the alternate route to work

PROS

• Sleep in extra 30 minutes
• Only have to ride one train
• Don’t have to make any train changes or mash through jam packed subway stations
• Built in daily exercise
• Lovely walking views of Paseo de la Reforma and Monument to the Revolution
• Saves 20 minutes off my evening commute.

CONS

• Have to pay for morning combi ride
• Starting the day in the back of an old dingy microbus
• Having to walk a mile and half every day, twice a day.

Paseo de la Reforma is beautiful at night. The city is really interesting and captivating after dark, with the lit sidewalk stalls, the bustle of late commuters, people stopping in to counter service taco cafes for a late supper. Neon and fluorescents, the blue lighting on the monuments which bathes the surroundings in blue light, even the couples everywhere making out on the benches lining the street.

There’s nothing like sitting down at a quiet corner taco shop and getting three tacos al pastor and a sprite. The tortillas are so fried that they don’t separate, but you dont care because they’re amazing and delicious. The piping hot fried seasoned pork meat with pineapple, the fresh onions and cilantro, the lime you just squeezed over it all. To prepare a really authentic mexico city taco, you first have to get a job in Mexico City…