Hotel Posada San Jorge Durango

Accommodation

Hotel La Siesta, Acuna No. 9, Tel: (01 842) 422-0374. Their current rates were 300 + 400 peso for 1 or 2 persons. The small, en-suite rooms come with cable TV but are a little overpriced for what's on offer.

... rasped out the hole with the tool provided, put the mushroom-shaped plug into the thingy, stuck the thingy into the hole, and twisted the handle on the thingy until the plug was pushed into the hole, mushroom-cap end first. Then I pulled on the stem of the plug to set it on the inside of the tire. Then I got out my mini air compressor and plugged it into the cigarette lighter outlet on my fairing, hooked it to the tire and flipped the switch. After 10 ...

For Friday dinner, the visiting brothers and I, head over to Seņora Clara Morenos. Her son, Alvero Moreno is in the work whom we also met in Chile. Her husband just had a stroke, but also came to convention. MartaVeloz came over to visit as well. Fidel Veloz, her son, lives in the Baja. Saturday we all gathered at Seņora Anitas for lunch. She worked as a ...

... also the home of many professing woman (around 20). There are no other professing males. The Garza family moved here from Monterrey two years ago to provide an open home. We had lunch with Sra. Lichas de Martinez, early meeting and potluck supper at Angelina Salinez. The friends prayed and a few of the workers took part. We are back to Rodolfo and Rachel ...

... since it is a sheet of metal directly behind the door with nothing to see. It would have done no good telling them from the start since they do not speak English. Anyway we got to the town and made our way to the campsite only to find that we where too tall to get in. We parked up and Mike went into the hotel to ask if there was another entrance. Apparently not but 10 minutes down the road is Sam's Club who let us park so all OK and we were able to spend an hour or so shopping ...

... and also to confirm again in the afternoon. Had another walk around town and had a traditional Mexican lunch which consisted of a pancake with crusted base with chilli, onions, salad and tuna (Ummmmmm mmmmmm) all for $3. Back to the hotel for laundry chores as I'm starting to smell like an old sock. No washing machines there so had to get it done at the laundry. Very different system to anything I've come across, they charge per kilo of clothes. I haven't got much so that was ...

... and we fell into conversation. Joe was seventy going on seventeen and he'd been all over the world on his travels. It was his third time in Mexico and he was on his way to Batopilas, a town with a sub-tropical climate located at the bottom of a deep canyon. It was several degrees below zero when we boarded the battered old school bus which served Batopilas at seven o'clock the following morning. After descending for an hour or so via an winding ice-covered road the ...

... the carriages watching the views slide by, munching on bread and cakes from a bakery in Los Mochis (great foresight on my part the day before - buying water and a packet of crisps on the train cost about 5 quid!!) and listening to Sara McLachlan, Tom Waits (and a bit of my country collection - it seemed appropriate!). We stopped at one place for about 15 minutes - time to stretch legs, wander round a small collection of stalls, and ...

... handle as a semi loaded(and i mean loaded) with boulders passes you on a curva peligrosa- it is quite entertaining to check out all the cargo in trucks on the road. See the photo of the semi carrying the dump truck twice its size for an example. Anyhoo....stayed in a hotel last night- dogs are in the truck- we are headed to some national parks in the mountains west of here. We are going to take it easy on the driving for the next few days...and enjoy the scenery...

... eventually managed to give up the sanctuary of our bed the next morning, about an hour after Dan had put the fire on to warm up the room to a reasonable temperature. Then once we'd bought a few snacks for the journey, we were back on board another bus - this time en route to Zacatecas. Unfortunately we both finished our books on this trip and are fast running out of English reading material! So we had to settle for watching 'The Runaway Bride ...