From Ajo, AZ to Tucson, AZ, Pima Air Museum, Boneyard, Old Tucson Movie sets, Titan, Copper Mine
From Ajo, I took a secondary road through an Indian reservation which was littered with thousands of beer bottles and hundreds of little shrines where people died in traffic accidents. All were decorated with flowers and some had bottles of fluid in case the ghosts got thirsty. Along this road were several groups of Mexicans who had hiked up through the desert from Mexico to this road. In some groups were children and I can’t imagine what the hike was like. They were waiting for rides and if the Border patrol got there first, back they would go.
While camped at the Elks Lodge in 
The Old Tucson Studios are located over the mountains in the middle of a vast empty desert. It was here that over 250 movies have been filmed the oldest was the movie
South of Tucson is the only Titan Missile Silo still in existence. There were 55 scattered around the west at the height of the cold war and this one is the only one left and is open for tours. The control room is many feet underground and the silo still holds a dummy Titan. Pretty huge when you are standing 3 feet from it.
South of the Titan site is another open pit copper mine and unlike the one in Ajo, this one is still in limited production. The pit is huge, over 2 miles across and 1 mile wide. It is 1500 feet deep. A tour was given of the production facility and showed how ore is processed into copper.
