Tombstone: "The Town too Tough to Die"

From Joshua Tree we drove 7 hours to Benson, AZ. Benson is 23 miles north of the famous town of Tombstone, AZ. We didn't get to Benson until midnight so we stopped and spent the night at our first Walmart. It was pretty cool, you just had to stay at the back edges of the parking lot. The Walmart was open 24hours, which made me feel pretty safe, plus there were a bazillion security cameras around the parking lot...

Unfortunately we didn't learn from parking at Joshua Tree that you need to park your RV facing the West so that when the sun comes up it is not blazing in your window, waking you up and making you sweat to death. Good thing about it was that we did wake up early and got our day started. We picked up a few groceries from the Walmart and then headed down Arizona Hwy 80 to Tombstone. Joe was pretty excited, especially cause his cousin Jason would be so jealous (just kidding J!) Me on the other hand, I didn't know too much about the history of Tombstone nor have seen any of the movies made about it, so I was more excited for Joe than myself.
We arrived and headed straight for the visitors center to make sure we caught all that Tombstone had to offer. We ended up talking to a cool "good 'ol boy" and he pointed us to some pretty neat things to see. They have the main st. (Allen St.) closed to auto traffic so you can walk all around and check out the old buildings and new businesses that are there. We went to Bird Cage Theatre, which is supposedly the most haunted place in the USA (great we all know how much I love haunted stuff...) Got the run down from the museum caretaker: apparently it was the one-stop shop back in the 1800's. You could get a drink, play poker, get a haircut, and a woman. The woman that worked at Bird Cage cost you about $25/ night, down the street in the "red light" district the women cost you about $0.25/ night... She also said that everyone who has and does work there has some sort of encounter with paranorma at least once a week.(not a job I will be researching) We then checked out Big Nose Kate's saloon, she was Doc Holiday's girlfriend, we caught photos of some beautiful stained glass and had time to grab a beer (hmm...how do we always find time?) We were lucky enough to catch the Historic Gunfight showing at the OK Corrall. It was pretty sweet, the guy who played Morgan Earp was hilarious, he made lots of the tourists uncomfortable with his witty banter (including me). After the gunfight we checked out the mini-movie on the history of Tombstone. We also got to check out the newspaper museum and get a copy of the paper made from the presses they used back when Wyatt Earp was alive (my GRC professors would be so proud!)
After this fun-filled day we drove back to the city of Benson and hooked-up in our first RV park of the trip (hence the WiFi).
Tomorrow we are headed to Kartchner Caverns State Park.