We had arranged to stay with a Couch Surfer in Durango. But foolishly we ended up in the city of Durango rather than the town of Gomez Palacio in the state of Durango. Gomez Palacio was a further 3 hours away but our host Jose happily retrieved us from the bus terminal at 9 pm. Jose was lovely and we ate some fantastic tacos at a local restaurant before heading to his house. The next day Jose took us with him to work. A lab manager at a dairy company, we got a tour of the labs and were taken out to one of the farms where there were thousands of big healthy cows and a modern milking facility. Not quite the green hills of home but the cows were obviously well taken care of and
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