Mexico...where movember is a lifestyle, not a charity

(Postdated: 02/09/2008)

Mexico

This 2nd update will detail my time in mexico for the time being, for the lazy or faint at heart this update will include mentions of beer, nudity and general shenanigans.

Cd. Juarez
Dodgy ass boarder town no one should be stuck in longer than 5 min, and of course I was there for 2 hours attempting to find the immigration office to track down this elusive tourist card and get my passport stamped. With many a official sending your kindly author in the wrong direction, when all I had to do was find the other bridge, easier than it sounds when there is only 2 bridges, 300m apart.

Pachuca (new home town)
For a Mexican city Pachuca is somewhat on the small side, with a population of about 300,000 it is of a reasonable enough size for me. The town itself is ringed in by hills on all sides, which is pretty cool as each morning when i take my 2nd minibus to work i get to see the sun rising over the hills lighting up the town, if i remember there will be photos.

(continuing on from Part 1 my introduction to Pachuca......) After arriving late Saturday night into Pachuca, Sunday was show the Australiano the true mexican experience day. First there was breakfast of tacos, then we were to go to the sauna, which i thought meant a bit of a swim and a lazy sweat and steam. Not exactly. Alarm bells should have started ringing about the point where a request was not made for me to bring the swimming trunks, maybe we were going to a classy venue which supplied trunks for perplexed gringo's. Sauna did not really mean swimming as I so wrongly thought it did.
In the car to the 'sauna' the dictionary was brought out again, mmm, undress was the word in english. ok, when in pachuca, do as..... yes it was the fully nude sauna experience i really wanted to experience on my 2nd day in Mexico. there was most sausage than that time we went to the wiener festival in Austria.

The rest of the day went rather smoothly as we traveled to various location in Pachuca, my landlord and his friend making sure i sampled as many local delicacies as possible in the one day. So I would be round and fat ready for work the next day.


Random points of note about Mexico so far......

Cerveza – Mexican beer an experience in itself, light and tasty enough that it is perfectly normal to flavour with various substances such as with salt and lime, and don't get me wrong, all those wankers in Australia with their lime'd corona are still wankers. but the ¾ beer ¼ lime and salt mix works so well.

Work - Just some quick points I will allocate some more details on this another time.
I live in another town 30km away from where i work so each day is an adventure. I must take 2 minibuses (combi) to get from my house in the hills, to the centro, change to the next one to the bus station and then take a long distance bus to Tizayuca then take another combi to Rey Cartonera (work). Oh the fun times I have.
For those not in the know I am working at a paper manufacturing facility, which recycles old cardboard to make the paper rather than pulping woodchips, it is one of the biggest paper manufacturers in North America.

Public Transport - They are all over the public transport business here like white on rice in a snowstorm. With mini vans (Combi's) serving the general population as a faster, cheaper and smaller alternative to buses, I can get to most place around town in about 20min. But when these fine devices of human evolution stop running for the night one can always take one of the many taxi's of Pachuca. for $6 i can get 25min across town to where the bars are at, tis pretty sweet.


Road Trip 1
A couple of weeks or so ago i went on a bit of a road trip with a friend of a friend to, 'the mall' of DF (Mexico City), basically an epic mall of outlet stores, where I made the purchase of Calvin Klein jeans for ½ price and at $30 I could have easily have fed 40 staving mexican children for maybe a month if they began cannibalism early on in that period of time. Yes I am a label whore.


more road trips as they happen, stay tuned for more exciting updates from the whitest aussie in mexico


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