We made it into Mexico City yesterday afternoon after some interesting navigation by yours truly (davis). By setting the GPS to "avoid tollways" I saved us a lot of money - tolls are very expensive here and always x2 since we are on two vehicles - but we were led all over the place through outlying towns to avoid the interstate that virtually everybody takes. We kept turning down these tiny, one way streets for a few blocks at a time while I told Marion on the intercom, "don't worry, this is the main route to Mexico City, everybody takes this route.." Lots of traffic and both cold and hot as we descended from over 9000 feet into the valley where 20 million people live. Today, November 20th, is Revolution Day - a major national holiday and the reason we had so much trouble finding a hotel downtown with a vacancy for the weekend. The hotel our friend's husband found us turned out to be really great (and cheap) and we have free, secure underground parking for our bikes. We are in a nice quiet part of town near all the big banks and embassies, just off Paseo de la Reforma. At least it's quiet on a weekend.
Mexico City is awesome! The city is beautiful, very wealthy in the center, and absolutely enormous. We set out after breakfast this morning to walk around and head towards the centro to find out that most of the major streets were closed to vehicular traffic for the big Viente de Noviembre Revolucion Parade. Virtually the entire parade is on horseback - we have never seen so many horses. Probably a thousand horses, all with a checkerboard pattern combed into their rear ends with what looked to me like hair gel. Here are some pics and hopefully Marion will post some good stuff soon!
Oh - and here's a link to an unfortunately slow-loading movie that we took, complete with sound!
http://gallery.me.com/roscotrading#100106/MVI_1847&bgcolor=black
Mexico City is awesome! The city is beautiful, very wealthy in the center, and absolutely enormous. We set out after breakfast this morning to walk around and head towards the centro to find out that most of the major streets were closed to vehicular traffic for the big Viente de Noviembre Revolucion Parade. Virtually the entire parade is on horseback - we have never seen so many horses. Probably a thousand horses, all with a checkerboard pattern combed into their rear ends with what looked to me like hair gel. Here are some pics and hopefully Marion will post some good stuff soon!
Oh - and here's a link to an unfortunately slow-loading movie that we took, complete with sound!
http://gallery.me.com/roscotrading#100106/MVI_1847&bgcolor=black
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