In my second week in Mexico City I had tightness in my stomach. This often happens to me when I travel. The new water and diet means new microbes which have not yet made friends with my digestive system. I usually don’t do anything, but this time I remembered what I used to do when traveling along the rivers of the Congo basin rainforest. The water we drank was not as pure as you could hope for. I used to chew 2 Pepto Bismol tablets a day. It slows the growth of harmful microbes. It helped me in the Congo and it worked for me in Mexico City.
I have been using a collapsible coffee cone for a couple of years now. Where I lived in India you could buy instant coffee, but the ground coffee supply was limited and there were no pour over coffee filters in the stores. On my first visit I found some coffee, but only had enough filters to use 1 every 3 days. I had to dry and reuse them. Believe me, I remembered the coffee filters the next time. I recommend the collapsible pour over coffee brew cone pictured.
There are crossing lights in some of the places I have been in Mexico City. I never saw one in India. It was intimidating crossing the road. Whenever possible I looked for where other people were crossing the road and stuck with them. You would think that a motorist would be less likely to mow down three people than one. The other day here in Mexico City I followed a man across 4 lanes when the crossing light was red. We hit it wrong and a wave of cars and trucks came at us. After we sprinted to the other side we had a bonding moment. As Winston Churchill once said, “There is nothing more exhilarating than getting shot at and missed.”
Adventures in Suburbia 