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freight hopping, Guadalajara, haiku, kids, life, Los Mochis, Mazatlan, Mexico, on the road, photography, poetry, railroads, riding the rails, runaways, trains, travel
blue sky-
nothing constructive
to offer
hopping
a freight with me
two runaways
from Los Mochis
1978
tom clausen 
No wonder the young men hopped a freight.
(http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/northwest-mexico/los-mochis)
Never did that…always wanted to…73 and still have a pipe dream or two. 🙂
Ron, it was one of my childhood dreams too and in 1978 on bicycle trip to visit friends in the Peace Corps in Guatemala and Honduras I did a side trip by train to see parts of Mexico I had not seen…and after visits to San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Aguas Caliente, Zacatecas, Chihuahua and then a train through the Barrance de Cobre I decided to fulfill my dream to freight hop… first ride on a flatcar with a tractor chained down on it was from Los Mochis to Mazatlan, then I took one from there to Guadalajara ( which was where these kids jumped on and joined me in a gondola car ) to Mexico City. Thanks for your comment. I bought a copy of your haiku guide book but was unable to access it on my computer… if there is a print copy available I’d order it… the various download commands, files, conversions, prompts, decisions, snafus, dynamics end up leaving me dazed and confused. Sorry to not have been able to see it but I did try!