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Same here. Almost hypnotic

 

Made it down to Safford. The drive from Alpine to Morenci drops elevation from 8000 to 4000 feet. There are a lot of sharp turns. And we have to go as fast as we can.

 

Wow, what tiny wipers!

 

the windshield is not very tall, that's all that fits And they work OK.

A couple pics of the car driving down the highway, taken by folks who went with us.

 

Been thru there many times, great roads to tour on. Best wishes.

 

That's no typewriter. I think it's one of those old steam powered televisions. Maybe a Muntz or a DuMont.

 

Janet wanted to get out of the house, so we went for a little drive through the countryside. A jail tour, it turned out.

There used to be a lot of mining in southern AZ, all over the place. Gleeson is not very far from here, and was one of those small mining places. Of course the only sturdy buildings in the quicky built mining towns were the jails, so that's all that survived! used to be a thousand people or so at these ghost towns, a hundred years or so ago.



We live at the blue J, The Thing is at the top at Johnson Rd, Courtland is just north of Gleeson, Pearce is just south of Sunsites.



The Gleeson jail wants to be a tourist trap, but there aren't any tourists.



Ghost Trail Rd is dirt, but in decent condition.



The Courtland jail is in rough shape, but still standing.





Pearce is in good condition, since no one can get near it.



We took 191, which used to be 666, the Devil's Highway, up to the interstate so we could stop at The Thing.

Note the odometer reading! can't plan this.



We did a little shopping and got lunch at The Thing. It's been here a long time, but they redid all the signs several years ago.



On the way home, we went through St David, in search of the 59 Edsel I sold to a guy in 2016. And found it! We delivered the car to him back then, and sort of remembered where it was, but had to drive around a while till I saw the distinctive tail hiding between two trees.



How was your day?

 

how cool!

 

thanks for the tour, you've become the hamb's amb***ador of travel, a position once held by the likes of Bob k and Denise.
I see an update on this thread and I think to myself, what is he up to now.

 

Thanks for sharing your adventures Jim. Helps motivate the rest of us to do the same.

 

Nice trip...for some reason I like Dragoon and the Texas Canyon area....
The jail houses are a testament to time
water pump in the Vicky....so I'm in maintenance mode...after 30k miles...the wear is where the lip seals were riding...
....back to your thread....my wife has a favorite Turquoise bead necklace and earrings that was bought at The Thing tourist trap about 50 years ago....
If you haven't been to Slaughter Ranch, in the Douglas neighborhood on the border of Mexico....Janet might like it for another day trip.....the weather sure is nice for it....

 

You missed the jail in Bowie

 

that's interesting, that's the first place she suggested we go! now that you've recommended it, we'll get there one of these days

 

Interesting place to visit, John Slaughter was a Cochise County sheriff. This property is on the border of Mexico. From the front porch, you can watch the traffic on Mexican Route 2 (runs East-West). We were there nearly 20 years ago.

https://www.slaughterranch.org/

And a quote from this website: "(don't trust your GPS! Follow the directions below"

Russ

 

This afternoon at Walmart.

 

Jim, has anyone pointed out to you that your wheels don't match.

 

I hate every time someone say’s that. I mean who else did that to my car.

 

I doubt if Squirrel can tell from the driver's seat. That seems to be where he is most of the time.

 

you know, when I win the lotto, i'm building a clone of jim's corvette right down to the exact patch of primer on the fender, even the leaky axle seal

 

I went for a little drive to Tucson today, to see my brother. When I got home, the odometer said I'd driven the car 30,000 miles in the past two and a half years. Time flies when you're having fun!



The drive up. I took the scenic route, since they're working on I-10 and traffic is slow.


At his house in Tucson. They have cactus there.


Miles when I got home.



Miles on June 22nd, when I first got the car running.

 

I'd guess you don't want to see a picture of the F'n snow we got last night? Congrats on you enjoying your ride. Sounds like you have the bugs out of it?

 

no ****, it was 1 degree above when I woke up this morning, I had to stand on the back porch to make sure the dog didn't freeze to the ground

 

It's been down to -14 here at my farm in Wisconsin. Zero now.

 

1963, my folks moving our family to Tucson from Minneapolis.

 

still, I do better in cold weather than I do in hot, I can only remove so much clothing before people start screaming

 

Jim, is all that junk still in Huachuca City?

 

Yeah, all that junk is still in Huachuca City. It looks a little different now, but I bet a lot of it is still where it was sitting 46 years ago, and probably a lot longer.

 

My Grandparents moved to Tucson maybe 5 yrs before your family did. Their address is one of those useless bits of information etched into my brain.

Gary

 

Well, thanks for posting that article, that was fun! Growing up nearby you must have some stories.
I first found the place about 84-85 or so. After the fire. For those unfamiliar the shop that says "milos garage" is burnt, as is much of the yard.
Milo was one of the old guys who helped me develop my life's theory on old junk, that is...whenever you see something really special, theres a reason its still there. Not for sale, too high priced, I'm gonna fix that up someday, etc. But don't think for a second you've discovered something everyone else missed!

Last time I was there, about late 90's, he was quite old, his daughter would him get around.

I ***ume he has p***ed by now. He told me once about hundreds of acres he bought near Phoenix for penny's in the 50's and sold recently for millions. He was kinda like Jed Clampet, driving an old mini van and worth gobs of cash!

 

I never really talked to Milo, I think I tried once in the 1980s and it didn't go well, so I wrote him off as a loon and ignored his junk collection. Other guys I know were able to deal with him some.

Several years ago another fellow I know in town was helping the kids or grandkids sell some stuff, but that seems to have petered out.

I think that the family thinks that they are sitting on a gold mine, but those damn miners expect to get the gold for free, and we're not giving it away! even though we have no clue what we really have, or how worthless it is, relative to the work it takes to make it saleable.

so I continue to ignore it. And I've been driving past it pretty often over the past 40+ years.