Tombstone & Bisbee, AZ - RV Living

[@madisonlee6752]

Bisbee was a favorite place of my travels. And I so miss you. I hope all is well

[@faronl33]

i was born and raised in bisbee back then it was a hard working mining town

[@EmbracingDetours]

I wish we had explored more of the mining history of Bisbee. Regardless, we thoroughly enjoyed the town.

[@VS-zx6xi]

If you get up to Yosemite area again you should stay at the SKP coop Park of the Sierras in Coarsegold, California. We just spent 2 months there and it is the most beautiful place ever! The people are wonderful! We will go back.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you for the recommendation, we'll check that SKP park out next time we're in the area!

[@hbjtf]

Was in Tombstone, Bisbee, and visited Kartchner Caverns all of last week. I great time of year in Southern AZ.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Sounds like you made the most of your time, good for you!!! It's a very cool part of the country. Where to next? If you're open to suggestions, we really enjoyed our time in Organ Pipe Nat'l Monument - that video will be coming in a couple of weeks. Enjoy and safe travels 😊

[@DM235567]

We were in Tombstone 2 weeks ago also. Kitchener Caverns is a must do! $23 for a tour, but worth every penny. You’ll never be in a cavern like this. State parks did a awesome job there. So many cool little towns to see. Hope you come back and take more in of this amazing landscape.

[@EmbracingDetours]

I am so totally bummed we missed Kartchner, we love cave tours and don't usually pass up an opportunity to go spelunking. We didn't even know it existed until this video came out. Now we know and will make a point to see it next time we're in the area, thank you!!

[@christopherlawlor6330]

We were just there in February 2020. Stayed at Kartchner Caverns state park. Awesome cave tours. Loved Bisbee, Thomestone not so much.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Phooey, now I'm disappointed we missed Kartchner - multiple people have mentioned it in the comments. It wasn't even on our radar. It's been added to the list 👍

[@rdnysal]

@@EmbracingDetours Kartchner caverns has a big waiting list to go do a tour You guys will have to check it out when find self here for a spell

[@rdnysal]

lots of stalactites and bats

[@leannaestep3066]

I was lucky enough to live and work in Benson, AZ, for several years. It is a completely different and beautiful town, and it's central to a lot of fun things to do.

[@dwightdumas7724]

The mine tours in bisbee is great

[@EmbracingDetours]

In hindsight, regretting we missed that. We missed a number of things in that area so it seems a return visit is in order!!

[@johnwilliams640]

Very good video...Thanks

[@EmbracingDetours]

Glad you enjoyed, thank you for watching and commenting!!!

[@2021-j2d]

Feel better

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you 💛

[@the_g9456]

Hey guys, this is the first video of yours I have watched but Bisbee looks so cool. Wish you could have showed more of the old downtown area.

[@Bugnpiper]

We've done both Tombstone and Bisbee and felt the same way you did. We stopped at Tombstone on our way out to Coronado National Memorial, then went to Chiricahua National Monument, then hiked out to Fort Bowie National Historic Site. Then on our way back stopped at Bisbee. Had my cards read (lol) and had dinner and drinks there. Great little fun town!

[@harlockgft8884]

My fiance and I recently visited Tombstone and we absoluelty loved it. It is true most things you have to pay for thats how they bring in money as a tourist town. I enjoy the old western life style. Were thinking about moving their actually. We did not get to see bisbee and benson. Sorry you guys didn't have a better time in tombstone.

[@johngibbons7494]

I was born and raised in Bisbee love it

[@billbaxter2914]

Another great video. Look forward to all your videos. Thanks

[@EmbracingDetours]

Awe, thank you! ☺️

[@Dougcrockett27]

Next time is Bisbee, take the Queen Mine tour, if you didn't do so. Pretty cool stuff.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Yes, we have much to add to our list for next time - Queen Mine tour in Bisbee, Lowell, and Karchner Caverns. Thank you for the suggestion!!

