MD-23

We're winding up our trip now, and we'll be taking the red-eye flight this evening back to Vancouver. It's been a trip, and fun to make little drawings and post small observations and experiences along the way. I've been drawing pretty much every day - some gaps notwithstanding. I've often wondered about this sketching safari as a form of travel and observation. A travelogue of the experience made with words and ink, and I'm curious how it feels to receive these posts... perhaps, once I'm back, I'll finally set up that Conversations with Readers that I've been wanting to - I have more questions than answers - which seems as it should be.

As I was pondering the darkening sky, I was reminded by Arif that maybe I was chalanting. I have diligently been practising non-chalanting on this trip, and yet I have had to acknowledge that this thread has been happily skipping alongside me, and occasionally getting caught up in the works. Still, by all measures, my chalanting is a threadbare affair; and at best, it is only a mild case of chalanting, eminently curable, despite my discussions of pending social collapse.

Food

We decided to splurge a bit on food on our last go around, and it had a redeeming quality. Our eating-out experience in Mexico hasn't been exactly stellar... good food here and there, some meh things and a few highlights, but we both held out that we make better tacos than we have tasted here – our last home-made shrimp tacos with corn and chipotle were simply outstanding, you'll forgive the personal bias. Cocktails, too, were ok, but then again, not much to write about.

We saw more art and more museums, and wonderful architecture than I've been able to write about; there is a great wealth of that here in CDMX, and I'll post more about things seen and felt here, down the road.

It is a city of contrasts, as a banner we saw loudly proclaimed.

If in some future incarnation, I were to be born into a life of hawking things at a stand, to make my living in CDMX – I'd wish it to be a flower stall...

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As always, thanks for reading and indulging!
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