2026

After leaving Whitewater Draw we continued our westward progress across southern Arizona. We made a brief stop in Tombstone, but as I mentioned before, there wasn't much for us there. We spent the night in the Coronado National Forest near Patagonia and the next morning we headed to the Paton Center For Hummingbirds. Started in the 1970's by Wally and Marion Paton and now operated by the Tucson Bird Alliance it illustrates what a couple…

After leaving Fort Bowie we stopped in to get oriented at the Chiricahua National Monument. We didn’t have enough time left in the day to see much, so we picked a map and came up with a plan for the following day. We talked for a while with Vince, who was bikepacking the back roads from Tucson to Las Cruces and had stopped in to top off his water before heading over the mountains. We met a few interesting people on this tour of the southwest, Vince was one of them.

As we left New Mexico behind we found ourselves in the far southeast corner of Arizona. We camped just down the road from Fort Bowie so we made that our first destination as our tour of the southwest continued across the southern portion of Arizona.