Traveling Around Chihuahua State. Mexico. 07/08.

Taking delivery of my new company car. A VW Bora.

Large statue on the Eastern side of Chihuahua city, called

the Gateway to Chihuahua.

Some kids selling watermelons on the side of the road.

A delivery of Kenworths.

Heading East from Chihuahua. Great roads for driving in the
early morning with no one about.

Chihuahua Desert.

Ojinaga Desert.

Ojinaga Desert.

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Canyon in the Ojinaga Desert.

Calf roping at a small town South of Chihuahua.

American paint horse competition at the County Fair, Chihuahua.

A military check point. These were everywhere around

Mexico. Trying to catch drug runners.

The notorious fence between Mexico and the USA.

I met this Hobo sitting on the side of the road in El Paso.

He was thrilled to receive a few bucks from me.

Heading West from Juarez towards Nuevo Casas Grandes.

Driving through the Northern Chihuahua desert I came up

behind these guys who must have left home in a hurry that morning.

Paquime Indian ruins at Nuevo Casas Grandes. The Paquime

Indians were around during the period of 1060-1340.

Driving through a snow storm on my way to visit friends

at Matachi.

My friends Bob & Sandy Rulewicz from Connecticut. Outside

their missionary training school at Matachi.

Palmarejo Project. Mexico. July 07.

Flying to Temoris, then a 1 hour drive to site.
After the Mali project I flew to Chihuahua Mexico to work on
a Mine Site in Palmarejo, which is in the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Flying over Chihuahua, heading for Temoris in the Sierra Madre.

Large cactus.

Looking up the road at Palmarejo. The little red store and

school next door.

Looking down on the Tiny town of Palmarejo. The church

right in the middle.

View while driving from Temoris to Palmarejo.

The Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre, on the way from

Chihuahua to Palmarejo.

Some interesting rock formations on the road to Temoris.

The site being prepared for the new processing plant.

Forming the concrete plinths to support the Ball Mills.

Leach tanks being fabricated on site.

A linesman working on a new pole that was put in at the

man camp.Don't try this at home.

Doing my QA/QC work at Palmarejo.

Black Widow. I saw lots of these under the steel.

These kids were playing on the side of the road where I

stayed in Palmarejo.

This little old Mexican guy lived in Palmarejo and hung

around the construction site.

Back in Chihuahua, structural steel beams ready for sand blasting.

Ball Mill shells waiting for dispatch.

Tanks & beams ready for dispatch to Palmarejo.

Dye penetrant crack testing on a stainless steel elution column.

Bins heading to the rubber liners before being sent to the

Palmarejo Site

More Structural Steel in Chihauhua, for Palmarejo.

Fabricators & Welders at the Chihauhau workshop, Mexico.

Traveling Between Jobs.

While coming back through California I caught up with
Barack and we discussed some financial and other
important political issues.

Istanbul, Turkey.

Shopping in Dubai. These were all made of scrap pieces of

steel, and stood about 1.8m tall.They were really well made

and priced in the thousands. I'm a Predator fan from way back.

Dubai. I didn't get to stay in this famous hotel.

Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg, S.A.

On our way back from Mali.

Wendy & I on the Shotover River Jet boat. Queenstown,

good ole NZ.

The Remarkables, above Queenstown.

Singapore. Nice blokes, but they didn't have much to stay.

Singapore. The ice cream was so good compared to what

we got in Mali.

Singapore.Two cute birds.

Singapore. Crickey look at these little beauties

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co,Santa Monica Pier, LA. Lunch was Awesome.