Santa Anita Hotel Los Mochis

... by Officer Obed he kept me talking for almost an hour and was trying to set me up with some women at the market, I don't know if it was a honey trap or he was concerned about my welfare. At least it wasn't lady boys. The Chinese was closed so I had a monster chicken soup with half a chicken in it and a steak instead.
Somehow lost an hour to the time bandits, they don't warn you when the time zone changes you just arrive late or early.

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 ...

... humers with machinegun turents on there roofs, but once again didn't get stopped thankfully. Not much to see, just had tacos again for super, played a round of 500 rummy, and slept at the good old Pemex gas station, little noisy but free.

... some kind of alien, I lay on the paper-thin sheet that separates me from countless mattress stains and manage to will myself into a sleep that involves zero turning or rolling. Not surprisingly, the first thing we do the following morning is to look for new digs. Pretty quickly we find the 1 star Hidalgo hotel - being on the first floor is so much of a metaphor for comparison. The rooms are light, the air-con doesn't blow out a plume of dust and the ...

... Make that one ticket to Mazatlan. I don't even know this guy She laughed, sold me a ticket, and wished me a good journey. My "friend" was none the wiser. I told him I'd see him in a minute (figuratively, of course) and hopped the bus as he struggled to buy a ticket. He ought learn Spanish. I slept the whole way to Mazatlan and arived at sunrise. Luckily I never ran into my friend in Mazatlan.

... stay at was fully booked and we were booked into another which we were assured was *** at least. Well it was the biggest dump and Jenny and I were not happy bunnies. Just to cap it all, the bar had no gin, no wine no anything except beer and coke! We negotiated a long trip out the next day to get away from it all. Considering Creel is such a dump, the surrounding countryside is stunning. It's just a few miles from the main rugged canyon, much greener ...

We´ve been quite a few beautiful places since our last update. On Thursday morning we headed out to the tourist bus station from our hotel just down the road in San Jose del Cabo. We hadn´t intended to take that route but the taxi driver dumped us off, kind of annoyed that we weren´t going to the airport. It turned out that we had a great first class ...

... grabbed the chance for lunch and ordered 2 delicious pancakes filled with beef stew, onion and chillie (Mmmmmm ummmmm). Only set me back $2. I had to see for myself how bad the seas were so wading through road-rivers up to my knees and went to the sea. It really was rough (nearly made me sea-sick just looking at it). Boats anchored were being tossed around like toys and palm trees were bent half way to the ground. Found a cafe that offered free 15 minutes on ...

... we will meet them in Mexico City one day.... After the exquisite cuisine, we settle for the night......Keith is sleeping like a baby throughout the night, but Kim is too anxious....the ferry is rocking slightly and she can hear the thunder clapping throughout the night... Yea, ferry accident in Greece comes to her mind... Morning comes at last... "A Baja....Down Under, here we come!!!"

... As we watched the scenery of one of the world's great train rides roll by, he mentioned that you could pay extra to sit on top of the train. Didn't make sense, especially given all the tunnels we'd pass through, (I pictured cartoon-like decapitations and action adventures on top of trains) but I was intrigued. Soon enough, I found myself mired in friendly, stilted, bilingual conversation with some of El Chepe's staff, the kind that arrives at the ...