Lita (Wednesday)

Day 6

Out of bed by 6am with 6:45am breakfast. Started work at 7:30am and finished digging up the remaining 3 holes and building forms for the footers. Hand carried the concrete roofing tiles from the parking lot to the job site. Poured concrete for the remaining footers. Wrapped up by lunchtime.

 

Needed to wait for the concrete to dry overnight before proceeding, so we planned an afternoon excursion to the Rio Verde River. After lunch, we loaded up in the back of two pickup trucks and headed up the muddy mountain roads to the river.

 

Once we arrived, several of us tried our hand at crossing the suspension bridge, others enjoyed the scenery, and Mark tried his hand at fishing.

We then headed back to town and visited the old Lita train station. The train doesn’t run through this area anymore.

 

Met a young entrepreneur who built a bicycle that rides on the train track (a traincycle?) and has seating for 2 peddlers and 2 passengers. He plans on renting the vehicle to tourist for sightseeing in the near future.

 

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VIDEO: Rio Verde River