These updates are getting a little ridiculous...too much to write so that I'm basically bullet -pointing what could be whole short stories.....anyway....
We took the train from Los Mochis to Creel, which was a beautiful day-long adventure. Taking the Chihuahua-Pacific railway was in fact probably my favorite thing of the entire Guatemala/Mexico adventure. It was a 10 hour journey through canyons and over rivers and through tree and cactus and small squatty town filled landscapes. We stopped in Divisidero to peer into the canyon's depth and grab some gorditas before jumping back in the train and landing in Creel for a couple days. There we hiked around the area quite a bit--visiting some hot springs, walking around the wild chaparral landscapes of caves--still inhabited by the Tarahumara--interesting rock formations, strange trees and shrubs, and then of course the occasional Tarahumara person, who generally kept very to themselves unless they were trying to sell baskets. I wasn't sure if they were afraid of us, or if they really just wanted to be left alone.
Then a bus to Chihuahua, where we spent a couple days again wandering around in the crazy heat. We went to the Mexican Revolutionary war museum/the house of Pancho Villa, where we saw the car he was assasinated in, among other things. We got our last fill of aguas frescas (large watered down juices sold in huge styrofoam cups). We bought cowboy boots....
Then an absurdly long bus ride...hopefully the last in for long time, to Pheonix, where we are now. We spent 3 hours stuck on the border in Juarez, which couldn't have been less exciting, but I suppose that's good, considering the possibilities. I don't think it's necessarily hotter here than anywhere else we've been, but I think it's made worse by the airconditioning--the goings in and goings out really wares on a person. We've spent a good amount of time at the Desert Botanical Gardens which are AMAZING, and tomorrow we are headed to Tucson.
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