Transportation in CDMX
Transportation within Mexico City is what you’d expect from any modern city. Taxis, buses, trains, rideshare all are present and work as you’d expect.
Xochimilco
About an hour outside of Mexico City is where you’ll find Xochimilco (sow·chee·meel·kow), home to a series of floating islands. Though, they aren’t actually floating islands, they only appear that way. The islands are connected to the earth.
On My Mexico City Bookshelf
Our apartment in Mexico City is tastefully furnished with comfortable seating, gentle lighting, and numerous bookshelves containing a wide variety of books in Spanish and in English.
Tourist week in CDMX
This strange new world of slow travel has us enjoying the amazing privilege of just rolling with whatever we feel like doing. In our second week here in Mexico City we decided to actually do more of the touristy things that we’d heard about.
Let’s Go to Church
When planning our time in Mexico City a year ago I had a church mapped out, not too far from our apartment, that is the same denomination as we attend in the U.S. (Lutheran).
First Week in CDMX
We’ve been in Mexico City for one week now and we have managed to check off a number of firsts…
You did what?? Visited the Dentist!
I expect that will be the initial reaction when family and friends back home learn that one of the first things I did upon leaving the U.S. was to book an appointment to go to the dentist.
Castillo de Chapultepec
There’s a large park about 25 minutes away from our place in Polanco, CDMX. There are a number of attractions there including a botanica garden and a museum of anthropology but yesterday we went to visit Castillo de Chapultepec.
Las medicinas
One of the things that we’d wanted to accomplish internationally is getting prescription medications. Turns out that in Mexico my cholesterol medicine does not even require a prescription.