It is time for the "Richard and Marianne on the Road" blog name to be retired, and to create a new blog without Marianne's name on it.
The new Blog is "Richard's adventures", with a URL of http://ricardoaventurero.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Mexico City and home
Friday was a rest day, with all of us recovering from Montezuma's Revenge. We did walk down to "La Fabrica", an old textile factory converted into a high end retail space, especially art and home decoration. Very nice. We ate at the restaurant at the factory.
Saturday was a travel day, and had us taking the ETN bus back to Mexico City. We took at taxi back to the same hotel, the Hotel Catedral.
Richard decided to visit the Soumaya museum, the new museum created by the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim. Unfortunately, Richard went to the wrong campus of the museum. He went to the Plaza Loreto campus, not the Plaza Corzo campus, which is the architecturally impressive building. The Plaza Loreto was interesting, but not that interesting. These museums are not convenient to reach by public transportation, involving two subway rides and a bus ride. Richard had to jam himself into the packed subway car, and it took him three tries to do so.
Richard's big adventure started when he returned to the subway. After he bought his ticket, he noticed two kind of rough looking men watching him. It just felt wrong, so Richard stayed put. The two men passed through the subway turnstiles, stopped, turned around, and kept looking at him. Obviously almost everyone who goes through the turnstiles keeps walking. This more or less proved that they had bad intentions, so Richard left the subway station and walked seven blocks to the next subway station. He made it to the hotel without further incident, but a little shook up. This is probably the closest that Richard has come to getting mugged in his life. He is not sure whether to credit his alertness, his special caution in Mexico City, or his guardian angel, but felt very fortunate.
Sunday we took a taxi to the airport. The ladies were dropped off first, then Richard was dropped off last. Richard took some time to do additional research for his airport article. The flights home were uneventful.
A good trip, nice to be back in Mexico.
Saturday was a travel day, and had us taking the ETN bus back to Mexico City. We took at taxi back to the same hotel, the Hotel Catedral.
Richard decided to visit the Soumaya museum, the new museum created by the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim. Unfortunately, Richard went to the wrong campus of the museum. He went to the Plaza Loreto campus, not the Plaza Corzo campus, which is the architecturally impressive building. The Plaza Loreto was interesting, but not that interesting. These museums are not convenient to reach by public transportation, involving two subway rides and a bus ride. Richard had to jam himself into the packed subway car, and it took him three tries to do so.
Richard's big adventure started when he returned to the subway. After he bought his ticket, he noticed two kind of rough looking men watching him. It just felt wrong, so Richard stayed put. The two men passed through the subway turnstiles, stopped, turned around, and kept looking at him. Obviously almost everyone who goes through the turnstiles keeps walking. This more or less proved that they had bad intentions, so Richard left the subway station and walked seven blocks to the next subway station. He made it to the hotel without further incident, but a little shook up. This is probably the closest that Richard has come to getting mugged in his life. He is not sure whether to credit his alertness, his special caution in Mexico City, or his guardian angel, but felt very fortunate.
Sunday we took a taxi to the airport. The ladies were dropped off first, then Richard was dropped off last. Richard took some time to do additional research for his airport article. The flights home were uneventful.
A good trip, nice to be back in Mexico.
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