Jason and Lee on the ferry from La Paz to Los Mochis
Leaving the hotel in Los Mochis and splitting with Sue and Bill
Oil change time for Jason north of Los Mochis
Some cervezas and lauchs on the unplanned second night in Los Mochis - I forgot my backpack in the hotel and we had to come back
Eyeing up the saddles
Soon after hitting the dirt we came across these caballeros having a few tailgate cervezas
We were looking for a place to camp but “Tino” just jumped on the back of Jason's bike and took us to his place
Tino and friends
Tino's family
Granma doing the morning cleanup of hibiscus flowers
Granma making frsh tortillas everday the natural way
Granma wouldnt let us leave without doing a blessing for our safety
Jason is religous contemplation
Our campsite for the night, very quiet except for the melody of machine gun fire in the surrounding mountains all night
The gate too a goldmine site - this dude told us that they found 11 bodies that morning close to here - assasinated drug dudes!
Waiting for our escort thru the goldmine site!
Security checked all vehicles
The first of 6 river crossings that day - I wiped out crossing the first one!
Finished the last of the rivers (I hope)
Time to empty our boots full of water
Which way do we go?
oooops - that's gotta hurt - the 5th and final crash of the day for me!
For a whille I stared down at the bike in disbelief!...Couldn't believe that this was really happening, here in the middle of nowhere, and I was still alive to tell the tale!
Fortunately Jason was pretty level headed and got to work right away rigging up a setup that would get the bike back up on the road at least...
Back up and ready to go after some quick thinking by Jason
On the road again!
Very starnge to see these along the way
Some knid of message maybe?
intersting crossing for Matt or Paddy getting down into Batopilas
Batopilas in the bottom of Copper Canyon
Batopilas
Our hostel in Batopilas
Batoplias PLaza
A road out of Batopilas
Bullet holes in the casa of a local drug dude
I decided to truck my bike out to the pavimento - spooked and hurt from all the crashes
Making use of good space!
Paddy, Matt and Jason readying to leave Batopilas
A very private Banos
The spec on the mounatinside was apparently a local indian - not sure what he was after tho
Very steep
The ride out of Copper Canyon
Yet more cats strung up
He'd been there for a while me thinks
Back on the pavement again adding air back in the tires, Jason...and Pady and Matt who we met in Batoplias
At the pavement again - I rejoined Paddy, Matt and Jason - earthquake maybe!
