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Copper Canyon Train Trips…Not in June
This is the one month I try NOT to schedule trips. The Sierras are at the end of the long dry season- rains will start in a couple weeks or so. This month is usually hot, even up in the hills and the dust is hard to settle. Once the rains start in July, things [...]
Full StoryDave Hensleigh, Copper Canyon Guide
People enjoy riding the rails through this vast land with Dave Hensleigh, and he enjoys it too. His experience, his keen insight on the land and culture of the country, his unbridled passion for the experience there- all of this combines to make him the ideal Copper guide. Dave hails from rural roots in Kansas [...]
Full StoryIndividualized trips to Copper Canyon
Do you like the idea of a personal guide in Copper Canyon? We can do that…actually it is our specialty. An individualized trip can be sculpted to fit your interests (food, the train, history, birdwatching, etc) , to your schedule, to your traveling style, and budget. People often ask what the best season is in [...]
Full StoryA few of Dave’s favorite things…
In no particular order, a few of the things I truly love: 1.Running along Lakeshore Boulevard after sunset in Chicago on a warm January day. 2.A snowstorm alone in a tent in April in Red Canyon, Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado 3.Madrugada (the dark before dawn) high over Yosemite. 4. The Copper Canyon train rolling up the Chihuahua [...]
Full StoryThe peso- better and better!
Each day now the past two weeks or so, the exchange rate has become more and more favorable with the peso. There were times last year when we could get 15 per dollar in Mexico. But those days are long gone. We were nearly down to 12.0 recently. Now things are on the rebound. Probably one [...]
Full StoryHealthcare in Mexico- Part 5- The walk in clinic
They call it a clinico- and there is a new one in El Fuerte. Now let me say first that I love this town and have many friends there. One is the barber, the hotel people, the little lady we often eat wuth and her family, guys at the market and more. The plaza there [...]
Full StoryNo gaurd rail-no gaurd anything! (Part 5)
The duo from Trans Americas Journey have done it again- this time a vivid description of the journey 1000s have taken but few have described so well. The journey down to Batopilas- here is a snippet: People talk about the drive down to the town of Batopilas deep in the Copper Canyon as a “white [...]
Full StoryGoing Down – Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico (Part 4)
Eric and Karen of Trans Americas Journey are not only great journalists, they are tough and eager hikers. They proved it on this descent into Copper on arguably one of the toughest trails I have seen. Here is their account… “Honestly, this trail was one of the hardest we’ve ever done, not because it was [...]
Full StoryTrans Americas Journey- part 3 from Copper Canyon
I just loved traveling last October with Eric and Karen of Trans Americas Journey…here is their part 3from their fantastic accounts of this majestic place…and yes I do get more and more excited as we get into the out of the way places around Copper. Take it in with great accounts of food, people, and [...]
Full StoryWAY Off the Train – Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico (Part 2)
I am bringing you parts and links to this incredible series fro Eric and Karen at Trans Americas Journey. These two were my good companions last Fall for almost two weeks in the unknown and known places of the majestic reaches of Copper Canyon Mexico. We made contact on twitter and planned out a grand venture [...]
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