Los Mochis July 12
I’m currently in Los Mochis, after having taken the train yesterday from Creel. What was supposed to be 9 or 12 hours turned into closer to 20 hours. Sometime around 9pm, we stopped, and men with large rock bars (6 foot long prybars made of thick rebar), walked down alongside the train. It had been raining heavily from the looks of the runoff off the sides of the canyon, and I suspect there was a landslide.
It took several hours at least to clear the landslide, and get underway again, only to stop again some hours later for a while, on what looked like a bridge.
Sometime in the middle of a night, a frightening looking barrel chested Mexican sat down next to me, scaring the crap out of me. But, given my experiences so far, I’m sure he was a charming individual.
Woman cooking at one of the train stops
Los Mochis was different than I expected - A bustling town with plenty of street stalls and activity. I spent the afternoon wandering around. I would have explored the street stalls more heavily, but my stomach has been bugging me the past several days, and I didn’t think I could handle the various smells. Even just walking by a butcher shop was enough to turn me pale.
I spent the rest of the afternoon in an internet cafe, working on some various client issues. What a luxury, having one’s own computer, instead of having to use crappy internet cafe computers. I still haven’t mastered the mexican keyboard layout, and can’t for the life of me figure out how to make an @ sign, without resorting to typing alt-64 on the number pad.