We have enjoyed finishing Day 1 in Puebla. From the minute we got on our short United Air nonstop to Mexico city, we knew we were already in a different land. When we disembarked and met Luis, the tall African-Mexican, all American boy who happens to be a pro basketball player who's using his unusual skill to finance living all over the world, we knew we were back in the world of adventure travel. We love the Mexico city airport now with its odd conglomeration of Mexico city stools: street food like stalls of chilaquiles next to the "mi sushi" chain next to the "Italian coffee" chain next to McDonalds. Makes it kinda hard to figure out, what SHOULD we be ordering for breakfast.
Once we were snug on our luxury bus to Puebla, on the front row seats, I apparently slept an hour as the dawn lit up the jagged peaks around Mexico city basin. There in the early morning sun I work to see two beautiful volcanoes, one extinct, one live, dominating the sky with wispy steam, with classic volcano steam pooling above in the chilly high altitude air. In front were corn fields and rows of corn stalks and the occasional donkey cart, right up against the modern freeway! Pretty cool.
We spent much of the day just roaming Puebla. Beautiful city. Yeah it's a moder n city so AmeriicanHalloween is big, haunted house shrieks are everywhere,, gazillions of shiny red devil costumes. But also the tall brick and tile patterned house stand proud and people are beginning to assemble the colors and send of the season, All Souls Day in ireland, but here in Mexico, so much more, a mystical look at lifr and death with huge indigenous overtones,getting ready to embrace and welcome the possible visits from everyone they've lost.
Oops, falling asleep! Too much wine and tequila based alcohol st dimmer. But boy was it good!
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