Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Benson, Arizona

 Hey, weird, it looks just like the photos of Arizona ...

Three and a half hours of travel on Highway 10 today got us into Benson, Arizona.  We're staying here for a week while we explore the area.  There's a lot of old mining towns and caverns to see, not to mention the one and only Tombstone, Arizona, which is about half an hour away.


There are a lot of cotton fields in the Buckeye area, which surprised me because I thought that crop was grown in the Deep South.  The cotton fields continued almost all the way to Benson today, which leads me to believe it might be the number one crop in southern Arizona.  It looks like most of the crop is harvested, but there are a few places where the machines are still plucking the cotton balls off the dried-up bushes, and there are huge bales of cotton lining the dirt farm roads.

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