The final hours of my last day in Mexico City was spent on a bike, cruising around the Teotihuacan archeological site.I come to the realization of the importance in supporting local tour operators. A young husband and wife had invested in some mountain bikes to start a small tour group that takes tourists around Teotihuacan…
Tag: Mexico City
Floating over Teotihuacan
I could barely feel the basket leaving the ground. Looking over the edge I see that we are rising into the atmosphere among the clouds above the ancient city of Teotihuacan. It’s a perfect morning with no wind, light clouds that are dotting the mountain tops, and a sunrise that is splashing the earth with…
watching balloons rise for Teotihuacan
Today is my last full day in Mexico City. It’s been a whirlwind of adventures, pinnacling to this moment. I climb into the van while it’s still dark outside, and off we go to Teotihuacan. I arrive just as the sun is slowly starting to rise. I’m offered a cup of coffee, and as I…
Ballet Folklorico
I heard on more than one occasion that if you were going to do one thing while in Mexico City, it would be to see Ballet Folklorico. I made it a priority my second time around in CDMX. I get all fancied up before my driver comes to the hotel to pick me up, then…
Extinction
Poachers in Africa covered in blood as they celebrate with the tusks of a dead elephant. A man and a rhinoceros come close to sharing a kiss under a rainbow umbrella. A sharks dead, black eyes seem to pierce the soul of the onlooker as the hook in the corner of its mouth starts to…
Street Art Collages
In the year 1997 I made my first and only collages from the art of Salvador Dali. The internet was just starting to be something interesting, and in surfing the web I found and printed out my favorite artwork of his, hodge podged them in a haphazard fashion onto a foam board, and hung them…
a free concert at Chapultepec by the Mexican military
I come down the staircase to the sound of a crowd gathering as flutes start to play.I’ve stumbled across a free concert at Chapultepec castle, put on by the proudly serving military personnel of Mexico. I’ve no idea how I seem to fall ass backwards into stuff like this, the luck of the Irish I…
Chapultepec Castle
Last year I tried to visit Chapultepec Castle on my last day in Mexico City, only to find out that it was closed on that day. A bit of prior planning for my return trip this year made all of the difference, and on my second day in CDMX, I find myself walking up the…
Lucha Libre
Late nights as a teenager I would watch the WWF on my tiny black and white television. I loved all the wrestling characters, and I even took my younger brother to a match in downtown Salt Lake City as soon as I could drive. Great memories. When I was in Mexico City last year, people…
back to CDMX
It started with a simple conversation while in Cancun. A local was telling me how great Mexico City is, and that the best time to go there, in his opinion, was during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, or as most westerners know it, Easter. So I took his advice and went during this time in…
my final thoughts on Cuidad de Mexico
I’m wrapping up my trip to Mexico City last Spring with some final thoughts. As one of the ten largest cities in the entire world, Cuidad de Mexico truly is in a “world of it’s own“. There was so much to see and do, that I knew as soon as I left that I would…
Zocalo
(in Mexico) a public square or plaza.The golden hour of morning light is still a few minutes away. I make my way to the ATM across the street from the hotel, then ask an older gent smoking a cigarette as he is leaning against his pink CDMX taxi if he can take me to the…