Try to find a farm?

So after two days of travelling we arrived in Gomez Palacio, a small town west of the also-small town Torreon, to try and meet up with our WWOOF farm contact. We tried calling the night before from Chihuahua but the phone number they gave us was connected to a fax machine. We sent them an email hoping they would meet us at the Gomez Palacio bus station. Unforunately, no one was there (shock!). We frantically emailed them and tried to call again with the help of a local but it was no use. After sitting on the sidewalk crying for 2 hours in the flooding rain we grabbed a taxi and found a nice hotel.

The next morning we tried calling again and (shock!) the phone was working!! A nice man named Arturo gave us the address of their office in Torreon. We have no map of Torreon but luckily the hotel manager helped us figure out which bus to take. The sewer system in Torreon is a little um... non-existant so the there are flood pools around each corner and some of the streets are flooded. We got to the office which was really beautiful and peaceful and Arturo sadly informed us that the farm had been swept away by the nearby river. Unfortunately for our friends at Jardin de Paz, the Mexican Government decided to open a dam for the first time in 17 years and gave them two days to evacuate. Apparently everything is gone. So we now are farm-less. This is kind of a bummer for us but much more so for Jardin de Paz who had spent 2 years working on this project. You can check out their website here.

So we got a hotel and are going to hang out here because tomorrow is Independence Day. After that we have no idea where we will be. We emailed some more local WWOOF farms and are trying to stay in the area because we fly to Chicago from Torreon on Oct. 29. We ran out of a plan much faster than we thought we would but this is the fun of travelling. Don´t worry friends, our spirits are high and we love you!