Felt fingers on my butt on the subway this morning, wallet gone, raised a fuss, could feel someone pulling on the wallet chain, eventually he ran off, wallet OK and unopened, myself pretty shaken, had to go sit for an hour to stop knees shaking.

Once the adrenaline wore off I set off again, spent most of the day just walking around the downtown, markets, art galleries, ate ant egg tacos for lunch which were kinda great.

Was walking back home around 6 last night and heard someone yelling my name, assumed it couldn’t be me and kept walking, heard my name again and laughter, definitely for me. Across the street was Luis from the bar last night, awkward hug and promised him I would stop in again for a drink, freshened up at home and went back to the bar, still crazy nice people, still pretty much their only customer.

Left the bar around midnight in search of dinner, took subway to El Vilsito (learned from Anthony Bourdain) an auto body shop by day, taco place at night, best food ever.

Too excited to sleep much, up early and out the door, walked around a while and had some sort of breakfast thing from a sidewalk taco place, crazy good, they find my Spanish to be hilarious.

Headed back to the airbnb at 9 to meet up with my guide, Nadia and her driver Ivan. Spent the day at various Aztec and older sites, climbed pyramids, drank pulque, fun.

On the way home last night I stopped in at a bar that turned out to be awesome and friendly and managed by a guy who worked at The Keefer in Van for 5 years. All three bartenders, Dina, Carlos and Luis were super friendly, probably didn’t hurt that I was their only customer.

Found my airbnb, was greeted by my lovely hostess Aurora just in time for a breakfast of pineapple tamales and coffee with her and a couple of her friends, the place is great.

Exploring the city, found my way to Mercado San Juan, saw butchers selling iguana and skunk meat. The lunch special in the market was beans and rice, followed by menudo and then a couple chicken tacos for $4, the guy next to me told me it was the best deal in the city and then he paid for mine, hoping everyone is this friendly.

Walked through the National Museum which has been a to-do list item for years, impressive but all signage in Spanish meant lots of guessing as to the identity and significance of each piece, if I am on point then I’m pretty sure the statue in this pic is Steve the God of Haircuts.

Now that Aero Mexico has a direct flight from Vancouver getting there is really easy, flight leaves at Midnight, lands at 7:00am, great if you can sleep on planes.