Shall we with the train stories? Why not, I say. Mexico used to have a wonderful train system. They were a safe, inexpensive means of traveling about the country and I enjoyed travelling by train immensely. One of the trips I took was in 1975 from Mérida, Yucatan to Palenque, Chiapas. It was a trip of perhaps 9 hours. I repeated this same trip in 1999. I think it was the same train and I know they hadn't put one centavo into since the last time I rode it. The interior lights were non-functional and it was not exactly safe to be riding this train after dark. As a matter of fact, a drunk man started to give me some trouble, but I merely enlisted the aid of a nice young German guyYes, of Troy, he was young, verrry attractive, and with thighs to die forshort shorts! across the aisle. And yet.... it was one of the most remarkable train rides I had ever experienced. I left Mérida at 6am and arrived in Palenque at 1am. If the train had been on time and the interior lights functional, I never would have seen the spectacular sight of thousands of very large fireflies looking for all the world like the night sky had come to rest in front of me.