Getting out of Dodge

All we knew for sure when we started our Arizona trip with friends Susan and Philip Curti was that we would drive and that we would spend eight nights in our hotel in Tucson. Susan and Philip encouraged side trips on the way out and back.

Guy studied the map and found that Dodge City, Kansas, was only a little out of the way. As it turned out, we easily viewed the Gunsmoke mainstreet and toured the gift shop faster than the flick of a gila monster's tongue -- got out of Dodge fast!

Our next cowboy side trip was more fun - the Dalton brothers' hideout in Meade, Kansas. It was a beautiful little farmhouse with big shade trees and a secret tunnel for the outlaws to use as an excape hatch. If they'd only skipped the bank robberies they could have had beautiful picnics in the back yard.