stroll

You know where the artists live in the city by the number of dogs you see being walked per block. While in Mexico City I took a post-conference walk which brought me first to Polanco: a charming neighborhood of Mexico City, lined with beautiful houses, green trees, fancy restaurants, and white-tablecloth cafes. I followed the tourist map to the Bosque de Chapultepec - a large and beautiful park filled with people. Within the park I walked to the Museo de Anthropologia. There I saw 4 voladores (male pole-flyers) wind their way down from a very high pole and walked through room after room filled with things displaying the ways of life, gods and goddesses, and art of the different groups of Mexican inhabitants. I followed the iron fence at the edge of the park and stopped to look at a UNICEF art installation depicting photographs of different children across Mexico (all potentially at risk for HIV). The long afternoon stroll ended in Condessa – a quiet, small neighborhood of Mexico City where I discovered a mural I recognized from a graffiti artist who lives in San Francisco, dinner, the aforementioned couples walking their dogs in the early evening, a margarita, and a well deserved-rest…people-watching.