We arrived in Saint David at the Saint David RV Resort on Monday. This is Western Horizon Resort. We get in here on our RPI membership so it is only $10.00 per night! Here is a picture of our campsite at dusk.
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| Site number 133 |
We are on an end site and also on a bluff so we have nobody out our door or our back window. The campground has a heated swimming pool and a hot tub that we have already used. The WiFi is somewhat inconsistent but when working right is fast at about 30mb. You can only access it at the clubhouse.
On Tuesday we decided to go to the town of Bisbee.
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| City of Bisbee |
It is a small town about 40 miles south of us. They are known for their copper mines, both open pit mines and also cave mines.
They have a mine tour that you can take called the Queen Mine Tour.
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| Bisbee Queen Mine |
The mine is a constant 47 degrees cold!
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| Cool?? Nooooo! Cold! |
They dress you up in a hard hat, rain slicker and belt with battery pack with flashlight jut to make you look goofy! Good thing that Patty and I fit the bill without the silly clothes!
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| Miner Patty |
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| Minor Brian |
They take you about 1500 feet into the mine on a mine cart. This is the entrance to the mine. As you can see from the photo the mine was opened in 1915. You straddle the seat to ride into the mine. The cart rides in on the mine rail tracks.
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| Queen Mine entrance |
If you wanted to know why we decided to go on this crazy full time adventure, I think this picture explains it all! :)
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| Getting ready to enter the mine |
Here we are entering the darkness!
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| Queen Mine |
We were able to go up these stairs to another level of the mine. I believe it was only about 35-40 steps.
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| Mine level |
This guy just couldn't wait to get back out of the mine to take care of business! These 'Porta Potty's' had wheels and were on the rails. Not much privacy, and they were two 'holers'. But hey, back in those days, there were no women working down in the mines. Somehow when I saw these, I thought about Matt! (Love you son!)
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| Porta Potty |
Had to keep Patty away from the dynamite! Good thing she didn't have any matches!
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| Dyn-O-Mite! |
On our way out we got a picture of Bisbee from the hill!
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| Bisbee |
That's it for Tuesday,
Love you all!
Brian and Patty
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