Friday, May 7, 2004
Ft. Willcox RV Park, Willcox AZ - May 5-7
Finally tearing ourselves away from Benson, we managed to travel about 35 miles east to Willcox in order to visit the Chiricahua Mountains for a couple of days. We visited Chiricahua Natl Mon and drove their scenic loop, hiked on several beautiful trails and did some birdwatching. The next day we drove through a couple of canyons south of the Natl Monument, also looking for interesting birds and just enjoying the mountain scenery.
Willcox is home of Stout's Cider Mill which specializes in fresh, home-made apple pie. We had heard great things about their pies but were unimpressed. About all that was unusual was the fact that they put in so many apples that the pies are very tall. Quantity never makes up for quality in our book!
Also while here we got our first look at Comet NEAT, which has been visible for most of the month. Since our cg was on the Western edge of Willcox, we had very little light pollution from town.# posted by Doug and Willie @ 5:53 PM 
