奥拉AURA

我知道也喜欢这些地方，但是我请那个记录我们聊天记录的家伙写点关于比斯比的东西，因为他对这方面非常了解。对于杰罗姆和比斯比来说，有一件事千真万确的:当他们那里有价值的东西可以开采时，人口剧增;而当这些东西被开采完以后，人口又一下子骤降了，只留下开采者视为垃圾的东西。不管怎么说，这是我们的抄录员说的:
I know and love these places, but I asked the fellow who has been transcribing our chats to write something up about Bisbee because he knows it very well. One thing that’s true of both Jerome and Bisbee is how their populations exploded when they offered something valuable to extract from the earth, and then imploded when the goods had been taken, leaving nothing but what the extractors viewed as debris. Anyway here’s what our scribe says:

比斯比
Bisbee

比斯比是我喜欢的地方，或许我就是半个比斯比人。尽管我在这个网站上所做的只是写下别人的谈话，但我猜你们选我来讲比斯比的事情，可能就是因为我和我妻子在那里有一栋“休闲”屋，而且很多年来一直很喜欢，哪怕是在冬天。那里很少下雪，即使下也是一点点。偶然下下，更显得漂亮。我们来到这里的主要原因是逃离图森市炎热的夏季。比斯比的气温通常比图森低10到15度，在夏季，这就意味着酷热和舒适的大不同了。
Bisbee is my kind of town, or maybe I’m just kind of Bisbee. Even though all I did for this site was write down the conversation the others had, I guess I’m elected to tell you about Bisbee, probably because my wife and I had a “getaway” house there for many years and really dug it, even in winter. Snow is pretty rare in ol’ Biz, and shortlived at that. That makes its rare appearance all the more pretty. Mostly what got us there was getting out of the summer heat of Tucson. Bisbee is usually maybe 10, 15 degrees cooler than Tucson, and in the summer, that can mean the difference between excruciating and borderline comfortable.

除非你是从墨西哥来的，否则到亚利桑那州南部基本上都是走10号州际公路。本森岔道通过AZ80号公路把你带到比斯比以北50英里的地方。本森很酷的一件事就是去参观那里的洞穴。这不是一个很大的城镇，下了10号州际公路后，大约开6英里，就可以好好欣赏一下右手边的洞穴。然后回到80号公路去墓碑镇，那里仍然有老西部的样子，甚至还有当年OK牧场的枪战重现。我应该带科罗纳多去墓碑镇，因为美国西部他似乎只知道道奇城。从80号公路右转，往西走一个街区，去那里看看为什么墓碑镇值得一看。我提到这些去比斯比会路过的地方，不仅仅是因为它们顺路，还因为它们本身就很特别。
Unless you're coming up from Mexico, the most likely way you'll find yourself in southern Arizona is on I-10. The Benson turnoff puts you about 50 miles north of Bisbee via AZ 80. One cool thing about Benson is tours of the caves there. It’s not a big town so just keep your eyes open for the caves on the right about six miles after you get off I-10. Then get back on 80 to Tombstone that still has an old west look, and even reenactments of the shootout at the OK corral. I ought to bring Coronado to Tombstone since all he seems to know about the wild west is Dodge City. Just hang a right from 80 to go west a block to see what makes Tombstone worth the stop. I mention these places that are on the way to Bisbee not just because they’re on the way, but because they’re special in their own right.

看完墓碑镇之后，回到80号公路，一直开到一条隧道，与埃隆·马斯克现在建的隧道相比，那条隧道已经非常老旧了。但是这是另一段有趣的旅程。当你出隧道的时候，你会看到比斯比就在你左边的山上，如果你开在80号公路上的话，你将与比斯比的主要街道平行前行，那条街叫做墓碑峡谷。在80号公路上，你还会觉得自己像只鸟，从高处俯瞰整个城市。但如果你想要近距离看看那些地方，出隧道后不久就右拐，进入墓碑峡谷街，一直开，然后再右转，经过峡谷的底部，大部分老商业区就在那里。一开始你会经过一些人家，最终到达市中心，我建议你住在那里的铜皇后酒店，这是一个令人骄傲的古老地方，里面有一家很不错的餐厅。我最喜欢的早餐是墨西哥式煎蛋。如果你过了隧道以后走80号公路，那么一旦在你的左边看到市区了，右转，你就到铜皇后了。然后沿着弯路右转， 在80号公路下方，穿过主街(也被称为墓碑峡谷街)。然后，在你到达啤酒厂大街之前的一个街区，你在豪厄尔街向左转，爬上一座陡峭的小山，然后你就可以在酒店前停下，卸下你的行李了。
After Tombstone, get back on 80 till you eventually enter a long tunnel that’s antique compared to what Elon Musk would make today. But it’s a fun ride to the other end. When you come out, you’ll see Bisbee spread over the hills to your left, and if you stay on 80, you’ll be driving parallel to Bisbee’s main street that's called Tombstone Canyon. You'll feel like a bird seeing the town from above if you stay on 80. - But if you want to get a close-up of pretty much the whole thing, hang a right soon after the tunnel to get onto Tombstone Canyon heading down and right through the floor of the canyon that most of old Biz is built along. You’ll pass houses at first, and eventually you’ll get to downtown where I suggest you stay at the Copper Queen hotel, a proud old place with a decent restaurant inside. My favorite is huevos rancheros for breakfast. If you decided to stay on 80 after the tunnel, though, you get to the Copper Queen by turning right once you see downtown down on your left, and then following that curve right around as it goes under 80 till you cross Main Street (that's also called Tombstone Canyon). Then, just about a block before you end up on Brewery Ave, you want to make a left on Howell going up a steep hill where you can stop in front of the hotel to unload your bags.

