BOOT HILL & FAIRBANK
John had warned me before heading out to Tombstone that it was a tourist trap and that the only decent thing about it was Boot Hill, and even there you have to walk through a gift shop to enter. The original grave markers have all been replaced primarily with generic metal crosses painted beige. While I do get a few photos in, the most interesting discovery is a Jewish cemetery segregated from the main area.We follow Boot Hill with a quick stop in Tombstone. Quick because it doesn't interest me in the least and I'm concerned that we're running out of good light for future discoveries. So we get back on the road after lunch only to discover the ghost town of Fairbank just a few miles west of Tombstone. Here we also discover a cemetery that is what Boot Hill should be--isolated and authentic.
Somewhere between Fairbank and Sahuarita we stop to take some photos. This area was spotted by John's wife, who's beginning to develop her own photographic eye. In fact, she's the only one among us to ever take a decent photo of a windmill.
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