http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Tombstone/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Arizona , Tombstone en-us Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:02 BST Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:59:02 BST Memorial Day weekend 2008. The weekend that I was coming home to see family and take a walk down Memory Lane. An event that I was very much looking forward to and the chance to see some family members that I hadn't seen since the mid 1980's. In our family we have this standing joke the family gets together for weddings and funerals. Thankfully this weekend wasn't eitherMy plane landed at T http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Tombstone/blog-282593.html Posted by Onaxthiel Due to Obfuscator's constant complaints about how early I was making him wake up I let him sleep in this morning until 600. He still whines. There is just no pleasing some people. So while he continued to snore I went off and grabbed some shots of the sunrise and local flora. The campground was fairly full but thankfully most snow birds are retired and therefore slee http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Tombstone/blog-255294.html Two completely opposite tourist traps that were both a lot of fun. First we went to the town of Tombstone where the famous gunfight took place and Wyatt Earp was the only man who walked away unharmed. We walked around the little town where even the Bank of America was built with oldfashioned wooden teller counters. There were lots of junk shops and plently of natives in wild west garb trying http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Tombstone/blog-156136.html So April has arrived and with it our first vistors to the new house. Wayne Steph and Thomas stayed with us for 4 days at the beginning of the month. They drove down to us from Vegas and left us to head on to LA for a week of theme parks After a day relaxing by the pool we took them to Tombstone for a day out thought Thomas might enjoy 'cowboy country'. As we mentioned in a previous blog ent http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Tombstone/blog-150336.html