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San Miguel | Day 80
This morning, we got up at 8 because Herbert had offered to drive us to San Miguel if we got up early. They think we sleep so much but we just leave the house late because there’s not much to do out in the heat all day! Anyways I was a little apprehensive about being…
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Chapeltique Park | Day 79
Today, we’d been planning to go to Chapeltique and San Miguel to see the surrounding cities, but Kara had to wake me up, or I probably would’ve slept all day. We wanted to go to Chapeltique yesterday, but Mayra said the mototaxis (tuk-tuks) weren’t running because it was Sunday. Today would’ve been good, but since…
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Laundry Day | Day 78
This morning, I woke up to music blaring from the main house. We got out of the guest house late again, walking across the yard around 11. Mayra prepared us breakfast and told us that Don René (the grandpa) loves music so he puts it really loud. It was really cute to watch. Mayra made…
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Planning Day | Day 77
Today, we got up very late. We didn’t wake up late, per se, but we did stay and hang out in the air-conditioned rooms until we couldn’t wait any longer to eat. Kara came to hang out in my room and play cards while I blogged for a while before breakfast. We were having fun…
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Going to see René | Day 76
Today I woke up at 8 and went out to the kitchen to make coffee. I also drank a peach yogurt drink we picked up last night on the way back to our hostel. Once Kara got up and came outside, she made some bean and cheese quesadillas with ingredients we had left over from…
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Cafe Day 2 | Day 75
This morning, I woke up earlier (I’d set an alarm for 8). I went outside to make coffee and sat at the dining table. I worked a bit on yesterday’s blog and called Soph since she doesn’t have classes on Thursdays. I sat out in the kitchen until Kara got up and then we went…
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Cafe Day | Day 74
This morning, I slept in until 11AM. I guess I was tired because even then Kara had to wake me up! I got up and went to the kitchen to make some instant coffee. I finished the leftover pasta salad we made in San Salvador along with some roasted broccoli. I then had my favourite…
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Moving Day, Back to the Beach | Day 73
This morning, I woke up at 7 because we have a LOT of things to do before 11am checkout. I went downstairs and made coffee, pulled my laundry off the clothes lines in the laundry room, played a game of solitaire, made a smoothie and went upstairs to pack my clothes. When my big backpack…
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New Phone in San Salvador | Day 72
Surprise! We’re skipping a few days. It’s a long story but essentially, yesterday, my phone completely stopped working and refuses to turn on or respond to any recovery attempts. We’re currently in San Salvador (a big city, thank goodness) and were able to get to an apple store today to try to figure out what…
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Beach Day | Day 17
This is Niina’s last day in Puerto before she makes her way back to Mexico City to fly back home. We went back to Chuchaqui for breakfast because I told her it was good. I got the same avocado toast as yesterday and tried a coffee lemonade (coffee made with lemonade) to drink. I saw…
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Arriving in Puerto Escondido | Day 16
Note to self – do not use the bathroom on an overnight bus unless it is an absolute emergency. Imagine a plane bathroom except noisier and stinkier with constant turbulence. Also, you can’t throw your toilet paper in the toilet, it has to go in the (now overflowing) garbage, so the wet gross floor is…
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Moving Day | Day 15
Today, I leave Mexico City. I got up and dragged myself out of bed for breakfast. At least I slept better than the past couple nights but I still feel awful. The breakfast was good though, I think I’ve had them all now. I went back to my bunk and slept some more until it…
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Sicker Day | Day 14
Today, I slept a bit better but I feel worse than I did yesterday. Absolutely awful. I suffered through breakfast again, the yummy bean-stuffed tortillas with a fruit bowl. I then went to lay in my bunk and slept from 10am until 4pm. When I woke up, I was sure I had a fever so…
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Sick Day | Day 13
Today, I’m sick sick. Gross feeling, gross sounding, just gross in general honestly. I had one of the worst sleeps of my entire life last night, congestion and cough and runny nose keeping me awake, it was awful. I dragged myself upstairs for breakfast nonetheless because there was no way in hell I was gonna…
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Market Tour | Day 12
Today, I woke up sick. Surprise surprise. I can’t ignore it anymore, my throat is sore, I feel achy and tired, my nose is running nonstop, I’m sick. UGH. I messaged in the hostel group chat a couple days ago to see if anyone wanted to go on my little day trip with me, but…
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Italian Food & Wandering | Day 11
I wanted to go on a day trip to Tepotzotlán north of the city today, but Claudia texted me last night asking if I could change rooms to a female dorm for the rest of my stay because they had to shift some stuff around. I said sure so I got up early to pack…
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Brunch & Tower Views | Day 10
Helllooooo stomach problems AGAIN. Not a joy I tell you. But at least I have this beautiful inspirational poster to look at while I sit in the single bathroom on my entire hostel floor and wait for it to end. Went up for breakfast at 9:30 but before that I also had some green juice…
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Day 9 | Laundry & Cafe
Today was another slow day because I still had to get laundry done after yesterday but at least my stomach was still okay. I got up and went for breakfast at 9:30 as usual. Today was chilaquiles! The fruit bowl was lacking yogurt and the honey syrup was unnecessary but whatever the fruit is good….
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Day 8 | Moving Day
Today was exactly what I needed it to be – very slow-paced and restful. I woke up (well-rested for once) and headed up to the terrace for breakfast at 9:30. This morning, we had a bowl of fruit and some sort of sweet syrup (maybe honey, maybe simple syrup) with some granola, and then a…
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Day 7 | Bike Tour
OKAY hello I’m sorry I haven’t been keeping up but I’ve now been sick for a week so we’re in recovery. BACK ON TRACK let’s go. So today we woke up for Maman’s last day (boooo) and went upstairs for breakfast at 9:30 as usual. We got a little omelette with the fruit and yogurt…
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Day 6 | Bazar San Ángel
This morning, we woke up and showered before heading up to the terrace for breakfast. We had these adorable little skull pancakes today which were delicious, just not my favourite for breakfast because of the sweetness / lack of protein. Niina left today, she came to say goodbye at breakfast but I’m going to see her…
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Day 5 | Teotihuacán & Lucha
Today was PACKED! We started the day bright and early at 4am and quickly got ready to run downstairs and be picked up at 4:20. A shuttle came to get us and we met two American guys (Chris from Florida and Jeremy from Denver) while we were waiting on the sidewalk. Niina was also coming…
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Day 4 | Chapultepec Park
We woke up around 6am this morning for no particular reason, and immediately got up to have showers. Maman had a hot shower and I had a warm one, which I appreciated because Niina was telling us that she still hasn’t had a warm shower yet. We relaxed in the room until 9:30 when it…
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Day 3 | Monarchs
This morning we woke up at 5:45 on purpose, we had an exciting day ahead of us! I took a shower (warm) and then Maman took a shower (barely warm). We’ve discovered that there’s only a tiny bit of hot water and unless we get up before 6:30, odds are we won’t get any. We…
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Day 2 | Wandering Around
This morning, I woke up at 5:30 and could NOT fall back asleep. This was partially due to heat and partially due to the rush hour noise directly outside our window. I got up around 6 and headed to the shower room. The shower was quite an adventure I must say. There was warm water…
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First Post | Arrival
Hello from Mexico City! I decided to start this little blog because I have way too many people to update and way not enough time to update you all individually. Tante Diane gave me the idea so merciiii! Hope you have fun reading along! Maman and I left for the airport around 4:20 this morning…