Onto Willcox

The town of Willcox, AZ is only about 20 or 30 minutes from our Wild West movie set attraction.  Willcox relies heavily on the old singing cowboy, Rex Allen, as a tourist attraction.  He died many years ago but they have a nice memorial, museum and street named after him.

Even his horse is buried a few feet from his statue.

Nice murals in the old historic part of town.

We also liked the rest stop off of i-10.  The rock formations are really interesting and similar to the Chiricahua National Park which is nearby.  These are some old mining cars as there was so much mining in Arizona a hundred years ago.  Most of these "ghost towns" were all here for miners back in the day.  Copper, silver and gold mines.

We crossed over into New Mexico and stayed the night in Lordsburg.  Honestly, this was the most unattractive, unappealing town I have seen.  There are a lot of run down towns in Oregon and Arizona due to logging or mining businesses that dried up.  But this one had nothing charming about it.  But our Comfort Inn was actually nice.  This is a deserted restaurant across the street from our motel.  No Mexican food was to be had at this joint.