在你安顿下来之后，你可能还记得从80号公路开过来，经过比斯比皇后矿时那个向右的急转弯。那是地下矿山之旅的起点处。它是比斯比最独特的地方了，如果你不坐一列小型地下火车，你就会错过一个机会，去看看它从哪里来，并且需要经过多大的努力才弄到它。一旦他们给你戴上安全帽和一盏灯，你就会觉得自己属于那里了。你也可以在市中心闲逛，在商店和画廊等地方看看，度过一段美好的时光。由于低廉的租金，啤酒厂峡谷的房屋吸引了很多艺术家。一个行业的离开对房地产价值的影响是惊人的。比斯比曾经是一个公司小镇，铜矿开采是它的命脉。这个矿井在1965年关闭了。80年代初，我和妻子觉得比斯比是个避暑的好地方，于是我们就去找房子，最后在一次止赎拍卖中以6500美元的价格买了一座。当美国房地产市场在2006年疯涨的时候，我们以12万美元的价格出售。多年来，越来越多的游客发现了比斯比，这主要是由于艺术家们在那里找到了便宜的住所。现在你仍然可以在那里找到便宜的房子，只需要好好去看看。
After you’ve settled in, you may remember passing the Bisbee Queen Mine that you passed during that hard right from 80. That’s where the underground mine tour starts. That’s probably the most unique thing about Bisbee, and you’ll be missing out if you don’t get on tthe small underground train that used to haul the rock out to see where it came from and the work it took to get to it. You’ll feel like you belong there once they outfit you with a hard hat and a lamp. You’ll also have a good time just wandering around downtown, stopping in the shops, galleries, etc. Houses up Brewery Gulch appeal to artists thanks to cheap rents. It’s breathtaking what an industry’s leaving town can do to property values. Bisbee was a company town, and mining copper was its lifeblood. The mine closed in 1965, and when my wife and I decided in the early 80s that Bisbee would be a good spot to cool off from Tucson’s hot summers, we went house hunting and ended up buying one at a foreclosure sale for $6500. When the US real estate market went nuts in 2006, we sold for $120,000. Bisbee’s having been discovered by more and more tourists over the years, mostly on account of the artists finding cheap digs there, helped also. But you can still find very cheap digs there. You just have to look.

虽然不是在古色古香的老比斯比，但是薰衣草矿坑近在咫尺，所以在很多旅游文献中都有所提及。它表明，为了满足我们的物质欲望，我们的人类同胞可以对地球做些什么。它不像陨石坑那样具有几何特征，但它依然是地面上的一个大洞。回到80号公路，绕着薰衣草矿坑，一直开到比斯比早餐俱乐部，在那里能俯瞰整个矿坑。比斯比早餐俱乐部的独特之处在于，它是在比斯比陷入困境之后创立的，但它已经充分展现了特色，并在图森市开了几家分店。它不是铜皇后，但他们也有墨西哥式煎蛋，还有很多其它的选择。
Though it’s not in quaint old Bisbee, the Lavender Pit mine is real close and is mentioned in most of the tourist literature. It shows what our fellow man can do to the earth in the quest to feed our materialistic appetites. It’s not as geometrical as Meteor Crater, but it’s one heck of a hole in the ground. Just get back on 80 and hug the pit till you get to the Bisbee Breakfast Club that overlooks it. The Bisbee Breakfast Club is kind of unique in that it started after Bisbee fell on hard times, but has proven itself sufficiently to have opened a couple branches in Tucson. It’s not the Copper Queen, but they’ve got huevos rancheros, tambien. And plenty of other choices, too.

毕竟，最吸引人的是这个小镇的魅力和风景。杰罗姆也一样，它离峡谷更近。除非你像西内一样，是岩石采集者，或者我们的飞碟标志的设计师，来自矿业集团的戴夫·加斯基。
The main attraction, after all is said and done, is the town’s charm and scenery. Same for Jerome that's much closer to the Canyon. Unless you’re a rockhound, that is, like Sine, or the designer of our flying saucer logo, Dave Garski of Minerals and More.

● 比斯比的历史
● Bisbee's history

● 概况
● Overview

● 地下矿山参观，时间、费用
● Underground mine tour, Hours, Fees

● 矿山路线方位
● Mine tours directions

● 矿山虚拟游
● Virtual mine tour

● 十天天气预报
● 10 day weather forecast