[@etinfl]

Thanks for sharing

[@EmbracingDetours]

Our pleasure, thank you for watching and commenting 👍😊

[@billmorgan7918]

Great places to visit had a great time. We stayed for two weeks.

[@billmorgan7918]

Did you go down the mined?

[@deangoeller8440]

I like your videos and your music with them

[@EmbracingDetours]

We're glad you're enjoying! Thanks for watching and commenting 👍😊

[@deanherr8049]

We were there at Tomstone about 10 years ago. Spent most of a day there. I would go back.

[@Hanginwithherky]

We were in these towns a few days ago. We loved Bisbee also. Safe travels

[@gailrobinson7125]

Tombstone was a fun place to visit when we were there in October 2018. Pretty dog friendly also. Didn’t see Bisbee but hope to on a future visit. Love visiting Arizona. Haircut looks great! 😃

[@EmbracingDetours]

Wish we could have enjoyed it more, between my cold and the cold weather it was just not a good time for us unfortunately. We'll have to give it a second chance next time we're in the area. Definitely add Bisbee to your list, and Lowell is a cool looking ghost town just around the corner that we missed 👍 Thanks!!

[@SomeplaceOrAnother]

Tombstone looks a bit touristy but Bisbee looks like a fun place to visit and it looks like you had a great time 😁👍

[@EmbracingDetours]

You hit the nail on the head 🔨👍

[@judithpearson8870]

Great video. Heading that way tomorrow!

[@wtbm123]

Cool

[@EmbracingDetours]

😎

[@georgebeaulieu8908]

Talk about going upstairs! Wow! Great video.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Haha, yes!!! Up, and up, and up 🤪

[@scottengh1175]

Don't think the Tombstone OK Corral is in the original spot. Wow, taking the hair out of your face really brightened your face and made you look a few years younger. Really pretty.

[@randlayman2668]

I've been through there but didn't have time to stop and visit, but will next time through, great video!

[@EmbracingDetours]

Definitely stop!! Also, Lowell is supposed to be a really cool old ghost town just around the corner that we unfortunately missed.

[@julieh3327]

We’ve been to Tombstone but not Bisbee. Guess we will just have to go back! Looked like a fun little town. Kind of reminded me of Jerome, AZ on the side of a hill. Thanks for sharing.

[@EmbracingDetours]

We've been to Jerome before (pre-Airstream) - very funky town and if my memory serves me, much more extreme hill driving than Bisbee 🙈 I liked them both very much!

[@markbajek2541]

Benson AZ's little hospital was used for interior shots for the George C Scott movie "Rage"

[@EmbracingDetours]

I love fun facts like that, thank you!!

[@SuiteTravels]

Great video....again! We really enjoy the Benson area and really like the SKP park. Travel safe!

[@EmbracingDetours]

I think we have you guys to thank for our staying there, I remember you saying you were headed there which put it on our radar. So, thanks for that!!

[@PeterHatch-mx7zc]

Good video!!😊

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you so much 🙂

[@gregorycarson3889]

Love the music and tour you guys are awesome 👏🏽

[@EmbracingDetours]

That's so kind of you, we really appreciate it 🤗

[@survivortechharold6575]

I have been to Tombstone and Bisbee. Makes for interesting couple days.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Indeed! We were upset to learn we missed the cool ghost town of Lowell right around the corner.

[@kylepifer9509]

Finally got the answer to the question of your hair color and cut !👍🏻👏🏻

[@EmbracingDetours]

I actually usually color it myself to save money, this time was an exception.

[@kylepifer9509]

I also color my hair myself have for years and I also cut my own hair. That’s why I asked about your hair before because it always looks so nice 👍🏼 love short hair!!!

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you!! And wow, I wish I could figure out how to cut it myself, I'm envious. I'm still figuring out the coloring thing, I've had to pay to have it fixed a few times which is why I just let the salon take care of it in this video! 😄

[@mrdave22]

nice new doo

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you!!

