Part 3 Final Recap of The Trip down the Canyon

The next morning coffee was at 7am and breakfast was ready at 7:30, pancakes, fried eggs, and bacon, for 20 people, and the eggs were cooked perfect. I forgot to mention it is a husband and wife that run the hotel, she does all the cooking and he helps serve but his main job is to take and serve the drink orders and keep track of what you owe, they don’t want to be paid until you check out because they never have much change. I did see a lady come in and help with dishes and at night there was a young boy that came in and helped serve dinner, amazing. We got back on the road by 9am the weather was clear so we got to see all of the canyons that we didn’t get to see on the way down and boy it was beautiful. We also saw the roads we had driven on the day before and the drops that were there were very scary. I believe it was Jackie that said she would have had a heart attack it she had seen these roads on the way down; she would have wanted a helicopter to lift her out of the canyon. We stopped again at the ranch we had lunch at on the way down for a potty break (outhouse break) and to purchase some of his fruit, no lunch this time there.
The road was so muddy, with all the rain we had had, that once we hit the construction part, where they are trying to improve the roads, ha ha, we almost got stuck. At one point on a curve a bus was coming down the road so we had to back up to a wide spot to let it by, which means the van behind us had to back up too, we were not happy campers having to back up on such steep grades. Anyway, the bus made it by then 2 more trucks were right behind the bus, which we hadn’t seen, very scary. We finally made it off the dirt road and got on the paved highway and stopped at the Pemex, gas station, and they had no fuel. Cesar said for us to all get out of the vans and have lunch, which the hotel had fixed for us, while he and the 2 vans went to the next town to get gas. Too funny, 20 white folks sitting around gas pumps, that are empty, eating burritos and ham sandwiches. The cars that drove by thought “What the Hell is going on”. We then decided the next car that drove by we were all going to put our hands out and ask for peso’s just like they do.
When Cesar and the vans got back we piled in again and got back to our RV park at 2:30,a hell of a lot better time than going down the canyon, makes a big difference in the rain and a sunny day. Once back we were told we couldn’t tell the second group what went on with our group, after all it is an adventure, and they needed to experience their own. We were all so tired, so it was great to hear that the second group had fixed a potluck dinner for us, which we all really enjoyed. Then it was hit the beds early again. Our adventure was over, the next day was the second groups adventure.