Slideshow Index: Cochise County Daytrip

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• The Patagonia area has grass and trees instead of cactus
• This town is about 1 1/4 hours from Green Valley
• A typical western tourist town bar
• The main hotel in Patagonia
• Gift store
• Coffee house next door
• Breakfast at the Home Plate restaurant in the hotel
• These guys were tossing the bull and telling jokes, just like my tennis group back home
• A look north at the Santa Rita mountains
• Trees, dryed grass, and the mountains
• A smaller town northeast of Patagonia
• The Border Patrol has a big station in Sonoita
• Rodeo and fair grounds
• Horse and rider statue
• View south on the way to Sierra Vista
• Interesting formation on the way to Bisbee
• The economy of Bisbee was originally based on the Copper Mines
• Bisbee is located on the top of a mountain range
• Most of the houses and businesses are set into the hill sides
• Bisbee homes on the outskirts
• Looking over downtown and the Bisbee -B-
• Another overview of downtown
• The post office and the start of Main Street
• Across the street from the visitor center
• Copper Queen Hotel and street musicians
• Presbytarian Church behind the hotel
• At the Bisbee Historical Museum
• Mining equipment at the Museum
• Mining ore cars and locomotive
• A well decorated love-mobile
• Main street was uphill all the way
• Bisbee's economy is now based upon tourism
• Typical staircase to buildings up from Main Street
• Another of Bisbee's staircases
• House for sale on the cliff
• Miner statue near the main Catholic Church in Bisbee
• Arnie, statue, and view of the hills
• Catholic Church of Bisbee built in 1916 (four years after Arizona became a state)
• There was some beautiful stained glass windows in this church
• More stained glass
• A closer look at one of the windows
• Heading back down Main Street
• Kathy by the Peace Wall
• The Lavender Pit Copper Mine is now closed
• It is one of the largest in Arizona
• Information Plaque
• View west of this mine
• Another view of the copper mine
• Kathy with our Toyota Sienna at the mine parking lot
• Geological contrast
• Next stop, Tombstone, a very famous old west tourist town
• They stage gunfights at several places throughout the town
• You can pay for a ride on the stagecoach
• One of several horse-drawn stagecoaches
• Big Nose Kates Saloon
• The old part of town is closed off to car traffic
• We saw the staged gunfight play here five years ago on our way to Texas
• Kathy in front of one of the better restaurants
• Old west costumed actor with modern day rancher
• Last stop on the trip, Benson, at the visitor center