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Quick jaunt to the monarchs

I finally get to visit the monarch migration!

For many years, I’ve wanted to see the monarch migration.  While we’ve been in Mexico in almost the right time, or almost the right place it’s never all worked out before.  Since we finally had all of the pieces, I was excited to plan this trip.

Our choices were to go on a tour or rent a car and do it ourselves.  Still scarred from a less-than-stellar van tour in Oaxaca, we immediately threw that option out.  Finding a rental car was no problem—there are a million options in Mexico City.  After previous experience, we were also familiar with the document we needed to request from our credit card to show that we already had the insurance coverage they might push us to pay for.  

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Much love for Mexico City

The intricate post office is just one of the stunning sites in Mexico City that keep drawing us back.

When I was growing up, I had only bad impressions of Mexico City—too big and too polluted.  It’s funny that this city has unexpectedly been one of our favorites—already on repeat.

The city is overwhelmingly enormous, but if you break it down and just focus on the neighborhood you are in it quite manageable.  We really only know the smallest, most privileged part of the city—Condesa and Roma Norte.  While we explore far beyond these areas, the layers of the city are so thick that I won’t say that we properly know them.

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