Copper Canyon Travel
Ciudad Chihuahua to Cuauhtemoc - Page 2
The train is now definitely climbing but still in the rugged
Chihuahua desert, which, as you can see, has a beauty all
of it's own. Pancho Villa illuded the U.S. Army here
for years. It is a forbidding country for all less
than the most hearty and exerienced in the ways of the desert,
and, at times, a hardship even for them.
By this time I had discovered one of the great facets of
train travel. You are not imprisoned in your seat!
No one expects you to stay in your seat. You can move
from car to car or stand in the spaces between the cars
in front of the open windows. Of the 10 daylight hours
in front of me, I would suggest that I spent perhaps 10
minutes in my seat, only then to change the batteries in
the camera or get something out of my travel bag.
Mostly I was holding the fort at one of these open windows
in order to get clear photographs for this article.
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