Tombstone and Bisbee

        These two towns are worlds apart although they are close on the map.  Tombstone is a town stuck back in the 1860's.  There are horse drawn  carriages going up and down the main strip of town and the sounds of guns firing from stores.  You can go in and shoot the gun of your choice.  
     People are dressed in the gear of the 1800's wild west.  Half are wearing it cause they know that is what the town is all about and you can just see them slipping into their jogging pants or whatever else when they get home but the other half are fully there walking the walk and talking the talk.  Not sure if they would have grown up there or have moved there because that is the time they adore and feel themselves most.  A funny Place.
    Bisbee is a hippy town a little further south.  It is built into the side of a mountain and is a beautiful maze of tiny winding streets.  Very mexican feeling.  I rode Lydia up and down the winding streets getting myself lost and each street would end up at a dead end up on the top of the hill the town is built around.  As i explored, there were little gems here and there.  Murals, sculptures, strange vehicles that looked straight out of mad max.  The town was having an art crawl so I just went from gallery to gallery checking out the local art and craft.  My favorite was the Bicycle Brothel.  I am not sure if this guy has a website but it would be worth a look if you are into bikes.....the peddle kind that is.  
     Now this was not an art or craft gallery but a bike store.  I suppose you could argue though, that the fact that he didn't want to sell most of the stuff he had in there; made it  a fine, craft, gallery of bicycles.  He showed me his stuff and wow was it pretty stuff.  Forks that had waves in them and back wheel hub gears.  Fairings of inlaid wood and custom lugs galore.  Made me want to get on a bicycle.  On the topic of bicycles I met this group that was a traveling band.....on bicycles.  They had only their instruments, which were drums, stand up bass, guitar,  and sleeping bags.  Think there was a 24 stuck among them.  
Back to the road,  :)