Copper canyon Day 1

Up at six-thirty made some tea then woke Rosalie at ten to seven. Showered and finished packing. 

Ruth was to pick us up at 8:10 but I was a little concerned as the roads here are still really bad with running water and mud. She arrived on time and I didn’t have to get Rosalie to push us out of any deep puddles.

Our first stop was Barra to pick up a lady who was coming with us. Her name is Martina originally from France.

We got to the airport in Manzanillo and waited in line for about an hour to check-in. Ruth had done a great job, our boarding passes were all printed ahead of time and she handed them to us in the car. The flight was scheduled to leave at 10:30 am but there was a lot of air traffic over Mexico City so we left at 11:30.
We had booked early and Ruth had us in the good seats at the front of the plane, first class no less. Most of the rest of our party were back with the peasants (where we usually are.) We think this is because we booked early.

Mexico City was the usual gong show. The board showed our flight as area ‘M’. I knew where that was as we came this way before. So, we waited for the gate number to show up. But… they then changed it to ‘room D’.  After finding ‘room D’ it was a while before we found which gate to go to. We finally got it figured out and got on board. 

At Los Mochis, we were met by Pancho our tour guide. He counted us all and took us to the bus for a two-hour drive to the hotel. Los Mochis is the largest producer of tomatoes in the world. It’s very flat here. Please don’t tell the flat earth nut jobs about this.

Los Mochis is in the middle of the snoring desert. No wonder I kept nodding off. Wait…Rosalie said it’s the Sonoran desert but I still nodded off.

We arrived at La Fuerte at ‘Hotel Posada del Hidalgo’ which is very old and also a five-star hotel. We could tell how good it was when we saw the prices on the menu. We met up with Martina and enjoyed a nice meal with her. The bill was a bit pricey by Mexican standards but the ambiance was great and we probably paid what we would have paid in Canada at any local restaurant.

We heard that La Fuerte is the home of El Zorro so we will have to wait to find out if that is true or not.

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