Guanajuato, Torreón, Casas Grandes, Mexico

Our last sunset in Mexico-Casas Grandes


One night in Torreon-This is the main plaza, underneath all the trees were lots of music and dancing.


Scenery along the drive through northern Mexico

A church in Zacatecas where we stopped for lunch on the way to Torreon

Snacks in Zacatecas-cactus fruit

At the top of the city-Guanajuato

The streets of Guanajuato

Exit of one of the tunnels.

Guanajuato-A view from the top of the city

The tunnels

Aug 15 – Aug 17

We are on our way to Chandler, AZ to visit one of Aaron’s brother’s, August and meet his mom, Joan there. With 4 days and still about 2000 miles to go, here are pictures of the last few cities we stayed at and visited on our trip through this area.

Guanajuato has been one of our favorite cities in Mexico. It is an old mining town. A lot of the main roads are tunnels that curve through the city. Originally the tunnels were old river beds. The city continued to flood so they diverted the river and turned the old river beds into a tunnel winding through the downtown. At one time this city was also one of the 3 mining towns in Mexico that produced a third of the world’s silver. Zacatecas was also one of those 3 mining towns as well, we stopped here for lunch and a walk around town.

Torreón was basically as far as we could get from Guanajuato in a day. This was one of the famous stomping grounds of Pancho Villo, villain turned hero.

We spent our last night in Mexico in the very small village of Casas Grandes. The main attractions here are the ruins of Paquimé and the world-famous pottery center of Mata Ortiz. We visited a near-by village of Colonia Juarez, a Mormon village established at the end of the 19th century, surrounded by peach and apple orchards. We also stopped in the city of Chihuahua for lunch this day…disappointed to only see one actual Chihuahua (though we have seen many others along the way).