Now in Chiapas!
A quick rundown of a few of the wonderful things that have happened in the last two days.
1. Left our host family in Jungapeo. That was actually hella sad.
2. Had probably the most exciting airport encounter ever. Our bus dropped us off at the airport 30 minutes before our plane left. Not knowing where the ticket counter was, we ran until we found a security guard, and ran more tossing a rushed "gracias" his way as we continued in the direction he indicated. Before we even got to the ticket counter, Sarah shows one of the Click Mexicana employees our boarding passes and says that we only have 25 minutes to get ourselves on the plane. He says it's possible but very difficult. At this he leads us ducking under the barriers they use to control the flow of lines at airports. We cut the line at security, get waved through (as opposed to the 20 minutes TSA took to search the bags in SFO) and run to the gate. At this point our tireless guide leaves us with 15 minutes to spare. Of course, the plane isn't at the gate. It's somewhere else (which was expected) and we continue down to the tarmac with two Japanese women in the same predicament. Mind you, Sarah and I are still lugging all the bags we expected to check since there was no time for that. We pile into a van on the tarmac, get stuck in traffic for a few minutes (yes, the tarmac has traffic, apparently) and get onto the plane in time to stuff 3 bags into the overhead and two down below before taking off. Epic.
3. Tacos Arabes. Made with pita bread and pork. I don't think any Muslim has ever eaten them. Ever.
4. We toured two indigenous communities with Raúl of the Alex and Raúl tour company. That's right. The Raúl. I'll leave it to Sarah to fill in the rest.
-Ezra
1. Left our host family in Jungapeo. That was actually hella sad.
2. Had probably the most exciting airport encounter ever. Our bus dropped us off at the airport 30 minutes before our plane left. Not knowing where the ticket counter was, we ran until we found a security guard, and ran more tossing a rushed "gracias" his way as we continued in the direction he indicated. Before we even got to the ticket counter, Sarah shows one of the Click Mexicana employees our boarding passes and says that we only have 25 minutes to get ourselves on the plane. He says it's possible but very difficult. At this he leads us ducking under the barriers they use to control the flow of lines at airports. We cut the line at security, get waved through (as opposed to the 20 minutes TSA took to search the bags in SFO) and run to the gate. At this point our tireless guide leaves us with 15 minutes to spare. Of course, the plane isn't at the gate. It's somewhere else (which was expected) and we continue down to the tarmac with two Japanese women in the same predicament. Mind you, Sarah and I are still lugging all the bags we expected to check since there was no time for that. We pile into a van on the tarmac, get stuck in traffic for a few minutes (yes, the tarmac has traffic, apparently) and get onto the plane in time to stuff 3 bags into the overhead and two down below before taking off. Epic.
3. Tacos Arabes. Made with pita bread and pork. I don't think any Muslim has ever eaten them. Ever.
4. We toured two indigenous communities with Raúl of the Alex and Raúl tour company. That's right. The Raúl. I'll leave it to Sarah to fill in the rest.
-Ezra
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