Wednesday, November 15, 2017

What do they say about 'best laid plans?'  I was so excited to go geo-caching today and to whittle away at the Geo-Art Geo-caches just north of Tombstone.  We had our Arizona Trust Land Permit updated, so we could legally be on that land, and drove about 75 miles to the area. 

This was our road in and it was about 3 miles from the main road.  This looks good, but we scraped many catclaw shrubs that we were positive that we would have 'desert pin striping' on the side of our truck!  We arrived at our first geo-cache and it was 97 feet into the thicket.  We were that far in, so we thought we'd see how good or bad it was.  It was BAD!  The dry grasses were waist high on me, and lots of catclaw that, we were told there were none to be seen!  The first cache was planted under a cat claw!  Nope!  We did fear that we wouldn't see a snake if it was lying in the weeds, so we relied on our good senses, and left.   So, we drove back out, and headed for Benson.  We still had a few caches in Benson that we needed to get.  After finding them, we stopped at Mi Casa Mexican Restaurant for lunch.  I thought it was good, but Jim wasn't a fan!  We did share a piece of their house specialty dessert, though and it got an A.  It was carrot cake, topped with a light rum sauce and walnuts!  Yum!  It reminded me of Jim's mother's carrot cake.  She made the best!  We stopped to get a picture of Rex Allen, in the town park, before we came home. 

Rex Allen was born in Willcox in 1920 and died in 1999.  He had many hit records, but his most famous song was, 'Streets of Laredo' and he sold over 3 million copies.  He was the last of the Silver Screen Cowboys. Willcox is proud of their 'small-town boy-makes good.'  They have a museum in Willcox that has a lot of his memorabilia.  They still celebrate Rex Allen Days in Willcox every year during the first weekend in October.