[@sandratessem9980]

Great video

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you, Sandra!

[@leedanielson7452]

Cool vid guys! Both towns looked pretty neat especially Bisbee... Bri I could tell you were stuffed up after you said your 1st word. Hope it didn’t last too long! Thanks guys!🥰👍😊

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thanks, Loran 😊 Yeah, I couldn't breathe... thankfully it was over pretty quickly. Hoping to avoid this coronavirus, stay safe out there!!

[@fireside007]

YOU ~ ROCK ! !

[@discoveringlockenest8420]

That’s awesome! We would be interested in “owning” a place like that and using it as a home base! Gotta get more info about it. Thank you for sharing!

[@oneskydog4401]

Here is a place that is not a grid pack. Check it out as well if you are in the neighborhood. www.ctrvresort.com/for-sale

[@oneskydog4401]

@Discovering LockeNest I forgot to do an @ya but this is an alternative to a grid pack park design. www.ctrvresort.com/for-sale

[@EmbracingDetours]

@Discovering LockeNest - we think it's a great idea too!! Glad we could introduce you to it, good luck and happy home base hunting!

[@iralowe6138]

Nice area enjoyed the video.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Glad you enjoyed, thank you for watching and commenting 😊

[@robertmartin2387]

Tombstone is a little over 5'000' in elevation,going to be cool in Winter

[@MidLifeJourney]

When were you guys there? We were in Tombstone a few weeks ago. We should have visited Bisbee. It looked like a cool town!

[@EmbracingDetours]

We were there in early December. Don't you hate it when you find out you missed something cool in an area? Happens to us all the time.

[@charlesb4267]

I've been to Tombstone once years ago and while its obviously touristy, it does have some cool things to see and read about and amuse ones self with although yes the expectation is to spend and that isn't always a turn on. I had not been to Bisbee but that looks like a really cool town and I was rather shocked to find out it sits at over 5500 feet of elevation, hence the puffing stair experience and being stuffed up with a cold and a workout like that would not have been a fun moment !

[@EmbracingDetours]

I think on a better day when I was feeling well we could have made much more of our time in Tombstone. But it would be nice if there were some signs explaining the history at various points of interest, the only thing we saw were people pushing paid for experiences. Bisbee took us by surprise too, even though you are only half an hour away from Tombstone you are definitely in a very different environment.

[@izzimichaels2892]

small world, we were just there a few days ago.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Small world indeed!! Hope you enjoyed, safe travels 👍

[@izzimichaels2892]

@@EmbracingDetours well we learned that old roy bean wasnt so bad after all.....lol

[@Maxid1]

Contrary to most comments here, I love Tombstone. I have a place there and always look forward to going back. I bought the place i have from someone somewhat infamous in the neighborhood who's name would still be recognized by most people that live and work there today. Good or bad, it's a very close knit community. I hadn't been there for more than a few days working on the house. While eating at the Longhorn, I started talking to a guy in a cowboy hat, part of one of the local shows. He introduced me to the owner of the Longhorn and some of the other residents. Through that conversation I found an HVAC guy, who put me in contact with all the other services. Thing is, no services advertise in Tombstone, they don't have to. There's too much work. I've been all over the world and few places have invited me in as a neighbor and friend like Tombstone did. My take on the tourist businesses is, I want them to stay in business. Every time I go "home" I go over to the paintball, gun supply, casino called Big Iron Shooting Gallery and shoot all the guns, buy some ammo and admire the saddles and western belts and holsters because, since I don't have a horse (or shoot western), I can't justify buying one. I might not even get one there, I might go to the guy at the other end of town on the other side of Allen street (main drag) and have him make me one. Geno D'Ambrose down at the Tombstone old west bookshop .But I'm still thinking I should get the horse first. To be honest, I've got a neighbor that has the most beautiful white and brown paint that I've ever seen. I've been looking at it for a while now... I routinely have a dozen deer walking though my yard and the late night coyote packs, and the occasional renegade cow will go grazing through till the local rancher finds her and takes her back home. Other than that, rabbits, road runners and rattlesnakes have all made an appearance. I guess for just a day visit, my experience there doesn't help much, but everywhere you go are people who you can develop lasting friendships. Eat at Cafe Margarita, get a premium steak at the Longhorn (don't get a cheap steak, you get what you pay for) and tell them Brian sent you. I always enjoy the idea of them saying, "Brian who?" I haven't been back in an while, but if you say, "the guy that bought old crazy Larrys place", then they'll remember who you're talking about.

