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Our last minute trip to Mexico City went well. Hurricane Dean wasn’t an issue anymore by the time we arrived inland Mexico. There were only some rain at night and actually it helped cleaned out the pollution quite a bit. This was my first time visiting a Spanish speaking country. Jon was learning it on the fly. Communication was not that much of a problem because people would tried their best to understand when I spoke in English with some gestures. In many ways Mexican people are humble and helpful.

Thank you for Leon and Jorge! You are great hosts and look forward to seeing you in SF.

Remembered the first time I went back to China after four years living in US, the first a few hours I felt I was in a foreign land. And being in Mexico City, all the suddent I had the feeling that I was in China. Very strange. It might because of seeing those incomplete and disfunctional buildings in Zona Rosa made me nostalgically thinking about China. I often see them as urban monuments. Later we found out that a lot of them were actually ruined during the earthquake. That is very different from China’s broken-tail projects. Yes, Mexico is very different.

Metro
Subway system in Mexico City is serving a great population. And it’s often packed like this. There were mobil pirate DVD sellers roaming between train carts. They had backpack-speakers and played videos with one of those portable LCD DVD players.

Subway stop sinages were made up with icons that represent the areas, so that illiterate people can also understand.

This is a sinage in Anthropology Museum.

No smoking!

Zocalo

Pyramid

On the way to the Pyramid, I finally got to see the famous squater settlement in Mexico City. The density on the mountains was intense and unforgetable.

National Museum of Anthropology

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