Hotel Plaza Inn Los Mochis

... is more cultivated, looks a big cereal area, very flat right to the hills on the horizon, almost like home.
As I approached Los Mochis it looked like I was heading for the hills but it was only for about 5km then back on the plains again.
Hotel El Doradao a bit more up market and expensive but occasionally I'm worth and they have safe parking and free Internet.
I had sussed out a Chinese restaurant for a change on the way I got ...

Nothing really special in Los Mochis on the Sea of Cortes. This is where we were catching the train to Copper Canyon. We drove around a little bit but nothing too exciting. The traditional city grid setup and a short drive outside of town is the car ferry terminal. This is where you can catch a car ferry to La Paz, Baja Califorinia. We were up at 4:30am to catch the 6:00am train to Copper Canyon. Yes, when the train ...

... get 2 answers that match - SNAP! - and decide to follow the map in that direction. Our hotel of choice is a **** hole. The small step down over the threshold may as well be the long drop down to the gates of the underworld. The dim lighting, if you can legally use the word lighting without contravening the trades descriptions act, corroborates these initial thoughts as Eli finds out that the dance music we can hear is coming from the strip joint next ...

From Creel I enjoyed a scenic, if slow, train ride to Los Mochis. I had the misfortune of sitting next to a middle aged hispanic guy from Ohio who didn't speak a word of Spanish. His mission in life: make it to Cabo to party with Sammy Hagar and pick up chicks. Fate, in the form of an M16 toting soldier, saved me from what would have been an excrutiating ride. When a guy with a machine gun ...

... Star with the help of our broken Spanish...Jess secured the bike and had booked a Junior Suite for us so we would not have to wear all the gear for the 6 hour journey. The ferry wasn't too bad and the suite was awesome. We slept in a little bit before trying to find something to eat, we found the cafeteria and a restaurant but since Jess opted for the cheapest cafeteria option, the food was kind of ...

... and much more livestock (some of it dead by the train tracks!) there were ranches and people on horseback. That in turn rolled into huge fertile plains which seemed to be devoted to fruit growing. I love these sorts of journeys; you spend all your time surmising what crop is what? Who's going where and why? What's going on...... before we knew it the countryside gently gave way to suburbia and the train arrived at Chihuahua, without a hairless dog in sight.

... waterfront walkway we have ever seen. Everyone was out and about from 6:oo on and enjoying a most spectacular sunset. The Pelicans were fishing and then settling down for the night in the forground. In the background wwere many boats ranging from luxury cruisers to bare bones touring rigs. Our hotel, the Mediterrane, had rooms named after the Greek ...

... the hunt for food (anyone that knows me well knows that nothing stands in the way of me and food when I get the hunger). The streets were totally deserted. Just a few stary dogs and police cars patrolling. It felt like a curfew. I was walking for at least an hour in the seriously strong rain and gale force winds. At one point a stray dog latched itself onto me. I kept telling him he's wasting his time with me: firstly I have no food buddy and secondly if you ...

... than Australia. She had taken a 30 hour flight to London from Sydney...Now has been travelling in Mexico for a few weeks by herself...insane! Ah...at last at our hotel! Looks very luxurious. It is a treat! In comparison to last night's spider and scorpion infested "Roach Motel" in Urique........