2019-02-02 Sat Silver City NM to Bisbee AZ

Well, we made it!! Bisbee AZ is where we will park for a week so we are excited to be out of the car for a bit.
We started this morning from Silver City NM, which they told us was sister city to Bisbee. We walked around Silver City this morning and found a nice aging hippie coffee shop. Silver City (population 10,000) is twice the size of Bisbee and they both have the same crunchy, aging hippie vibe, just like a lot of towns back home, but bigger. Lots of art shops, yoga places, used book stores, you get the picture. They both have real downtowns with with old historic
buildings, sidewalks, etc, and both grew up from mines. Silver City was silver of course and Bisbee was copper. Silver City I think still has some kind of mine near it but Bisbee shut their mine down in the 1970's or so. So now they attract tourists and folks move to these towns for the quality of life and climate. So lots of retired, coffee drinking, art loving, aging yoga stretchers.
Another nice sunny warm day peaking out in the 60's with big flat stretches, but now with snow capped mountains in the distance. We are up in altitude anyway so the mountains are 10K ft or more which means snow. A couple great podcasts make the mile go by quickly. We stopped in Sierra Vista for lunch. Sierra Vista is

the big town near Bisbee where people go to shop. It has an army base which seems to be the biggest employer in town.
We got into Bisbee an hour before check in and wandered the street so catch up on what was where. We were here a few years ago and it seems to have not changed much. We finally walked our bags up the 95 steps (I counted) to our place for the week. Very nice place that we are looking forward to settling into for the week.

I gotta say, the last two weeks on the road have been fantastic. We have seen so many parts of the country we have never been to before. But now it's time for a little R&R.