Part 1 The trip down the Canyon

Two vans and 20 people heading out for an Adventure to Batopilas.
Let me start off with I was wrong when I said it was 40 miles to the bottom of the canyon, it was 40 miles on paved road then 40 miles on dirt roads, very winding roads. We started off at 7500 feet and drop down to 1900 feet once we reach the bottom of the canyon, and it was raining cats and dogs, we didn’t get to our destination until 5pm and we had left at 9am, so it was a very long day. We had a hell of a good group on our bus too, we laughed so much, the driver, Martine, and the guide, Cesar, thought we were all crazy. We had fog and rain on the way down so we really couldn’t see the canyons but we still stopped and tried to get some pictures. We stopped for lunch at some friend of Cesar’s about 2pm and they all made us a surprise lunch. They, meaning, Cesar, our 2 drivers, the owner and someone else. The owner’s land was great, he had orange, papaya, tangerine, and mango trees all around, and it was raining so we had to stand under the trees or sit in the vans because of the surprise lunch they were fixing. They set up tables, with table cloths, napkins, real plates and glasses, bottles of wine or soda, it was amazing. Of course they had to set up tarps because it was pouring rain, and as usual it started raining even harder when we sat down under the tarps, which were leaking badly. They cooked everything outside; we had cheese quesadilla, homemade guacamole, which was great, and a mystery meat dish. It was Mexican sausage, chorizo, and I swear it was chopped up hotdog, it tasted like it anyway. I picked at mine; I don’t like mystery stuff, so I mainly ate the cheese quesadillas and guacamole. After lunch they cleaned up everything while everyone made one last outhouse break, then back on the road again. Like I said we got to the hotel at 5pm, just in time for everyone to take their stuff to their rooms and get together for happy hour.
The hotel was very nice just about all the rooms had 2 beds in them, either 2 twins, a twin and a double, 2 doubles, every room was different. They also either had a tub with a shower or tub and shower separate, or just a monster shower that 2 or more could fit in, it was a really nice place. The only thing in Mexico is you can’t flush the toilet paper, well I guess you could, but then you would probably have a back up in your bathroom, if you know what I mean. That was one other thing we were told, anywhere you go carry your on toilet paper with you, not all places supply the stuff. Anyway, when dinner was done about 8pm everyone just went back to their rooms and crashed, no TV’s in any of the rooms, oh yea, Dean and Cheryl had one but it didn’t get any stations. I read for a while then that was it, just listen to the rain and fall asleep I was very tired after that long ride and Dave was already asleep.