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CDMX

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Aterrizar en Ciudad de México (no más el DF) con nevados cubiertos de nubes rodeando un valle gigante, una ciudad masiva y puntos brillantes de techos de zinc. Taxis rosas merodean las calles con casas que parecen cubos de colores, uno encima del otro. Todo parece asfalto y de pronto aparecemos en Chapultepec. Hay feria rodeada de bosque con aire de historia de batalla que ahora es paz de tarde de fin de semana. No logramos entrar al castillo pero mi ñaña me hizo sonreír igual.  Despierto a que hacemos este viaje juntas y en el regreso veo a los niños comiendo las tlayudas y tortas de las que hablaba el Chavo. Alcanzo a entrar al Museo de Arqueología y pienso en todas las flechas de museos alrededor. Hay tanto que aprender. Este museo en particular se siente más como una herramienta didáctica que un lugar de exhibición, me encanta. Me encanta leer de una ciudad perdida llamada malpaís y arte teotihuacano y maya del que siempre he visto reportajes lejanos, de lo

Sydneysiding

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I woke up to the Tasman Sea below me. As soon as I landed I was asked for my yellow fever vaccine. I broke into a sweat knowing I hadn’t brought it with me, hadn’t even thought about it. They sent me into another line and looking through my phone I was lucky to find the picture of it from going to Tiputini. The officer told me they were very serious about the vaccines; they didn’t want yellow fever back in the continent. I only understood once I was finally out in the Australian sun taking the ferry to Manly and Q station, the quarantine island where hundreds lived and died to prevent epidemics from spreading in Australia til the 80s.  View of Sydney coming back from Manly Manly’s beach was beautiful yet I was mostly fascinated with the first cockatoo I saw by a street light. I stared at it for as long as I could in disbelief, taking endless terrible pictures; I had only seen cockatoos with wings cut and in cages. I also couldn’t believe more people weren’t as amazed