Pancho Villa Moto Tours’ March 26th 2004 Copper River Canyon Expedition

Ryan Seghers

April 2004

This is a quick write-up of an expedition ride I just went on in Mexico . My experience is that if I try to do a good job on these then I don’t finish, so here goes the quick version.

My Dad (Ed) and I signed up for the Pancho Villa Moto Tours Copper River Canyon Expedition ride as a father-son trip. It’s an 8 day on and off-road motorcycle ride starting in El Paso Texas and visiting the Copper River Canyon in Mexico . There were 3 other clients on the trip: Bob, Jay, and Rene, who all turned out to be great guys and made the trip a lot of fun. Most of the riding was on road, and a few hundred miles were off-road. It was a great adventure and a great way to see Mexico .

Here’s the group picture taken at the end of the trip in the storage lot where we returned the bikes.

At the end of the trip: Jay, Alfonso, Ryan, Bob, Rene, and Ed

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Itinerary

This table contains the dates and activities for that day. There are separate web pages for each day. For most days you can get to the per-day web pages by clicking on the dates in the table.

Date	Agenda
3/26/2004	Arrived in El Paso .
3/27/2004	Got the bikes and did some riding to get familiar with them. First meeting.
3/28/2004	El Paso to Casas Grandes
3/29/2004	Casas Grandes to Madera
3/30/2004	Madera to Creel
3/31/2004	Creel to Batopilas
4/1/2004	Stay a day in Batopilas
4/2/2004	Batopilas to Chihuahua City
4/3/2004	Chihuahua City to El Paso . Turned in bikes, had a barbecue at Alfonso’s house.
4/4/2004	Fly home. We forgot about daylight savings time changeover and I only made my flight by 3 minutes according to the guy at the ticket counter.

What a great bunch of guys and what a great time. Can’t wait to go again next year! There was a lot of talk about a Baja ride, and that’s sounding better and better the more I think about it.