[@harlockgft8884]

I agree 100 percent. Every person who we talked too who lives and works in Tombstone became instant friends with us. It's a very tight knit community and we loved it.

[@harlockgft8884]

You own a place in tombstone?

[@Maxid1]

@@harlockgft8884 I do. There are usually a lot of properties available, so finding one shouldn't be a problem. Although I haven't checked recently.

[@ZephyrTravels]

It has been a number of years since we have been to Tombstone, I have forgotten how much of a tourist trap the town is. Everything there comes with a price tag. Even BootHill cemetery charged admission to visit the grave sites. 🤑 . Bisbee looked like a great find, some place to add to our Embracing Detours bucket list of places to visit. You guys should create your top ten list of places to visit! 👍

[@EmbracingDetours]

It's crazy, right?!?! 💸💸💸 We love old Western towns and wanted to like it so much more than we did. Bisbee was great, add it and Lowell to your list - Lowell is supposed to be a really cool ghost town right around the corner from Bisbee, we missed it unfortunately. And you're right, we really should do more of those type videos...

[@terrimccain9697]

I have heard of tombstones is a joke glad to watch this video

[@EmbracingDetours]

Honestly, we were pretty disappointed by it but I'm sure my not feeling well and the weather being bad didn't help matters.

[@rdnysal]

very nice im from tucson all the places id been to you for sure got the jist of highlights in area What fun . I so love Bisbee never done the stairs though , Geat video and loving the new you / hairstyle Looks like you just stepped off the cover of VOGUE magazine.

[@jc1417]

I just got back from AZ. What time where you there? I have never seen Tombstone or Bisbee so dead.

[@EmbracingDetours]

We were there in early December, it was pretty dead. The weather the day we were in Tombstone was really awful, I don't think it came across in the video just how cold and windy it really was. I'm sure that didn't help matters.

[@richardburgess5215]

I didn't see a Walmart anywhere, isn't that nice !

[@EmbracingDetours]

Indubitably!

[@johnbudinger8906]

Bisbee is the hometown of J.A. Jance (www.jajance.com/) a writer of mystery books. They are great reads and many of them use Bisbee or that area for one of her series of stories.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thank you for sharing that, I'll have to check her out!! Funny you should mention writers, I met a couple very interesting characters at the hair salon - one was an editor and the other a writer. I enjoyed a lovely conversation with them, Bisbee seems to be full of interesting characters.

[@jwrappuhn71]

Good vid ya'll.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching and commenting!!!

[@kennyhernandez2846]

First off I thought all Arizona was flat and lot of desert man I seen a lot of hills second off you guys whole lot younger than me I'm 54 I can see me breathing hard you guys ride bikes and everything so if you guys were breathing hard I would have not made it halfway up the steps that would have been it for me and I'm in good shape but you guys are in great shape be safe out there another great video looking forward to the next one take care

[@EmbracingDetours]

Arizona is a very diverse state, a lot of varied and unexpected terrain. There is something about stairs that take my breath away... And that was a lot of stairs!!

