Well it was time to head for Durango and the "Devils Backbone". Once known as the "mountain range of marijuana, opium poppies, and being an accident prone road... I am here to tell you "we beat the road"... Of ALL the roads we have traveled "THIS ONE" is the road to take !!! It was an amazing "ribbon of concrete" that runs like a roller-coaster at times but was well taming, and that we did. Known as one of Mexico's greatest engineering achievements, 115 bridges and 61 tunnels over and through one of the toughest mountain ranges you could ask for... there were slot canyons below us as far as 900 feet or more as we crossed one or more of the bridges, and green, it was "GREEN" !!! One of the bridges, known as "BALUARTE" was well over 1,200 feet above the river below... Mazatlan Durango, we own you now and I'm telling ALL, you have to drive this route at least once, AND stop along the way and enjoy a wood fired Gorditos and for my first time, ATOLE...one amazing drink. I was going to mention, one of the tunnels along the route, the Sinaloense Tunnel, 1.87 miles long.. When you enter it you are immediately heading on a downhill right turn configuration at a 5 percent grade and the int changes...
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We had a wonderful dinner tonight with our good friends from Woodinville, Ann and Will... Unfortunately our camera didn't fire off correctly so we missed a grest picture of them as we were leaving...sorry about that...
Mazatlan...and our camp ground at Cerritos. Great site, pool, beach on both sides, lots of little restaurants, and one great coffee shop. Our last dinner with Sol and Carol and then they head south to La Penita.
A NEW stop for us as we headed for Mazatlan... ALTATA... It is a wonderful resort destination for the Mexican families in and around Culiacan. Not ONE word of English is understood or spoken which I find wonderful and encouraging. All the streets and the HUGE malecom are paved with inlaid multi-colored bricks. We obviously were there "off-season"as we had the whole place to ourselves... Tomorrow Mazatlan and "Fat Fish".
After all the cold we had in Montana we were happy to at least find the sun. After pulling out of Hurricane, Utah I noticed that our new alternator wasn't working... Fortunately we found a shop that could get right on it. From Hurricane we took a secondary state road that took us to Jacobs Lake. Reaching the "lake" (not much more than a watering hole for cattle) we stopped for lunch at this little tourist trap at the top of this ridge (7856 ft.) This route also took us to the American Indian "Rock Dwellings", Vermillion Cliffs, and Lee's Ferry Landing. From there we headed for Flagstaff and then to finish our day parked just outside of Camp Verde.
While Lou is out on the gambling floor and trying to win our first million or just pay for our dinner, I thought I would have dessert...anyone want to join me???
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