My first 20ish hours have been fun but uneventful. My hotel (recommended by a buddy from college who just spent about 4 months here) is right off of the Zocalo, the main plaza at the heart of the city. The area around here is beautiful, with tons of amazingly grand spanish colonial buildings and, of course, a massive cathedral (catholicism is written into the constitution). I wandered around a bit last night to get the lay of the land, ate a bit of food (see previous post) and went to sleep in my comfortable, but extraordinarily small room. Today I took a run when I first woke up, then wandered around some of the sights in the Zocalo. After this post, I´ll head off to grab some lunch, which I´m hoping is spectacular. A few observations about life here so far:
1) I´ve seen the following american chains so far: McDonalds, Walmart, Pizza Hut, 7-11 (lots of them), the set it and forget it guy on TV, Sears, etc.... Mostly stuff down here isn´t american, but it certainly isn´t hard to bump into some our economic imperialism
2) My hotel room is really small - in a lot of ways, it really is perfect - exactly the space I need with nothing more. But here is the rub - it has a boat style bathroom, where the shower pretty much is part of the room and gets everything soaked. What if you want to go to the bathroom within an hour of taking a shower?
3) I think I´m going to like eating things wrapped and fried. More on that at a later time.
4) I came down here with my hiking pants as my only long pants. I think I´m going to buy jeans.
that´s it for now.
2 comments:
try putting the seat up when you take a shower. sometimes that helps
that´s a great idea! now I{m going to be scared that I{ll fall into the toilet during the shower though!
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