{"id":5666,"date":"2016-12-20T19:17:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2016-12-20T19:17:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:17:30","slug":"a-change-of-latitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5666","title":{"rendered":"A Change of Latitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Georgia\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/30932319204\/\" title=\"Mexico City 008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/665\/30932319204_0412b42419_n.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"320\" hspace=10 align=right alt=\"Mexico City 008\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Two weeks ago, we hadn&#8217;t any real intention of dashing off on an actual vacation&#8230; but it seems like a good time to go, as D&#8217;s contract in Vacaville is 98% over, and new directions seem to be pointing north&#8230; so this will be our last change to go South for a while.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>While Mexico City is only four hours away by air, it is a world away in culture. A lively city with a chaotic traffic experience of humans-vs-cars, it provides a colorful backdrop to an immense artistic sensibility. Whether the decorations are murals or spray painted greetings, tiles or wrought iron, there&#8217;s never a dull or boring spot on which to rest the eye. A big city isn&#8217;t exactly a restful spot for a vacation, but D has wanted T to experience the trip, as he spent a few days in the city when he was a tween, and remembered its frenetic pace and unique sights.<\/p>\n<table border=0 align=left hspace=10>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/31774561965\/\" title=\"Mexico City 023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/631\/31774561965_3228854bac_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"71\" alt=\"Mexico City 023\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/31774554395\/\" title=\"Mexico City 022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/1\/527\/31774554395_24e161703c_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"65\" alt=\"Mexico City 022\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p class=Indent>Today&#8217;s fun discovery was an old vegetarian restaurant called Yug which opened in 1965. Delicious and cheap, and you can order anything on the menu, even &#8220;carnitas,&#8221; which contain no actual carne. Another  new thing we learned about Ciudad de Mexico? It&#8217;s at a higher altitude than the Bay Area. Predictably, T. is having bouts of nausea, and we&#8217;re taking it slooooowly as we&#8217;re a bit headachey and out of breath, but fortunately nobody minds the slow walkers here. <\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We have tours booked for the next 4 days, visiting Cuernavaca, Taxco, Teotihuacan (for an evening light show), Chapultepec (for a before-opening tour), the National Muesum of Anthropology, Coyoac\u00e1n, the Frida Kahlo Museum, Xochimilco (by boat!), and the National University.  All that, in the next 4 days.  After that we&#8217;ll have to see how we feel, and maybe consider whether we want to do more touristy things or to do some shorter things on our own.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>-D &#038; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=center clear=both><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/31627816972\/\" title=\"Mexico City 021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/428\/31627816972_d49b1250d9_c.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Mexico City 021\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, we hadn&#8217;t any real intention of dashing off on an actual vacation&#8230; but it seems like a good time to go, as D&#8217;s contract in Vacaville is 98% over, and new directions seem to be pointing north&#8230; so this will be our last change to go South for a while. 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