The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
Parts of two extended road trips from California to Florida.
Yuma
I arrived in Yuma from Palm Springs, as part of my initial all-electric road trip.
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Frost scores some well-deserved Electrify America juice
Outside a Yuma Target.
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| Yuma Territorial Prison
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| Guard Tower, over granite water tank
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| Main "Sallyport" gate
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| High security cell block.
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| "This is all just a misunderstanding."
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| "I'm an innocent man, I tell you!"
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| Fellow Inmates
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| "I'm glad we got that straightened out."
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| Inmate Demographics
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| Inmate Crimes
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| Yuma High School Wrestlers: "The Criminals"
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| St Thomas Church (1922)
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| Derelict Yuma Fort
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| The Colorado River, at Yuma
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Phoenix
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| Old State Capitol
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| Old State Capitol
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| Heritage Square: Rosson House Museum
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| A UFO donut. It was good!
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| Scottsdale: Alien Donuts
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| Frost sips some juice, at a Walmart outside Phoenix
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Phoenix: Desert Botanical Garden
Cave Creek Regional Park: Quartz Trail
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| A forest of Saguaro
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| Quartz Trail quartz outcropping
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Tucson
I drove my BMW i3 back to Palo Alto, paused for a few weeks, then flew into Tucson and resumed my trip in a hard-working Kia Soul.
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| Pima County Courthouse (1929)
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| Pima County Courthouse
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Monument to US "Mormon battalion"
Who passed through Tucson peacefully
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| Route of Mormon Battalion (1847)
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| Sneak view into (closed) Presidio Museum
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Tombstone, Arizona
A slightly hokey memorial to the Old West and the Gunfight at the OK Corral
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| Old Tombstone Courthouse (1882)
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Gunfight at the OK Corral
A wonderful, hammy, silly, and entertaining re-enactment.
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| Doc Holliday and the Earp Brothers ("Hurrah!")
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| The Cowboys ("Boo!")
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| The showdown - Earps
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| The showdown - Cowboys
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| The shooting starts
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| The Cowboys are down
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| Our victorious Heroes
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| After the battle
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Boothill Cemetery
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| Boothill Cemetery
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| Grave of the "murdered" Cowboys
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| Ersatz "Les Moore" tombstone
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| Ersatz "Hanged by Mistake" tombstone
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Old Bisbee
A brief overnight stop at Old Bisbee on the way to El Paso
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| Old Bisbee
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| Old Bisbee
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| Bisbee: the Lavender Pit
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