Fort Huachuca is in the foothills of the mountains surrounding Sierra Vista. The Forts goes back to 1877 and is home to the Buffalo Soldiers. They have a few interesting museums about the Fort and the Soldiers. http://www.huachuca.army.mil/site/Visitor/index.asp?pages=History
Here's some pictures of the base... http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Fort+Huachuca&qpvt=Fort+Huachuca&FORM=IGRE
We visited the cemetery here on base. It's a lovely spot in a small canyon. You can see how tough it was to live here in the 1800's. Many children died much too young.
(You can click on the pics to enlarge).
The campground here is very comfortable, quiet and well run. The camp sites are well spaced for a little privacy. It's tucked away in a corner of the base.
Sierra Vista has grown into a nice little town. It now has all the usual shopping conveniences and a few good restaurants. One that we went to was a small German restaurant that Arizona Highways magazine named as one of the best. It was pretty good except that the waitress got very busy and we left without the cake we had been eyeing. We didn't need it anyway.
Tomorrow we head to Tucson and we hope to get a space at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. They don't take reservations. This base campground is consider one of the best in the country. We've stayed there before and hope to be able to stay for about 3 weeks. While there we plan on visiting with our niece Jill, and her husband Dean. They are wonderful people and a lot of fun.
Now to catch up on a few things. Here's a picture of our neighbors from when we lived in Corpus Christi. Susan and Bert now live in Denver. They are doing great, except for a few serious medical issues which they have under control. We got to visit them in Denver.
That's Bert and Susan on the left and Lotsi, Ava and Alex on the right. Ava is Susan's sister. They came over to the US from Hungary when they were little girls. It was wonderful seeing them all again.
After Colorado we headed into New Mexico. We went to Santa Fe, as neither of us had ever been before. We weren't that enthralled with Santa Fe. We felt we missed it by 25 years. It's turned into a big city. We did get to the Georgia O'Keeffe gallery and the Chuck Jones Gallery. Chuck Jones was the artist who worked for Warner Brothers and animated Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.
Here's Alex sitting with Daffy outside the gallery.
We had to high tail it out of northern New Mexico because of a snow storm and ended up in Sierra Vista after a few nights in Deming, NM at the Escapee park, Dream Catcher. It's not the prettiest Escapee park but it is a great stop if you are traveling on I-10. Nice people.
So, that catches us up. We've been taking it somewhat easy. We've been working on a few projects around the coach that needed to be done. One was to clean out all the cabinets and closets. We did and they work better the way we rearranged them. Easier to get to the things we use the most. We also did some paperwork that we've been putting off. Mundane things that needed attention.
Now we are going to start concentrating on the holidays. We usually try to stay under the radar during the holidays. We like it quiet.
We'll send out a blog entry around Christmas. But in the meantime, enjoy and thanks to all of the readers of this blog from all over this wonderful world.
