taco's & toucan's travels ~ 2019

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DAY 13

Week 2

BOISE (Idaho, USA) to MEXICO CITY (Ciudad de México, MEX)

Wednesday March 27^th, 2019

TODAYS MILEAGE – 2,231 miles / 3,590 kilometres

TRIP MILEAGE – 13,930 miles / 22,418 kilometres

Who ever thought it’d be a great idea to get up at 2AM, to make a 7AM flight departure, needs to have their freckle flossed with the rough end of a pineapple. I’m on holidays and there’s no need for such stupidity – but I was up none the less.

I dropped off the Silver 'Stang with an extra 424.4 miles (683 k's) on it for the week and checked in. I headed through airport security that's manned by a cast of thousands with a combined IQ of an Arctic summers day temperature reading - the TSA ..... or 'Thousands Standing Around', as I like to call them. They asked me for Government issued ID and after passing my licence back and forth between the 5 of them, it became apparent that Queensland does not have a recognised government as their licences are not accepted – go figure.

My flight into Dallas, Texas went for a bit over 3½ hours, then a similar layover with no less than three gate changes, between two separate satellite terminals, before the 2½ hour flight time into Mexico City’s – Benito Juarez International Airport.

Speaking of which, I have to say that Latin America's busiest airport by passenger traffic and aircraft movements was the quickest landing, luggage collection & leaving the airport experiences I have had in a long while ..... and that was including having to fill out an Immigration form in duplicate.

I got chatting with my transfer driver, on the way over to the centrally located Posada Viana Hotel and he gave me a few pointers on getting around the most populous city in North America, including stopping at La Barrita Marisqueria that’s pretty much one of the cleanest hole in the wall eateries, that throws on a great seafood feed.

Couldn’t help myself on the way home. I found a local dive bar with Happy Hour 20 Peso Corona’s. That works out at $1.06 in Australian 'South Pacific Pesos'.