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Walk Across Juarez #6: Next Year?

Back to El Paso Back to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It was no fun going back across the border. It never is. The smiles are gone. The welcome is over. It is good to be back to US soil- it always is. But something very vital and valued [...]

Walk Across Juarez #2: Across the Bridge

Two weeks before the walk My right hand guide in Copper Canyon, Alfredo Murillo, lives in Chihuahua and is very familiar with Juarez and the situation there. I email him of my plans and ask for his input. I ask him if he could meet me at the El Paso airport and give me a [...]

Walk Across Juarez #1: Anticipation

Walk Across What? Juarez has to be the LAST place any sane person would chose to even go to, let alone walk across. Most people assume that my body will end up filled with bullets, decapitated, and hung from some bridge with a scrawled cartel note tied to it. And that was what I thought [...]

This Solitary Gringo Will Walk Across Juarez

Is it safe for tourists in Mexico now? Well our experience is that it is and while there are concerns, even northern Mexico is much safer than other tourist destinations people use now- such as South Africa and Beliz. Still during this period, Europeans, Australians, Canadians and of course Mexicans are traveling extemsively in the [...]

Mennonites Country in Chihuahua

Mennonites near Copper Canyon There are some 80,000 Mennonites in Mexico, most of them in Chihuahua. The largest concentration is around Cuauhtemoc. This area is right along the CHEPE train to Copper Canyon and also is traversed by a very serviceable road. History The immigration of these folks mainly from Canada began in 1922 whena deal [...]

Copper Canyon Train Trips Just Announced

Our Classic trip is a small group learning based trip on the world renowned Copper Canyon train. This 8 day excursion is a full immersion into the rich culture and geography of the enchanting Sierra Madres featuring the Tarahumaras and Mennonites, the delicious food, an emphasis on local places, the amazing new gondola and ziplines, Mata [...]

Horse Riding in Copper Canyon

There are many fine places to ride horses in the world- the California Sierras, the south shore of Lake Superior, the Flint Hills of Kansas, and so on. Certainly Copper Canyon in Mexico would be one of the ones to include on such a list. The horses in Copper Canyon are generally small in my [...]

Bucket List Destinations

Most people who love to travel and are over 40 have some sort of “Bucket List” . It may be on paper and carefully considered and prioritized. Or it may be informally tucked in the back of the brain and drawn up in an odd moment for a bit of cerebral pleasure. I am finding [...]

Casa de Nopal in Casas Grandes

Spencer and Emi MacCallum live in Casas Grandes and have been instrumental in the promotion of Mata Ortiz pottery as well as providing vision and direction for the preservation and restoration of numerous old building in town. Our Copper Canyon Tours regularly stop here in this tiny and historic village. Near the plaza in Casas [...]