This is a picture of "El Chepe" aka the Copper Canyon Train, which we got up at 5:30am today to catch. What you can't see with the naked eye is that this train is actually going backwards (!!). That's because of this...
...or this is what I can only assume it looks like. An hour into our journey the conductor announced malas noticias and said we had to return to the station and maybe we would try again tomorrow, or another day, they really don't know. All they know is that there was a landslide because of heavy rains. I thought we were going to miss out on all the nasty rain back at home but I guess it found us here.
So we're stuck in a town called Los Mochis. I can't say it's my favorite town but at least they sell churros on every other street corner, and on the other corners they sell pancakes. But that's about it for positive comments. So the options are to wait an indefinite amount of time for the tracks to be cleared and maybe repaired or take a detour that could take up to 3 days, be expensive and not involve a cool train ride. Unfortunately we don't have time on our side since we have to be in El Paso by next monday. Hmm...
So we're here for at least one night because we didn't want to get on a bus today. Hopefully tomorrow they'll at least know how long it might take to clear. My guess is we'll end up on the bus.
Oh well.
Here are some pictures of Mazatlán. A Clamatto stand (Clamateria). There we're quite a few of these, can't say we visited any.
And here is a picture of the two of us.
2 comments:
okay, it's true i do really like how many churros there are here. and also those were the best quesadillas i've had so far on the trip.
The colorway on that train is real nice.
I'm excited to see all your bronica shots, Darin told me you got one!
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