CREEL RECAP

Let me start out with Larry and Linda got their coach fixed, and have made it back with us. We are back to 19 coaches and parked lot in Zacatocas, Mexico in a Hotel Parking area.

Back to the recap of our tour of Creel while the other group was down at the bottom of the canyon. We left on Sunday morning for our tour which ended up being kind of a bust. We went to the Tarahumara Indian land to see the school, but it was Sunday and the school was closed. Then we went to see the San Ignacio Mission, it was closed, but Denise, our guide, found someone to open it up so we got to take a quick look. We saw the "Valley of the Mushrooms" which was rocks that looked like mushrooms, we then went to a Mission Store, and everything you buy from it goes to the hospital, next door. We were supposed to have a tour of the hospital but they are having a TB or something out break so they cancelled the tour. This is Adventure Caravan, we could use some adventure, what the hell are they thinking, just kidding, since we didn't get the tour of the hospital we went to their museum. That was a quick tour because it was closing; everything on Sunday closes at 1pm. After the quick tour we had lunch then back to the RV Park, stupid of them to plan a tour for a Sunday, because everything here in Mexico closes early.
Monday, it started raining during the night, and it rained all day too. It was another touring day, which was a bigger bust. We were supposed to do a Guided Bus Tour of Divisadero, Canyon Rim Walking Tour and seeing the Balancing Rock, everyone was too cold to do anything. The bus leaked like crazy, the guide, Denise, offered to get us 3 vans to split up in but we are one crazy group and we wanted to all stay together. We road in the bus with plastic bags covering things to try and keep the rain out, plus umbrellas. We got to the 1st stop and got out and looked around in the rain and fog, froze our asses off and ran back to the wet bus. After that we just kept asking her to find a hotel with a bar and fire place that we could sit at. Monday was a really lost day.
Tuesday, our free day, the sun was out and it was beautiful, so Dave and I decided we were going to do the drive to all the sites we missed the day before on our tour. I kept asking people if they wanted to go but everyone kept turning me down, they had laundry to do and wanted to get it done. Well, Dave was smart, the hotel we stopped at for lunch the day before, which was close to the campground, does laundry, so Dave had run over and dropped our laundry off on Monday afternoon.
As we were leaving Linda, Larry, Bob and Jackie decided to join us, actually following in Linda's car and we went on our own adventure. As we were climbing the roads we saw a tour bus ahead of us so we followed it. Dave and I figured that all the tour buses stop at the same place, which they do and it was great. We made all the stops we were suppose to, the day before with Denise, and boy were they great. Mexico is really beautiful, or at least some parts of it. The pictures we got were great, we are so glad we went out on our own, and saw the things we missed the day before. We even stopped at a street vendor, who was cooking Gorditas, in the lid of a 55 gallon drum and it was great. The day turned out great and we didn't get back till almost 3pm, we wanted to get back by 1pm, oh well.
The second group was coming back from the bottom of the Copper Canyon and we had to cook them dinner, that's why we wanted to get back early. Remember we left the bottom of the canyon at 8:30am and got back at 2:30pm. The next thing we know it’s almost 4pm and no second group, I'm a little pissed off because I know they are having an adventure we didn't get to have. They finally showed up at 5pm, dinner was for 5:30pm so we got everything ready for them and then found out what the Hell took them so long.
They had a lot of rain too, and when they got to the construction site that we had had problems with, they had a truck stuck and there was no way to go around it. They ended up with one of their fellow passengers, Hank, getting out of the van and driving one of the earth movers there and clearing the roads for them. They were stuck there for 2 1/2 hours and that's why they were so late.
That's the recap of Creel, when we were getting ready to leave the next day there were some boys hanging around, and now we know why.
On one of the stops we made to rest, with our pod, Dave walked around the coach and tow vehicle and found out back bike tires hanging. So it seems the boys, that I had chased away from Gene and Carl's car, with the bikes on the back like ours, came after our bikes. They had the tires off but because everything is tied down, they couldn't figure out how to untie the strap Dave had done. Now we have cables wrapped around the tires so there is no way anyone can steal our tires.