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    San Xavier del Bac Mission

    March 23, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    We have a lot of options of things to see today. We won't make them all, but this mission is on top of the list.

    Founded in 1692 and named for Francis Xavier, a co-founder of the Jesuit Order, the original church was built to the north of the present Franciscan church and served as the mission until it was razed during an Apache raid in 1770.

    The mission that survives today was built between 1783 and 1797, making it the oldest European structure in Arizona. Extensive renovations began in 1999 and are still ongoing. Be sure to take a look inside the chapel in the mission garden.

    www.sanxaviermission.org    Read more

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    Mount Lemmon Scenic Byway

    March 23, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    It's late in the day ... it's cold, ... it's a little rainy, ... but we couldn't pass the chance to take the Catalina Highway up the 27-mile climb from desert basin to 9,159 feet (2,792 m) above sea level and 32° F (0° C) temperature.

    We were rewarded on the way down by a spectacular sunset.

    www.go-arizona.com/Mt-Lemmon-Scenic-Byway/    Read more

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    Fort Huachaca

    March 24, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    Visiting this military base was almost as much of a thrill as it was driving up to Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) during an emergency lockdown (it is still under lockdown 3 years later) and having the military police escort us away.

    Fort Huachaca is the hub of all military intelligence and, among others, home to MARS, the emergency broadcast system, and the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion and its Combat Outpost Surveillance and Force Protection System, or COSFPS, nicknamed "Kraken". Remember Sidney Powell saying "Release the Kraken"? That's what she was talking about.

    Fort Huachaca is also thought to be home to a unicorn: the quantum computer. I was speaking to a young soldier whose father is a sargent major on the base and asked if it was true that the super computer was there. He took a step backwards and then said that if there was something like that on base, then it would be super secret and he wouldn't have the pay grade to know about it. I took that as a "yes". Mission accomplished.

    I've been thinking a lot about how we are living in one of the most historic of times, if not THE most historic time and that most people don't have a clue.    Read more

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    E.H. Alberts

    March 24, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 13 °C

    Life on the road is filled with vignettes. Serendipitous meetings with fellow voyagers who you know you won't forget. Such a man is E.H. Alberts, currently a gunfighter, actor and historic tour guide in Tombstone, AZ.Read more

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    The Law Trumps

    March 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C

    Typically in provincial Bavaria, the church is situated on the highest point of the town. In Bisby, it's the court, then the church and then the people in the valley. There's something wrong about that.Read more

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    Bisbee

    March 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C

    Bisbee is worth a stop of you have the time. It offers lots and lots of fun activities: Haunted Bisbee, International Art Museum, Hatchet House ... Actually, I'm writing this post a week down the line wondering why we just drove through. Don't make the same mistake we did.

    We didn't even take time to stop at The Breakfast Club, which is a motorcycle pilgrimage. 😭

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    Clark Gable Slept Here

    March 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    "Overlooking Brewer’s Gulch, Hotel La More has a long and storied history of weirdness. Built in 1904, the original building burned down under unknown circumstances. The building you see today was completed in 1916 by a Mrs. S.P. Bedford, the original owner and creator of Hotel La More except for its namesake. One year later the building was leased by a Mrs. Kate Lamore, who turned the hotel into the “most modern lodging in Bisbee.” Throughout the years it has been a temporary home to those visiting Bisbee, and a permanent home to many miners who worked the pit. Some of our guests have decided to stay long after their life has expired. Please treat these souls with respect; until now, they have continued to treat this property as their own. We do not own the hotel, we share it with all the previous owners and residence." Trip Advisor

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    On the Border

    March 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    We dipped down to Douglas in order to join Historic Highway 80. Douglas is nothing like the border towns I know, namely Nuevo Loredo and Del Rio. Douglas, Arizona has good small-town bones and though suffering economically, there is no sense of dispair, likely thanks to a healthy flow of Mexican workers and customers coming over from its south-of-the-border compadre Agua Prieta.Read more

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    The Final Surrender

    March 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    "Near here Geronimo, last Apache chieftain and Nachite with their followers surrendered, on Sept. 6th 1886, to General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. Army. Lieutenant Chas. B. Gatewood with Kieta and Martine Apache scouts, risked their lives to enter the camp of the hostiles to present terms of surrender offered to them by General Miles.

    After two days, Gatewood received the consent of Geronimo and Nachite to surrender.

    The surrender of Geronimo in Skeleton Canyon, on that historic day, forever ended Indian warfare in the United States."

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    Willcox

    March 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    As an American living in Bavaria, home of the secretive freemasons and illuminati, it is quite shocking to have this cult so "in your face". It's symbology is all over the place. Just stopped to check directions and look what I see.

    That said, this food truck was great. Worth a stop of you're in the area.    Read more

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