This entry is actually being done on the 26th, after the day of travel I was in bed by 9:30 and exhausted.
The day started very early, we were up at 4:30 and at the gate by 6. In hindsight we could have probably slept another 45 minutes, but you never know what the lines will be like a Newark Liberty Airport. The airport was packed, I think many travelers did what we had done and came down the night before to insure they made their connections.
The weather was a bit cold and freezing rain. It delayed our flight by about 30 minutes as all planes had to be That is not thought for me, I dont like flying that much in the first place, but add an extra procedure and my stress level goes up another notch. The first 30 minutes of the flight was much too turbulent for me, and it was very evident on my face, even if you could only see my eyes.
The flight overall was good, we were in first class so had much than on the Flintstones air plane we were on the day before.
We were served breakfast, option egg white kale Omelette, there are so many things wrong with that dish, I not even going to get started. We both choose the other option a banana fosters waffle, it was pretty good. After breakfast Jerry tried to sleep and I just watched movies, including a very old Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor. About half way through the flight, it was time for wine, so had a pretty decent class (or three) of Chardonnay.
The landing in Mexico City, was pretty smooth and it was a very nice day, 78 and sunny skies. Our luggage was actually waiting for us at baggage claim by the time we cleared customs, which was pretty painless. On the last few trips, we have been taking a taxi to our hotel, but this trip we decided to go back to the way we traveled when we were younger, and took the metro.
The good news is that the metro does go directly to the airport, the not so good mood, it is a very long walk from international arrival baggage claim to the metro stop. It is all flat, be got our steps
Our plan is to use the metro a lot while we are here, so first stop at the station was getting a metro card. The language barrier kicked in, (my Spanish wont kick in until day three), fortunately there was a young man behind us who helped us get through the process. Ok, I have to stop here, I am old, I just said young man, instead of a man. We dont think of ourselves as being senior citizens, but with the constant AARP mailings it is getting harder to deny, I even took advantage of Senior Tuesdays at a local grocery store the other day. Ok back to our travels. The trip to our hotel involved two separate transfers, the first leg was pretty straight forward, the transfer was a bit confusing and a lot of up and down stairs (we were lucky we were not packed for Europe, we only had one checked bag and two to our normal 2 or three checked and 4 worse if traveling with Tarragon. The second leg of the trip which was also the longest started off fine,
but as we came to each successive stop, more and more people got on a few got off. It was NYC rush hour packed on the 6 train. When we arrived at our stop, we doubted we even make it off, but we did. It was a very interesting people watching experience. Culturally speaking Mexicans are very laid back, but on the metro, you thought you were in Manhattan. At a few stops, the boarding people simply would not let the offboarding get off the metro and people form the back were shoving people on to the metro, I have visions of Tokyo (not that we have been) where I hear there are people that it is there job to shove people in to the train.
We did manage to get off and make it to the final transfer. The transfer between is not a matter of walking across the tracks, it involves a bit of a rock, for those of you familiar with the A train and Time Square, it would be like transferring from the A to the 1 at time Square, except up and down stairs would be involved.
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