Eric & Autumn's World Roll Up: Guadalajara

Autumn had a temporary assignment for the last 3 weeks in Guadalajara, so I went to visit her over a long weekend. Guadalajara is the second largest city in Mexico, but it kind of felt like a small town compared to Mexico City. I had an interesting time getting to Guadalajara. I somehow confused my departure time and left work with only ONE HOUR to get to the airport, through security, and on the flight. Traffic was horrible as usual, but I somehow made it exactly as they started boarding. I arrived at the airport in Guadalajara with cash in hand for a cab to her house, but was short by 15 pesos! I always forget how expensive cabs are outside of Mexico City, so I had to make a deal with the cab company to pay when we got to Autumn's place. Luckily she had money to pay! By the time we got settled in, it was dark, so we decided to order pizza. This is always an adventure what with the over the phone Spanish. We asked the guard for a recommendation, and he told us that the pizza was horrible and we wouldn't like it, but gave us the number anyway. We decided to take his recommendation and ordered from a tostada place instead, and they were delicious paired with walnut and pinenut paletas (handmade popsicles) from La Michoacana!

The next day, we spent the morning getting to know Autumn's temporary neighborhood...finding Starbucks for internet, grocery store for supplies, etc. then ventured out to the Centro Historico where we toured the churches, squares and just wandered around. We were going to get tickets for the Tequila Train, but the ticket office wasn't open on the weekend, so we had to settle for pizza and beer back at the house.