[@harlockgft8884]

So I disagree with what many people say about tombstone. How its "pay for everything" how else are these people suppose to make a living? not only that but their are plenty of beautiful sites and vistas to explore. My fiance and I are from NY and we absolutely loved it. We love the old west and want to make it our home. I'm a history buff as well and just the fact that it is still a functioning town is impressive.

[@lonniepate341]

If your in Tombstone and go by the Boot Hill Cemetery, say hello to my cousin James Bowles. He’s buried there. The story on him is he got drunk one night, fell off his horse, shot himself in the leg and didn’t go to a doctor and died of his wound.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Oh my, that's one way to die 😳 Thanks for sharing!

[@bonnefires5835]

I fully expected the shootout reenactment to happen on the street behind you while you were walking down the street.

[@EmbracingDetours]

That would have been AWESOME!!!! 😆

[@davidbrickey5925]

👍

[@EmbracingDetours]

Thanks! 😊

[@mwb6772]

Did you spelunkers get to visit Kartchner Caverns? Not far from Tombstone. Hair looks good!

[@EmbracingDetours]

Phooey, we missed it!! That's a shame, I am a fan of spelunking 😆 Honestly, in hindsight we didn't make the most of time there but I just wasn't feeling up to much for a few days. We'll have to return!

[@paulbetka1803]

I've gone through your video library.. Have you been to Michigan ✋ Where I'm at ✋🙏😀 March 29 2020. Country in a volunteer quarantine

[@patriciaporter1688]

Would love to say Hi if you come up to Cottonwood Az.

[@EmbracingDetours]

I'm sad to say Central and Northern Arizona isn't on our route this time around unfortunately. I know we'll be back to spend more time in those parts of the State one of these days, we'd love to say hi!!

[@stinkysrvadventures8620]

Karcher caverns close by

[@EmbracingDetours]

I'm disappointed we missed it but it's been added to our list for next time. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@Dougcrockett27]

Stagecoach dude in period-costume, checking out his cell phone at 1:43. LOL

[@EmbracingDetours]

Haha, I wondered if someone would notice that!!! 🤣 Good eye 👀

[@mikebrady7303]

How can anyone give this a thumbs down??? It has to be the same 11 or 12 people every time. May you 12 should just stop watching. Great videos! Keep them coming!

[@EmbracingDetours]

We ❤️ you for saying that 🤗 Thank you!!!

[@stinkysrvadventures8620]

Karchner.

[@EmbracingDetours]

👍

[@sandratessem9980]

You haven't been to Ajo, Arizona

[@EmbracingDetours]

We'll have an Organ Pipe video coming up in a couple weeks but we didn't stop in Ajo. Did we miss out?

[@RandyBunting-ci9iq]

Are you two not I tubing any longer

[@johnphillips1345]

Bot some land out their moving soon

[@nathanielcohen9890]

tombstone is a great place to live. thinking seriously about moving back. bisbee.....is a strange place. it's not even a fun place to visit. one of the rudest places i have ever been too.

[@fairrider3346]

IT ALWAYS FEELS GOOD TO GET A HAIR CUT.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Always. I really shouldn't wait so long.

[@ridingtheroad185]

I thought maybe you were at Technomadia's spot there! Safe travels.

[@EmbracingDetours]

Funny you mention them, they were actually there the same time as us and we met them walking around the campground. Very nice people. Thanks!

[@Jay_Hall]

Great place, thanks! The Earps were most interesting, and Wyatt was a mans man!

[@EmbracingDetours]

Our pleasure! The Earps are intriguing, wish I'd been feeling better and the weather had cooperated so we could have learned a bit more about them and shared it with you guys.

[@Jay_Hall]

@@EmbracingDetours Well, I am sure Wyatt and his brothers, and Doc. Holiday would have found the two of you most interesting, and would have shared time with you. :)

[@bootmender]

Bisss-Beee not benson, Damm Yankees!

[@EmbracingDetours]

Lol our campground was in Benson and we drove an hour south to visit the town of Bisbee! Jeesh 😆