Monday, February 19, 2007

Monday, Day 7




This morning was started with an early breakfast at the hotel. The usual American fare as well as Mexican. Very good and enough to last us through the day. We left the land of the Tarahumara Indians and the selling of their wares. These are a very shy and unasuming tribe of peoples. We never did see any of the men, at least, we don't think we did. Todays trip was a bit more "rocking" than we've had so far as we traveled over bridges and through tunnels.






This was the color of the sky this morning when we got up so we were not surprised to see some snow and as we rode down into the valley it turned to rain. The sky this evening was also red so we are hoping for fair sky's tomorrow. It should be dry as we will be traveling across the desert.





Today we also crossed the La Laja Bridge at an altitude of 6,750 feet. You can even see the tunnel that we had just exited before crossing over a deep gorge.
We ended up our day in a little town called Bahuichivo and we are overnighting on a side railing. Most of our coaches have high rock walls on either side of them so we will really hear the trains tonight as they pass. The town is up a very high hill so most of us decided not to do the climb. There are no restaurants in town so we all ate in our rigs.