Coyoacan Therapy

Started today with some soulful regeneration, beginning with some eggs scrambled with fried tortillas and topped with green chile sauce and some “Gouda typica manchego" cheese. It’s not Gouda although it has about the same consistency, it’s nothing like manchego, it’s more like a mozzarella but with a more mild, creamy flavor. Only produced in Mexico apparently. Washed it all down with pineapple juice.

If mexico city starts to get you down, I highly recommend the 3 step Coyoacan method.
First, howerver, you need to get there. Take the metro to Viveros station. WARNING: side effects may include desire to leap in front of train, alienation, claustrophobia, malaise, dehydration, overheating. If you are susceptible to any of these conditions, take a taxi.

1. Walk through the Viveros (nursery) of Coyoacan. The high concentration of oxygen from young plants, the inquisitive squirrels who will come beg food from you, the sight of fencers and martial artists in the trees, the natural beauty and serenity will restore your faith in the world.
2. Drink a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice from a vendor outside the gates. This will replenish your levels of vitamin C and faith that life was meant to be enjoyed.
3. Buy a cappuchino from jarrochos on Mexico avenue and sit and listen to the guitar player. You will probably never be as rich as the spandex clad bicyclists also enjoying coffee with you, but that doesn’t matter, because now you can do anything. 

It’s a whole new world and a new day, and you can choose to sit back and relax and watch the busy world go by, or you can jump in and grab it because you are PUMPED on caffeine and orange juice and oxygen and nothing’s going to stop you man YEAH LET’S DO IT
WHOOOOO!

I bought a small leather satchel at the market in Coyoacan, since I just usually carry a few things and don’t always need my full size Freitag. $7, although when I got home I hand stitched reinforcements on the shoulder strap.

Also went to a lovely new bookstore in Coyoacan, part of the Elena Garota(?) Museum. Beautiful glass and concrete addition with live trees inside. No books in English however. The “foreign" section was all French.
Walked to a distant metro station and caught the really new line. The trains are shockingly modern and clean and the stations were beautiful and elegant works of utilitarian modernism.

Got off in Polanco and took an hour or so to find the Museum Soumayer.