Hot Tuna Buns, Goat Heads, Walkin’ Main, Cottonwood, AZ

I had written on the fridge white board “Dinner: Hot Tuna Buns.” LOL As a reminder, years and years ago I had found a recipe for Hot Tuna Buns. I thought perhaps it would be like a tuna melt and I thought it sounded good. When Kevin asked what was for dinner that night back then, I told him. For the first time ever his face scrunched up and he said, “Let’s go out to eat.” I never refuse going out to eat and out we went. The next week I had it on the menu and the same thing, Kevin’s face scrunched up and he said let’s go out to eat. Hum….I figured out something here! If I wanted to go out to dinner, all I had to do was put Hot Tuna Buns on the menu. 🤣 Now 2 things: 1. We can go out to eat anytime we want so I don’t “need” to have an excuse. 2. Kevin, even to this day, says that Hot Tuna Buns just doesn’t sound good to him but he is pretty sure it is delicious. HAHA

The work day seemed to go fast and afterwards we went to Cottonwood Cemetery for Find A Grave (footnote 1). There are two cemeteries right together. This cemetery has, oh, let me see if I can describe. Gravel with headstones and bigger rocks outlining the plot is a rectangle shape. Some rock rectangles are large as if a family plot with several headstones inside. There isn’t walking paths around them and they are laid out in 1/2 the cemetery. I went to the end and started walking. This place has 17 photo requests but no plot numbers so it was just randomly walking. I would look as far as I could see of these rock rectangles.

After walking for a while I felt my feet were walking funny. I looked down and my shoes were punctured and the soles completely covered in goat head thorns. Those sharp and painful ones! I couldn’t believe it. I decided I was done with that! Just beyond me were flat headstones in grass. I walked through there for a few minutes but quickly the sun was down so we left. 

Cottonwood’s Walkin’ On Main. This event was in Old Town section and was a street fair. We had to park 5 blocks away but that was fine. Main Street was blocked off and had a good amount of vendors on both sides of the street. At one intersection, there was a stage and a band playing. It was so fun to watch the people out dancing…lots of hippies. Kevin said the music was great. (I am 100% deaf,) We stood there awhile and then continued on to the next blocked off block and saw a car show. It was fun to see them; all were old and all but two were all fixed up. There was a Willys Jeep that was beefed up. As I was signing in American Sign Language with Kevin, the owner started signing to us. That made my day! He said he knew a little sign because his son is deaf. Love it!! That, of course, was my favorite car entry. 🙂 I was so excited about him signing that I didn’t get a picture of his vehicle. Then we went around again checking out a lot of the shops. No vacant stores there. One place is called Old Town Copper. Oh, they have beautiful things! And a lot is made here in Arizona. 

In Old Town Copper store is a sign about Prohibition and this place, even this building! Plus you could look down and see part of the old tunnel. Read the picture; great history!

Kevin enjoyed playing with his ham radio. As we would drive to our campsite, we thought it was so neat to see his tall ham radio antenna among the trees and bushes.

*The blog posts are taken from my daily travel journal. Would you believe – it takes me a 1/2 day every week to whittle down a week’s worth of journal so it won’t be too long for the post each week. HAHA Thank you for reading!

Footnote 1: Find A Grave – https://www.findagrave.com/about