Mexico City Sept 2025

 Mexico City Sept 2025

THB is back in Eville, and has created a very short trip summary post. Traveling while posting to Travels of THB has become pretty much impossible given the challenges of reduced eyesight, downloading pics, and dealing with a much smaller screen on a portable laptop. And that's without moving locations, just staying in the same hotel room or cruise cabin. 

All 261 pic loaded perfectly from the i-phone onto the E-ville desktop in a few minutes of connectivity. If you are interested in more pics let me know and maybe THB can hone in on  a few for you (concierge service at no charge). And, you can follow SC for this trip and get more details.

An ingenious device, a cut-down hat rack for  purses, jackets, umbrellas. Used in many restaurants, to the point that the restaurants seem quite crowded

From tour of Frida Kahlo's house/museum. Great stop

THB in a 2000 Sydney O's hat in front of the 1968 O's Stadium 

Another great tour, of one of Luis Barragan's architectural masterpieces; there are several around town, and you need to make a reservation well in advance. This is Marlene, our 79 year old guide with a wealth of stories from her life and times. For example, she worked at the 1968 O's as an interpreter and saw Bob Beamon's famous record shattering long jump (THB saw Carl Lewis 2nd longest ever jump in the 1984 O's in LA, Mike Powell now holds the world record, set in 1991)

One of our tour members moving from the house to the terrace. Barragan was a tall guy, Ann is very short!

 A James Turrell-ish indoor swimming pool (Barragan was influenced by Turrell who did a residency in Mexico City...THB thinks...), so TTHB is counting this visit as yet another of seeing Turrell's work around the world. 

Coming soon to a major USA city near you (with or without mask?)

DB poses with THB in front of a walk down memory lane: Sanborn's, where DB went for hamburgers when she was 13 

In the courtyard of the Archeology Museum

A special treat: a collector's house tour. Pictures from inside are not supposed to be posted on the internet. DB spent her 19th summer attending school in the neighborhood. 

On our last morning, DB and THB visit the Tamayo Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum across the street. Another oddity: there are no 2 dimension Tamayo's on display and the Contemporary was closed do to a labor strike. Hmmmm...

DB's parents had left the litho by Tamayo to her, and it hangs over the fireplace at the beach (so we are one up on the Museo Tamayo)

There were many memories created by this trip. And there were many memories revisited! 

Okay, Okay, Okay...one short story. The traffic in Ciudad de Mexico is also memorable. One day we got on the bus got stuck in traffic a short distance from the hotel. Eventually we moved a little and the driver re-routed to get away from the traffic. Where did we end up: back at the hotel about 20 minutes after we left.

Okay, Okay, Okay...one more short-ish story. we were in the bus and had arrived at our last stop of the day (not counting going to dinner after this stop). We are on our way to visit the in-home studio of our local "tour advisor:" jewelry artist, AJF member, and college teacher.  

We get to a guard house and there's a gate that the bus won't fit under. M, our guide, says we are a 4 minute walk from the house. There ensues a 20 minute conversation of whether we should walk or not. Eventually our tour advisor shows up, and leads the bus through the guard house (the guard having been found to raise the gate) and after about 15 minutes up and down hill and dale we end up at the right location. It was no 4 minute walk, at least the route the bus took. If we had walked, there would tour members scattered all over the development, some never to be seen again. 

Vaya con dios, mis amigas y amigos.  THB

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