3 weeks of mexico

[driller]

Left Salt Lake City on the 5th April, arrived home 25 April. 3600 miles traveled roughly 1100 miles off road. Entered Mexico through Douglas Arizona spent first night in Mata Ortiz. More to come.

 

[RicoV]

Can't wait...

 

[driller]

Pictures of Hacienda de San Diego. Awesome old mansion built in the late 1800's to early 1900's. The family living in the home has been in living in the home for over a hundred years. They have been slowly restoring it. After 70 years the Mexican government has finally granted them title to the home and immediate property. It at one time was a beautiful estate.
http://www.mexicofile.com/haciendadesandiegochihuahua.htm

 

[68 Siesta]

Sounds unbelievable! Can't wait to see more.


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[driller]

day 2

 

[driller]

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[driller]

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[driller]

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[craig333]

So there are places to camp other than along the beach

 

[driller]

So there are places to camp other than along the beach

Yes, There are plenty of places beside beach, most of out campsites were along river shores and in the trees.

 

[driller]

MEXICO - DAY 2 - LA CUEVA DE LA OLLA (Valley of the Caves). Grainery and Pueblo style ruins. You may hike up and through these caves and far back into more dwellings. Very interesting place. One of the particularities of the Valle de las Cuevas (valley of the caves) is the presence of a site where a sequence of very long human occupation has been detected. Human groups that lived in the region used a maize ancestor variety, dating approximately 5500 BC. This civilization was before the Paquime.

 

[driller]

MEXICO - DAY 3 - Madera, Mexico and Tobogan Hot Springs

 

[driller]

DAY 4 - Cueva Grande (Cliff Dweller Caves). Nestled in a corner of the mountain, covered by a waterfall, the rock shelter contains at least nine rooms distributed around a small plaza that contained two grain vessels to store corn. It is certainly one of the oldest human occupatied areas of the region. I feel facinated to have been able to be in this ancient dwelling. The original wood from thousands of years is still intact and in good shape because of the shelter of the cave.

 

[driller]

MEXICO - DAY 5 AND 6 - Basaseache Falls. Two days camping at the river, amazing care of the grape crops in the area, local food we purchased, 2 days hiking at the falls. Basaseachic Falls on the Basaseachic River is the second-highest waterfall in Mexico, located in the Parque Nacional Basaseachic (Basaseachic Falls National Park) at Cañon Basaseachic in the Copper Canyon region of northwest Mexico, near Creel, Chihuahua. It is 246 meters (807 ft) tall, second in Mexico only to the Cascada de Piedra Volada (Flying Stone Falls).
Basaseachic Falls is located in the high mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the Municipality of Ocampo.

 

[driller]

more pics

 

[agate]

Awesome thanks for sharing watching every day you post..........still snow in the woods on the North side of the house here!!!

 

[driller]

MEXICO - DAY 7 - Creel, Mexico
Major city in the area. The Tarahumara Native Americans are very present in this area. Their baskets, dolls and drums are very nice crafts. Most still live in caves or small adobe houses. The roads along most of this trip are quite dangerous. There are many shrines to those who have passed and as prayer houses for the truckers who made it down the road. The cabins and lodge are where we camped and used to be a KOA in Mexico.
The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a Native American people of northwestern Mexico who are renowned for their long-distance running ability. Originally inhabitants of much of the state of Chihuahua, the Rarámuri retreated to the high sierras and canyons such as the Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre Occidental on the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century. The area of the Sierra Madre Occidental which they now inhabit is often called the Sierra Tarahumara because of their presence. The Tarahumara are believed to be descended from the Mogollon culture. The Mogollon culture is one of the four major prehistoric Southwestern cultural divisions of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. The culture flourished from the archaic period, ca. 200 AD, to either 1450 or 1540 AD, when the Spanish arrived.

 

[driller]

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[driller]

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[2tallDA]

Hi everyone! I just joined and learn something every read.
I hope to add my humble experiences to the site.
Next fall we're planning a 3 weeker to the Tip. Going to be traversing right and left Baja coasts.
Probably going with some Toyo 35-12.50-17 RT's before the voyage.
Nice rig. I wish I had the coin for a bumper. Gotta love the Northstar equipped Dodges.