I found myself making acquaintance again today with the Mexico City airport and availing myself of the opportunity to again consume tacos al pastor. I was through this airport on a trip this previous February. I could not help but notice at this tie the differences between the circumstances of the two trips. The Amateur [...]

I loved this picture that I took of Mexico City’s Monument to the Revolution. Instead of taking a picture of the monument itself I turned the other way and took this picture of the reflection of the monument in nearby office buildings. This symbolized for me how the traditional and the new live side by [...]

Among the things you don’t want to see when you are on vacation is the police showing up in very large numbers and dressing like this, but that is exactly what I saw in the zocalo (main square) of Mexico City on my recent trip. The zocalo was only 2 blocks from the hostel where [...]

I awoke with just two more things that I wanted to see in Mexico City before I headed to Oaxaca: the murals at the National Palace and the National History Museum in Chapultepec park. Unfortunately neither building opened until 9am. After Teotihuacan yesterday I did not want to do a lot of walking and certainly [...]

I ate breakfast again at the hostel and then caught the metro to the central bus station in the north of Mexico City to find a bus for Teotihuacan which is 30 miles north of Mexico City. I had been told that the bus station was a place that one needed to keep a particularly [...]

A little mixup at the hostel. i think I may have claimed someone else’s bed, or at least someone else was in it when I went to bed. But my sheets, towel and blankets were in that bed so I did not sleep as well as I could have. The hostel breakfast was eggs with [...]

Packing for a trip is always a little stressful but it adds an extra level of stress when you go to get something from your garage and find that the garage door has crumpled it on itself after one of the hinges broke. We managed to get the cars out of the garage and then [...]