This morning was exciting. I thought my flight was leaving at 1200 or so, so I shared a taxi to the airport with my coworker at 0745. I discovered this morning that my flight left at 0955. Skippy go fast! Fortunately, Saturday morning in Mexico City is a pretty dead time -- we made the airport in about 40 minutes, and I breezed through check-in ( Read more... )

A few years back, there was a movie. That movie had as one of its more famous quotations, "People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of its people." I always thought there was a certain logic to this statement, but spending some time in Mexico has made me wonder. Specifically, about the law enforcement arm of ( Read more... )

Crazy days astern. Monday was one of the more exciting installations I've every had. I flew down to Mexico. Fortunately for me, I just qualified for Silver on Continental, and got upgraded to First Class for the International segments of my flights (IAH-MEX, MEX-IAH). It was actually an interesting experience in a surprising sort of way. ( Elaboration on Misunderstanding Self-Serve Kiosks )

I've successfully made it to the Hotel Nikko in Mexico City. So far my trip has been uneventful, and I've managed to bungle through the airport and charter a cab to take me to my hotel. I'm realizing now that not taking any of my electronics (except my camera) was unreasonable paranoia on my part, but I'll live with that. Although Mexico doesn't ( Read more... )