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Well – I made two entries from the road yesterday, and they seem to have gone into the ether. Greetings from the Creel Ranch Lodge in lovely Creel.

Late morning we board the train for lunch and the start of our journey to El Fuerte which we arrive at around 7pm this evening. The weather is very much like Seattle at the moment. Dripping and cool up here in the mountains.

Yesterday´s recap:

Up at 5:20am for 5:45am luggage call, 6am breakfast, and 6:45am departure — except that there is one group that doesn’t´t seem to get it and we leave 15 minutes late. This is the same group that causes seating havoc all day because they couldn’t all sit next to each other (because they showed up 15 minutes late, because they were still eating while the group orientation meeting was going on the previous night and didn’t bother to send a delegate).

Lunch was your average Mexican mixed plato, good because I was starving, and the margaritas helped as well.

Rest of the day was spend on the bus driving, driving, driving — accompanied by the movie ¨The Treasure of Sierra Madre” with Humphrey Bogart. Twisted movie to match the twisted roads when we finally hit the Sierra Madres. It was raining by the time we got to the lodge — or shall I say the collection of casitas. Cute little bungalows, but of course, that meant a walk in the rain.

Dinner was preselected on the bus — my hope that “chicken in house gravy” would be a mole sauce was misplaced — it was your basic gringo chicken and gravy, should have gone for the mixed plato.

Free margaritas with dinner, and one with, and a small, very loud band that finally pushed me out of the restaurant and back to Swandas for a last cocktail before watching the east coast news at 9 and the beginning of David Letterman at 9:30 and it was off to bed with me.