This one's kind of out of sequence. Right now we're sitting in the front row on the beach at Playa Bonita RV park in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora. We'll get to my opinion of Mexico-Lite a little later but for now I want to put up a few pictures that I took while we were at the GM rally south of Tucson.
This is a shot of the big hole that they take copper out of. The paydirt is something like 300' below the surface so there is a lot of overburden to take off first and then the ore is only 0.6%
copper so they need to move a lot of dirt in order to get a pound of copper. 
The shovel is actually visible in the first photo but it doesn't show up except at extreme magnification. Just for reference though, it is loading a 320 ton truck and it does that with 8 shovel fulls. It drags a massive electrical cable behind it but at this magnification you can't see the cable.This shot is looking down the Titan missile silo. The silo itself is close to 150' deep; the missile is 
103' tall and 10' in diameter. The crew of four lived in hardened quarters down a flight of 55 steps near the bottom of the missile in this picture. The facilities were designed to withstand a nearby missile strike. When the Titan program was dismantled this facility was retained as a museum but from above ground it had to be clear to the Russians that it had in fact been decomissioned. I didn't take pictures of them but there are 3 huge concrete cubes, probably 6 feet on a side positioned so as to block the movable concrete slab that once concealed the silo. Now the cover is rolled halfway back to expose the missile for viewing but the concrete blocks make it obvious from satellite photos that the missile site is no longer operational.
103' tall and 10' in diameter. The crew of four lived in hardened quarters down a flight of 55 steps near the bottom of the missile in this picture. The facilities were designed to withstand a nearby missile strike. When the Titan program was dismantled this facility was retained as a museum but from above ground it had to be clear to the Russians that it had in fact been decomissioned. I didn't take pictures of them but there are 3 huge concrete cubes, probably 6 feet on a side positioned so as to block the movable concrete slab that once concealed the silo. Now the cover is rolled halfway back to expose the missile for viewing but the concrete blocks make it obvious from satellite photos that the missile site is no longer operational.
The GM busses attracted a lot of lookie-lous but this old White conversion was also a traffic stopper. I had a brief visit with the owners who were returning to Kamloops, BC from a winter at Teacapan, Sinaloa. The rally was put together by Larry & Carol Hall. They were the perfect hosts through the weekend to the point of inviting us all 
out to their ranch for dinner on Saturday night. That evening was capped by entertainment from Michael & Christi Hargis.
out to their ranch for dinner on Saturday night. That evening was capped by entertainment from Michael & Christi Hargis.
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