It was my birthday on July 17, and we had been wanting to go on a day trip somewhere, so we went to Tombstone that is close to our place, finally!
About 7 months ago, we had watched the movie " Tombstone " which was released in 1993 and we both really like it because it 's well made and well acted.
It's also based on a true story.
The location is close from our place, and it takes about one hour and a half to get there.
We realized that we have been living here about 16 years but we have never been to the town Tombstone.
It's said that many of the buildings in the town are still as they were in the
19th centuries time period, so I wanted to go there.
I love seeing and walking around the places where it's like going back to an older generation.
According to the information, there are about 1500 people living in Tombstone nowadays.
"Tombstone (1993)" Theatrical Trailer
The temperature on that day was hot ( about 99°F) but the weather was not too sunny and not cloudy, so I felt we were lucky.
I was worried about if it was too sunny and hot, we may need to cancel to go there.
Before leaving the home, I was checking that place's direction for good luck or not , using Asian nine stars feng shui flying stars.
However it was not a good direction to go on a trip but it's only half day to stay there so I thought it's okay.
We also wore our Tibetan Dzi beads necklace for protection.
My husband has read the review of Tombstone from people who had visited there and several of them said the " Bird Cage " is a popular tourist place and it is a haunted place.
There are ghost tours there as well.
Tombstone is an old town and except for some buildings which were burned in 19 th century , all the other buildings were keeping since that time period.
Besides that, I suppose many spirits of people who were killed by criminals and gun fights may still stay there.
So some places in the town may be haunted.
Tombstone is a town where we can see the 19 the centuries buildings and scenery but it's different from " the Old Tucson " site, as it is still a town today.
The Old Tucson site is a movie studio and theme park just west of Tucson, Arizona tourist place ).
At Tombstone, there is no particular entrance place and no need to pay for the admission fee and it's not organized like a theme park so although it's an authentic old western town, some people may feel inconvenient.
We arrived there around 11 am and parked our car in the Free parking place near the OK Corral site. It was a week day, so was not so crowded.
We bought tickets for the Gun flgiht show, it's a 30 minute show and some museums in this store " O.K. Corral Gun fight site ".
It's a gift shop and also there are some items which were used by the people from 19 th centuries.
They said the OK Corral Gun fight show will start about 12:00 pm, but actually it started around 12:15pm or more.
It was not so sunny day, but it was hot and felt a little bit humid.
There is a pavilion like cover above the audience seats so this was good but it was still very hot and while we were watching the show, I was getting dizzy feeling from the heat, but sometimes wind was coming up so it helped me.
However If I was staying longer I might have fainted from the heat.
Ray was wearing running shirt under the T-shirt, and he also felt dizzy from the heat so he took off the T-shirt during the show.
After that he said he felt better.
Honestly the show was not so impressive, because we already watched the 1993 movie starring Kurt Russel and Val Kilmer ( which is a great movie ) and also a similar type of show in Tucson old town was better, although I was also not so impressed much.
I was wearing a type of hat which was not fully covering my head, I think it was my mistake to choose it instead of my other hat which fully protects from sun .
Until we got to the show, we were walking around the store and taking a lot of pictures around the place so my head was already hot and got sun burned.
After watching the show, we went back to the car because I was not feeling good from the dizziness so wanted to take a little rest.
We brought two bottles of frozen mineral water and we left the water in the car while sightseeing.
so while we were resting in the car I drank it and put the cold water bottle in my neck area to cool down my body.
It helped and my feeling got much better.
It was already about 1:30pm, so we went to a restaurant "LongHorn Restaurant " which has good reviews.
I really like the design of the buildings which is from old generation. and we both ordered roast beef sandwiches.
The waitress said it has roast beef sandwiches plus mashed potato with gravy sauce.
So it sounded delicious.
However..... As you can see in the photo ( above ) , food was covered by a lot of gravy sauce all over. and the taste was very heavy and plain.
This left a bad taste for us....
We both wanted to enjoy the meal and didn't want to make our feeling bad by complaining about it, so we tried to eat them.
But it was way too heavy and Ray said he was getting a stomachache , so we could not finish it.
This might be one of the worse experience in the USA's restaurant.
Presentation of the meal, taste was awful and the roast beef, bread and lettuce and tomato were not fresh.
That taste of the meal reminds me of a restaurant in London, England.
It was not the waitress fault and she was okay, so we didn't complain to her and gave her a tip.
But I thought it's good to write the review of our experience in the restaurant for people who may go to the restaurant.
If you want to go to the restaurant, we do not recommend the " roast beef sandwich ".
Maybe burgers may be fine, I suppose because the reviews we read for the restaurant was not so bad.
We saw other people eating burgers and fries and this looked okay.
After that, we went to the " Bird Cage " .
We went into the place , but did not tour the inside of the building as we saw this place had a long wait.
Once we were outside again, there was senior man who was in the wheelchair in front of the the store and while I was looking at a different building, when I looked back the senior man had fallen down and was already being helped by his family and some people who were right next to him.
It was strange and I guess it might be happened from a ghost ?
We were feeling so hot and wanted to eat ice cream , and we found an ice cream store right across the road from the "Bird Cage" building.
When we got into the ice cream store, a woman was in the counter and she was looking at us with a unfriendly face, almost angry face, looked like really in a bad mood.
and asked us can I help you ?
but Ray told me we should leave here and I was feeling the same way so we left. .
What was it ?
Maybe because the haunted building was across from that store, so it might be influenced to the store ?
We felt it was low, heavy frequency energy. and it started from our bad experience in the restaurant.
So we decided to refresh our feeling to change our energy level up.
After that we were hanging around the Allen street and also went to the gun flight museum.
But it was closed because of weekday.
So we were walking around the " Old Tombstone Gun Fight " area and taking photos.
It was good!
I really like seeing old generation's buildings.
We stayed there until 3pm and my feet were getting pain , so we decided to go back to Tucson.
It was not the best day, but good things were the weather was not too sunny, and we could get to the town smoothly without getting lost.
Free parking place. Most of the shop keepers and tourists were friendly to us.
Overall I was satisfied to be able to see Tombstone, that's what I really wanted.
Lesson I learned,
I will not go to the places where we need to walk around long time on a hot day.
and I will be more careful when choosing restaurants, and menu.
It was my birthday, I'm grateful to my parents to have me in this world and taking care of me.