Los Tres Rios Culiacan

... 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 ...

Ok I know there is going to miscommunications between people but this one was big. I'm not going to go into detail but a 3 hour bus rid to hang out with some friends for the night turned into a 10 hour ride jammed in a suv with 7 others to go to a WEDDING! Ok, I don't have any nice cloths with me and I wasn't planning on 10 hours in a car. At least I got some free food.

... Mexican sushi! That's oxymoronic! These aren't Japanese dudes that moved to Mexico and opened a sushi restaurant, this was the Japanese equivalent of the mall food-court favorite: Hot-Dog-On-A-Stick!..... with Mexicans in lame uniforms making pollo-maki rolls! I'm glad Malin spoke to them on the phone...I was close to laughing and crying at the same time...I just had them add 4 Tecates to the order...that should fix things. So anyway, Malin and I laughed our ...

After driving all day, we arrived at a small town named... Costa Rica, definitely something to be confused here! City of Costa Rica in Mexico! We were looking for the road to the campsite and wound up on progressively smaller... bumpy..., dirt roads and we eventually got stuck on the rail road track... with the travel-trailer. We discovered some damage to the bumper (a little crooked ...

... since we left California. A family consisting of a Mother, Father and their two daughters aging 5 and 7 made friends with us, and helped us alot through many of the bus changes we had to make, to ensure our backpack followed us on the same bus. We've so far found Mexican people to be very lovely. Every where I go in these ...

... s BIG and HEAVY and boards get snapped, and you need to be really experienced to ride it. So if you dont hear from me youŽll know why ;) I just got back from a little boat ride around the bay here. I originally went for it because it had a picture of someone diving off a big rock and thats what i wanted to go and do. It turns out that we didnt go anywhere of the sort, or if we did they didnt inform me about it, although we did go near ...

A whole new world greets us this morning. The trip to Los Mochis after the ferry docked (9:30pm) was completely uneventful. We were reluctant to drive at night, but the highway was very well used, a divided 4 laner, and good speed was maintained by all vehicles for the 20 km to ...

Not quite satisfied with our Mazatlan experience, we headed North toward Los Mochis to track down a campground allegedly on a deserted beach by a small fishing village. Crossing through the agricultural hub of Mexico, we now know where all the corn is grown. Thousands of acres of corn line the state of Sinaloa. The landscape was reminiscent of the drive from Sacramento to Chico in Northern California. The town of Guasave was our turning ...

I am finally back on the blog site, but only to do some quick updates on the journey to Monterrey. I hope in the next few days to do the really juicy stuff about my three weeks in Monterrey with the rotten fruit, shooting red lights, flirting with policemen and generally immersing myself in mexican life. I am still photo-less too - so generally a fat lot of good to you really!! Sorry. Anyway - on 15 June I left Mazatlan - bye bye beach bar and ...