It\u2019s Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 We drove from Yuma to San Diego earlier today.\u00a0 We\u2019re currently in our exceedingly lovely hotel room with the sliders open to a sunny patio, a paved walkway, followed by sandy beach.\u00a0 I do not want to move from this spot, but unfortunately staying here indefinitely is not an option.\u00a0 We\u2019re on a book tour after all.\u00a0 Bill is dozing over his iPad, and Bella is zonked out on the bed.\u00a0 Have I mentioned that doing book tours is hard on man and beast alike?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not often you get a few hours off on a tour, and so we\u2019re all really relishing this mini-vacation, because it turns out to be the second one this week.\u00a0 On Monday, after the noon-time Sierra Vista signing, we took our granddaughter and her fianc\u00e9 over to Bisbee for a \u201chit the high spots\u201d tour.\u00a0 We went to Santiago\u2019s at the bottom of Brewery Gulch for lunch.<\/p>\n
My chile relleno was TERRIFIC!!\u00a0 (By the way, for those of you who are outlanders in the American Southwest, the proper pronunciation of Chile Relleno is CHILL-EE RE-EE-NO.\u00a0\u00a0 If you say CHILE RE-LAN-NO\u2014that’s a good way to get run out of Dodge.\u00a0 Ditto for Fajitas.\u00a0 That\u2019s pronounced FAH HEE TAS.\u00a0 And do not ever call Tacos \u2014TAY-KOES\u2014 or Enchiladas \u2014 EN-CHEE-LADES.\u00a0 The first time you come to Arizona to visit, you will thank me for this handy pronunciation guide to Arizona foodstuffs.<\/p>\n
Geographic names can also cause difficulties.\u00a0 Gila Bend is pronounced HEE-LAH BEND.\u00a0 The Huachuca Mountains are the WAH-CHOO-KAZ.\u00a0 And the mountains on the far side of the Sulphur Springs Valley, the Chiricahuas, are pronounced the CHEER-EH-KOW-AZ.<\/p>\n
Wait, I\u2019m off topic here.\u00a0 Thinking about the food at Santiago’s sent me into a spasm.\u00a0 What I really wanted to talk about was going back to Bisbee on our mini-vacation.<\/p>\n
As we walked into the restaurant, I saw that one of the Lavender Jeep Tour vehicles was parked half a block away in front of the Copper Queen Hotel.\u00a0 When people write to me asking about what to do when they visit Bisbee, I often mention the jeep tour, but I hadn\u2019t ever been on it.\u00a0 That changed during the late afternoon hours on Monday.<\/p>\n
I loved seeing the town through the eyes of someone who no longer lives there\u2014noting familiar and some unfamiliar places.\u00a0 Believe it or not, there are some streets in Old Bisbee on which I had never before ventured.\u00a0 But it was also fun seeing it through the eyes of people who had never been there before.\u00a0 I had initially envisioned Bill doing the driving and me doing the talking.\u00a0 Instead, we had someone else driving with me chiming in here and there with the tour-guidey stuff.\u00a0 (Spell-checker is NOT going to like the word guidey!)<\/p>\n
So if your going to Bisbee to visit, don\u2019t write to me for advice:\u00a0 Do the following: Book the Lavender Jeep Tour.\u00a0 That\u2019s a must.\u00a0 If you\u2019re staying overnight, the Copper Queen Hotel is a good bet.\u00a0 For a fine dining evening experience, try Cafe Roka\u2014but check their hours first.\u00a0 They\u2019re not open every evening.\u00a0 And for great Mexican food, definitely Santiago\u2019s.<\/p>\n
You can tell them all that I sent you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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