winter coats.

Lady and myself, the weather was absolutely perfect that day for riding, cool air and warm sun!  We rode through a million pricker bushes out there, the horses were good sports though.  We rode by a few beautiful adobe type houses sitting on the top of the hills.

Bobe and The Tramp.  This morning when I went out to feed, The Tramp was playing kissy face with Jeanne's gelding.

To get out of the pricker bushes, we took this road quite a ways.

A short video, let me know if any of you can see this.

We walked up the hill to Bishop's house and turned around and shot this pic of our campsite, can you see the trailer? The little town of Gila is just to the left, there is a po, 3 churches and a store.

Bobe's two cents:  We are heading into the Texas Canyon in AZ and it is 55 degrees.  It looks like the old western movies with all the gigantic rocks.  The sun is shining and it is a beautiful day.  We are surely making memories.

Gracie and MaryJean are doing great traveling with us.  Yesterday we went to Silver City to get dogfood, a computer thingie, went downtown in the historic part and found the best antique store.  It was the perfect mix of antiques, jewelry and art.  I bought two heavy glass turquois colored small wine glasses for  the trailer.  The town is full of artie hippies, they leave dogs in the back of pickups in town and many businesses claim to be dog-friendly including dog water bowls on the sidewalk.  One store had a cute gray cat and the owner made beautiful glass beads.  We had a lovely day in town, went back to the ranch and had happy hour (3 hours) with Jeanne and Hugh before saying goodnight.

We are pasing the Tombstone exit right now and plan to come back here to ride through town.