Snowbirding Magnus Style, Day 12

Saturday, Nov 15

Tombstone Gunfight day.  But first we headed over to Bisbee to eat at the Bisbee Breakfast Club café. It was very, very good. Except the coffee, which was not the variety I liked. The menu had all kinds of things on it that I wanted to try—a tofu scramble, pancakes, baked oatmeal. But I decided on the potato pancakes because I’d never had them in a restaurant before.

They weren’t what I expected—I’d hoped for real potato pancakes are made from leftover boiled potatoes, but these were basically hashbrowns with a little onion, refried and smashed flat. Try something else another time.  But I also had a biscuit with gravy and the biscuit was huge!  Twice as big as any biscuit I’ve ever had. Good gravy, too. And I had bacon which I gave to Ed, and applesauce which was a joke. About 1-1/2 Tbsp of applesauce (from a jar, no doubt) in a little plastic dish like they serve condiments in.

 But still it was a very good breakfast. A little expensive but worth it.

Then back to Magnus Motorhome to walk Molly for a bit, and then on to Tombstone for our 11:30 gunfight show. It was very cute and often funny (it was a “comedy” gunfight show) and pretty well acted. Lots and lots of gun shots making us jump. There wasn’t much in the way of stunts like I’d hoped, but still good.

 

 

Then we walked around Tombstone a little bit and I bought the most boring 1/4 pound of divinity I ever tasted. I don’t know what the recipe was, but I suspect it was made in a factory with some sort of sugar/starch substitute.  And it was hard on top like it was old. Lesson learned—if you buy candy from a counter in a candy shop in a tourist trap, stick with the more popular varieties like chocolate turtle. Those kinds would at least turn around quicker and be fresher.

Then we drove back to get Molly, eat a brief snack and head out to see the cranes again.  I’d heard that they only spent the nights at the Whitewater Draw and so you needed to come at dawn or dusk to see them flying in, in big flocks. But I don’t think that was true. They were already there when we got there at 4pm and I only saw an occasional small flock arrive later.

Sandhill Cranes

Ducks