Blogs from Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, North America - page 65

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So, I'm sitting on the Metro on a beaurocratic mission, and two solicitors walk by. One is broadcasting the feat he is about to perform, the other is holding a sack full of something jingly, and tapping it with his other had. He lays the sack on the floor of the train, revealing it to be an old rag holding an unhealthy amount of broken glass. His co-worker does a headstand right in front of it, and then drops his feet, leaving his bare back hovering about half a foot above the heap of shards. Without hesitation, he kicks out his feet, and drops directly onto the pile. He got up, and walked down the train to collect a couple pesos from a couple sympathetic riders. Pieces of glass were falling from their resting places in ... read more


I started this entry by reading my last one about Mexico City: The size is not so surprising anymore, I have all the common sense I need to avoid crime, and Marco's couch is once again a most welcome sight. No one ever responded as to whether or not Mexico is a "first world" country. I think, that like everywhere on earth, there exists wealth and poverty, third worlds within the firsts, firsts within the thirds, comprende? bueno. I'm not gonna volunteer for any Quakers. Gotsa get ta Canada! Yeah! Finally decided between the short way and the long way, which is to say, the plane or the bus...so check this out: Tourist card exstension $200 (pesos) Bus to Chihuahua (18hrs) $900 One night there $100 Train to Creel $25 Three nights there $270 Train to ... read more


Meet up with Gill at Mexico City airport - she had survived the night!! When we got off the plane in Tuxtla Guiterrez, it was like someone had left the oven on!!! We had a nights stay in a nice hotel with a pool (heavenly) before realising that the few words in Spanish that we know are not going to get us very far... Moved on the next morning to San Cristobal, a colonial town in Chiapas highlands, thankfully it was a bit cooler, so we could wander around quite comfortably. A bit different from the next day - when we arrived in Palenque, it was like stepping off the bus into a steam room... I don"t think that I have ever been that hot in my whole life!! Our accommodation was slightly downmarket from New ... read more
Home from home
Palenque
Dunfy girl at a big tree

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City April 28th 2005

It turns out that Mexico City pulled through in the last innings with so many redeeming qualities that my final impressions in the last country on this four month journey brought tears of joy, not frustration. Not that the men were any less aggressive here (actually, I apparently just missed a free Santana concert in the main square the prior night, where a guy from my hostel was shoved away from the two Aussie girls he was accompanying while the men circled around the girls and started trying to take their clothes off them), it was just generally easier to dodge them being in a busy city. I was actually a little nervous about the city upon first arrival, after having heard from so many Mexicans about how dangerous, crime-ridden, violent, etcetera the city could be, ... read more
courtyard of palacio nacional
inside sanborns
Casa Azulejos

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City April 20th 2005

20.04.2005 - Saved from prison in Cuba Mexico City, DF, Mexico I thought I have experienced a lot in the last 20 years and something since I am proud to say to be the citizen of this planet. I have experienced exploding in anger, dead fear, inconsolable sadness and the greatest joy of the moment. I was full of money and I was broke. I have had great triumphs and shameful failures. I've met people who I disdained and people who I admired. Nevertheless I was the person who I at the moments disdained and at other moments deeply admired. I lied about the simplest things and I have told the truth in face of great risk. I hated and I loved passionately. There were moments when I was sure that I know what life is, ... read more
Common transport in Cuba
Peacehiker with indians
My chocolate-colored friend

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City April 15th 2005

let me preface today by saying that I am a great backpacker... can do without hot water for at least 2 hours/ can cope with dirty sheets (take my own clean ones!) and can carry my back pack for at least 200 metres! however...Mexico city was the scene for our romantic fourth anniversary (awwww!) so we showed up and Dave whisked me on off in a very expensive (safe) taxi to the Sheraton in the middle of town... i walked into the hotel room and cried! it was sooo beautiful... flowers on the table from Dave.. a heart made from towels on the bed (a little strange but hey!) and best of all clean sheets and a huge bed! You would think that this would be the most romantic anniversary ever... however I woke in the ... read more
Temple of the Moon
Temple of the Sun
City of the Toltecs

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City March 23rd 2005

Dinner in Mexico City In Mexico, you have to invite twice as many people as you want to have at your party, I was told. So, on the day of the dinner I asked just about everybody I saw --the neighbors upstairs who gave me a lift to work, a colleague who I owed a meal, the Starbucks barista, the computer fixer people who restored e-mail after the daily server crash…. In the end the original number of people showed, minus two cancellations. The friend was right - you DO have to ask more people than you hope will come. Net result, lots of leftover food and drink! ... read more

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City March 1st 2005

¿Where to begin? Mexico City, or el DF has about the same population as all of Canada. I had no particular idea of what to expect. There were a couple scenes of el DF in the film Y Tu Mama Tambien, which are true to form. Wide roads, mad traffic, lots and lots of people. We came here despite countless warnings about how dangerous it was, and we haven.t had any problems with theft or violence. I only mention this to assure my Mom that I.m safe, and in case other travellers are wondering if they should come here... Matt and I arrived last sunday morning after an all-night bus. It was deluxe, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and seats that go way back. I called my friend Marco when we got to the Terminal Norte ... read more
Quesidillaria

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City February 27th 2005

Hey ya’ll, My roommate Ryan and I just got back from Mexico City as a weekend getaway trip out of boring Atlanta. I value this trip as an eye opening for Mexico; before, I had always looked down on Mexicans (and Mexico), simply because the stereotypical Mexico we’ve learned from the States, such as illegal immigrants and border towns (I have visited Nuevo Laredo prior to Mexico City). Mexico City has proven itself to be a place where culture, different social economic classes and heritage blend together to define a sense of proudness of whom they are and what they are. We stayed at a hostel by the National Cathedral, close to Plaza de la Constitution, the third largest main square in the world after Tiananmen Square in Beijing and Red Square in Moscow. Remember the ... read more
Corona truck
A Mexican flag van
Hostel's view

North America » Mexico » Distrito Federal » Mexico City February 21st 2005

Three or four hours sleep. Didn´t really sleep on the plane, but it turns out our tickets were executive class. Woohoo! Although Executive on Mexicana is not quite what it is on other lines. Anyways, we landed in Mexico City with a couple hours to wander around before our flight to Acapulco. Headed out to wander the neighbourhood near the airport. Miscalculated the time change and realised our mistake just in time to hurry back to the airport. We stopped at a Taco cart just outside the airport (our first meal in Mexico and diving right in). As I watched the vendor´s knarled hands chop up the meat on the stained and cracked wood chopping board, then scoop it up in blood stained fingers into our waiting tortillas, a dark feeling of foreboding overcame me.... read more




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