So my wife and I went out of town for our anniversary. We headed out from Phoenix on Friday afternoon and made our way towards Tucson. We drove around Tucson for a few hours before deciding on a place to stay for the night. We stopped at a used bookstore and picked up a couple books and then went to our motel room to rest up for our trip to Mexico. The next morning we were up early and driving to Mexico. It took us about 2 hours to get from Tucson to Mexico and we arrived, parked, and entered by foot to Mexico about 12:00 Pm. We walked the shops with constant caos from the merchants trying to hock there wares. We had lunch at a nice little Mexican restaurant where they were offering free margaritas with a "Lunch Special". We decided to give it a try and the Lunch Special was HUGE as well as the margaritas were so powerful I could only drink but a few sips. After spending a couple of hours over the border we decided to head back toward Tucson and then drive to Tombstone. We arrived in Tombstone around 6pm or so and quickly found a room. We were exhausted. Exhausted from walking, from driving, from even talking. We went out had a quick bite and settled in our room for a much needed nights rest. We awoke at 6am to catch a glimpse of the sunrise as it arose over the beautiful Pedregosa Mountains. We had planned to take the 2 hour drive out to the mountains after a short day in Tombstone, although we realized that we would be adding another 3 or so hours to our return trip. By this time we had already covered over 450 miles and knew there were over 200 miles between us and home. We decided that after Tombstone we would return home. So we took our tour of the "Fight at the O.K. Coral", had some Indian Fry Bread and called it a trip. I am comfortably back home and away from the confines of that dreaded car. Oowee the backaches from driving and lugging around my fricken backpack with laptop and accessories. If I wasn't driving in the car, I was walking around, and carrying that awful pack. Although once I began using the chest and waist strap it made the backpack bearable. I'm tired now.
I have a lot to say on the specifics of certain parts of the trip and will gather those and post them apart from one another. I'm gonna take a nap now and I'll get to those upon awaking.