¡Viva México!

The land of tacos and tequila! Mexico City (aka Cuidad de México aka CDMX) wore a lot of hats for us this past month: it was our halfway point, our last month in Latin America, our supposedly "most livable city" on our itinerary (I'm going to disagree on this one), our closest stop to the United States (leading to many of the Americans making quick trips home), our taco haven, and much more.

I feel like this sign should be in Español but let's just go with it

I have mixed feelings on Mexico City, but they are mostly due to the stomach plague that struck me early in the month, and then lasted for a solid two and a half weeks. I still cannot say whether it was caused by something I ate, something I drank, or just a bug going around. I can say that it affected the majority of our group throughout the month and led to us being unable to engage in a lot of the activities (and eating!) that we were most excited about in Mexico. This is also the main reason I cannot personally refer to Mexico City as the most livable city we live in: once I finally recovered, I lived in constant fear of eating or drinking or doing something that would cause a relapse, and I don't think that's a fun way to live. And I promise I'm not just being dramatic!!

Stomach issues aside (sorry if that was TMI), June was still full of highlights, so without further ado:

San Diego: I was one of the aforementioned Americans who went back to the states during the month. I visited San Diego for a week, and words cannot describe how wonderful that week was. The trip was packed with so many of my favorite things: sunset happy hours, beach time, burritos, SparkCycle, Shore Club slushies (even though I swore I wouldn't have any, oops) and most importantly, quality time with my peeps. I need to give an enormous shoutout to all of my San Diego friends and clients who I got to spend time with, you made my time back in town everything and more.

Just a few of my San Diego loves (I was not good about taking pics on this trip)

I'm going to get real cliché here: absence truly makes the heart grow fonder! I officially love San Diego more than ever before. <3

Confession: these San Diego pics are old but LOOK HOW PRETTY

Tulum Side Trip: A bunch of us got a sweeeeet air bnb (very well done on the booking @Erlyn!!) in Tulum to have a few R&R days, as opposed to our typical side trips that are packed full with exploring/activities. My main takeaway from Tulum is that cenotes are mind-blowing. Go to Tulum for the cenotes. If you don't know what cenotes are, you can check some out here. I didn't really take pics while we were there because I was too busy swimming through the underwater caves. And OK, I guess technically visiting cenotes counts as an activity, but that is all that we did besides eat and drink and lounge (we also worked a little bit, womp womp).

The crew working and playing in Tulum

Actividades in and around CDMX: Hot air ballooning over the Teotihuacan pyramids, attending a Lucha Libre show, celebrating MDW in Cuernavaca, boating through the canals of Xochimilco... these are a handful of the really cool experiences Mexico City has to offer, and happen to be the ones I took advantage of. Each was so memorable and unique. And these don't even scratch the surface of all the things there are to do in CDMX. The city is bursting with people, culture and scenes for all tastes, which I suppose is why so many Remote Year people move here at the end of their Remote Year.

No pics will do justice to this hot air balloon experience
Seriously... we were just floating out there, above the clouds. Surreal.
Xochimilco so nice I did it twice

World Cup: Ole ole oleeeeee! We were lucky enough to be living in Mexico for the start of the 2018 World Cup, during which Mexico upset Germany (woo!), beat South Korea, lost to Sweden, and then were graced by the sports gods when South Korea knocked out Germany, allowing Mexico to advance to the next round. I'm not going to pretend to know a lot about soccer (sorry, fútbol) but I do know that the city went NUTS over these games, to the point where fans jumping up and down literally caused an earthquake. I shamelessly hopped on the bandwagon, buying a jersey and rooting for Mexico over any of the other teams in the tournament. It was so fun to have a team to cheer for while I impatiently wait for football (real football) season!

Bandwagoning so hard #soyméxico... also Hans came to visit! 

I'm not going to lie, I am not sad at all to leave Mexico behind. I did a lot of cool things here and I did appreciate being able to pop back to the states for a week. But like I said, the stomach plague struggle was real. And do you know what leaving Mexico means? WE'RE GOING TO EUROPE BABY!! 
Location: Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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