On our way back to the U.S. from Copper Canyon, we decided to take a side trip to the lumbering town of Madera, which is the nearest city to Huapoca Canyon, the northernmost of the Canons del Cobre complex. (We were traveling in a van ). We stayed several nights at the Real del Bosque Hotel, rated by Mexican tourism at 4 stars, but we would put it at a l or 2. Okay, but nothing special. It has a restaurant attached--handy in a town with few places to eat, and also a fine little archeological museum. The hotel arranged a guide for us, Saul, who agreed to take us out for a full day to visit the local Paquime (late Anasazi ) ruins. He charged us each only $30, but we did have to drive the van. The road to the ruins is dirt and got progressively worse, but we consoled ourselves that if we did ruin a tire, at least we had a young man along who could change it! (As it turned out, we got by with tires intact.) The road starts out by passing through the Ponderosa pine forests which have... more