Estimado Don Jose:
Before this post is completely banned for it's religious overtones (which by the way, is against forum rules**), I thought to check in on the progress of your projects. I'm aware that Mexico has endured some heavy inclement weather in the past month or so. As I was recently scheduled to visit the hard rock project in northern Sonora, but they said I would have to swim or man a boat oar to get in, so I changed my plans and went to visit the Central America project instead.
I remember during a past mining project in the Valley of Altar, Mexico during the rainy season, we had to turn south for a 5 hour drive before turning north again to cross the boarder in to Arizona. It was during that trip out in the boondocks, we had just dug ourselves out of a deep muddy arroyo when we met head on a roving 8 man group of Federales in two 4x4 trucks, After the usual “arriba su manos” salutation and inspection, they confidently headed down into the arroyo and immediately sunk to the axles. Thinking it might be a good idea for a future good-neighbor policy to lend a helping hand, we stood on the bank and laughed our asses off at them, before grabbing our shovels and started digging. It took almost two hours to get them out.
Amazingly, for the next 18 months I was on that mining project, every encounter I had with the Federales was very amicable. After the usual “Hola Jhon (that's how the pronounced my name) arriba su manos”, then it was “how are you doing, how's the family doing, would you like to see some photos of my kids, can we stop by your project later to see how things are going, eat, drink, etc, etc? They turned out to be a good bunch of guys, doing a very boring and dangerous job in the middle of nowhere. Now, if I could have gotten along with the local military in the same manner, life would have been good, but that's another story.
Anyway, I hope the creeks didn't rise to much, and your feet and powder are dry. I don't know if I will get back down to your part of the world again this year or not, but I will holler at you if I do, and we can try the coffee or cold cerveza thing, depending how long the day gets.
Take care of yourself and let us hear of your progress,
John
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