"Walk In Any Direction"

Giacomo, somewhere in Mexico City. Click on the blog link below to see videos and photos of the days adventure.

It was the recommendation of my friend David Lynch that prompted me to stop in Mexico City for a week before continuing on to Colombia. This was his advice, “Don’t make plans. Just walk in any direction”.

We have mostly done that, and it is the way to go. I am not much of a planner anyway. I just like to stumble on things, and indeed we did yesterday when our one plan, visiting the Frida Khalo museum, fell through because (word to the wise) you have to buy tickets in advance. Doh! So we aimlessly wandered in a plant fair, then a larger arboretum park, and then over to the Teatro Nacionale, which didn’t seem to have much going on….and so down a beautiful old street that led us to a park FILLED with relaxed, joyous people and clowns and musicians and jugglers and traditional dancers, and a big wedding coming ouf of a cathedral and….it was amazing. The Mexican people really know how to hang on a Holiday….it was the 6th of May, so maybe it was a Cinco De Mayo celebration, or maybe it was just another Saturday. I don’t know.

The park was Jardín Centenario in the municipality of Coyoacán, an area known for cobblestone streets, colonial architecture and ….Frida Kahlo. We stopped at a FANTASTIC seafood place for dinner (yes, we have let loose our Vegan ways for this trip), made all the more fantastic with two shots of top shelf mescal. Then Churros at the corner stand, then….lighenting, then thunder, then RAIN! Unprepparred and without wifi for an Uber rescue (Mexcio CIty has free wifi almost everywhere,…. except when we get caught in the rain). So we begged wifi and shelter from a nearbye restaurant and got an Uber home.

Ubers are affordable and an easy way to get around, and again, wifi almost everywhere, so if you have no cell plan for Mexico (which we do not) you are not dead in the water.

Now we are off to Mexico Park so that I can finish a watercolor…..my daily painting thing is not in full swing yet, but next post I will show the result of today’s efforts, and show a bunch of pics of murals (ironically none of which are Diego Rivera).

I leave you with the life of the party.