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MEXICO | Wednesday, 12 December 2007 | Views [570] | Comments [1]

Okay folks, here, finally is the first of many (hopefully) stories/updates on me and Gabriella's travel. Partially because of time, partially because of poor internet service, and partially because of exhaustion, I have not written in the journal till now. Also, we havent figured out how to upload pictures yet (although we already have many great ones) and i have wanted to put pictures with my stories.

Anyhow, we arrived in Mexico city on Wednesday the 5th and found ourselves walking several blocks to our hotel from where our taxi driver dropped us because the streets were either being reconstructed or closed due to crowds. It was the first test of our trust in terms of walking through a big city with all of our stuff. The crowd was mostly families and friendly looking people out in the historic district, specifically in the main square where there was ice skating and noisy revelry commemorating "el invierno en la ciudad" (winter in the city). We crashed that night after some dinner and allowed the craziness of getting here to settle.

The next day we took our time getting in the flow of preparing our stuff for a day out on the town (i.e. making sure valuables are protected, purifying water with our magic UV wand, etc.) and wandered the streets of the neighborhood. Let me just say this, Mexico city is crazy. There are so many people on every street that one is often forced to walking on the on the street itself just to keep moving. I was constantly finding myself switching between wanted to leave as soon as possible and wanted to stay for awhile in order to see as much as possible. There are so many plazas and museums and interesting foods and neighborhoods and the list goes on. Yet i also woke in the morning with lots of stuff ready to be coughed up from breathing the pollution and was very ready to get to some cleaner air. We spent a perfect couple of days in the city with a great side trip to Teotihuacan (the holy city originally built by pre-Aztecs with giant pyramids; one with the same base area as the great pyramid of Egypt) one day. The guide showed us ruins of the Aztec civilization and pyramids and temples that have been re-vitalized right in the center of Mexico city before driving out to Teo. En route we stopped at the Guadalupe cathedral where the original imprinted image of Mother Mary (en Mexico, Guadelupe) is worshipped daily by thousands of Mexicanos.

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You need to update my friend...it's been a while.

  Hildebrand Mar 2, 2008 7:12 PM

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