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Mexico City: Five Days, Part I

Technically I'm in Mexico City for a tattoo appointment but I had been thinking of coming here this year anyway, because a friend from Tokyo used to live here and said I'd love it. Since then, many people have come and gone through CDMX and all of them are infatuated with it. "You'll love the culture," they said. "There's so much to do," everyone raved. So far, they aren't wrong. The only downside is that I do have to write while I’m here. I found out that the next — and final — deadline is end of January and since I’d planned on being here for three to four weeks, that would definitely require me to do some writing. But that’s okay, I deserve it and what is testing out a new city without a looming deadline over your head? Getting to CDMX was easy, once I took San Diegan’s advice that the move was not to fly direct. In fact, there is no direct flight from San Diego to Mexico City and instead I was advised to take the Cross Border Xpress t...