Saturday, Feb 13th

After staying only a couple of nights near the Rodeo area RV park we moved on to Bisbee/Naco, Az.  On our way to our present location we stopped at a memorial erected in 1934 to acknowledge the last stand of Geronimo.  It is located just a few miles south of Apache, Az.  It is difficult to miss in a landscape of nothing but cactus and rocks.  It is an obelisk made from stones.  It stands out not only because of its shape and size that rises out of the stark desert but the stones that make it up.  Within the column are large stone mortars that the people once  used to grind grain and corn.  Those individual  rocks are concave and worn smooth by much use.  There is a plaque on one side of the obelisk that tells the story of Geronimo's last stand.  What it doesn't tell is what caused him to fight and leave the "reservation" that the white man had relegated and restricted he and his people to.  If anyone is interested, Google Geronimo and there are many sites that tell his story; of course, it depends on the source what kind of story is told. 
We stopped there briefly to read and photograph the memorial.  I have yet to find who the artist was that designed and built the memorial.  It would be interesting to know why field stones and mortars were worked into the column. 
It was a relatively short drive on to Bisbee/Naco, Az where we pulled into an RV park next to the first green piece of ground I have seen since Michigan.  We are next to the first golf course ever made in Arizona.  I use the color green with generosity.  It has "spots" of green but is mostly brown/yellow.  Even that must take huge amounts of water to keep it that way.  I was hoping for warmer weather as we moved further south but each morning it has been 27 degrees!  It has warmed up during the day and we have been able to ride our bikes. We rode down to the border yesterday.  The huge fence that we saw in Del Rio is here too.  The sights on the other side of the fence are nothing you would see in a vacation brochure for Mexico.  It is a very poor and depressed area.  We are moving on tomorrow to  hopefully a warmer clime with a stop in Tombstone to see what there is to see.
When we were in the Rodeo, Az area we had storms so didn't do much outside.  However, there is a bright side to storms - they afford beautiful pictures!! A couple of sunset and storm pictures included for today's entry.