My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
Author: marionvermazen
I am a traveler, hiker, avid reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, Spanish and French language student, knitter and genealogist. I am retired after working for almost 30 years in the Computer Industry. I live in Reno, Nevada with my husband Duke.
This morning we started out by walking to the Museum of Modern Art.
Modern Art MuseumInside the museumDiego Rivera – Velorio o Dia de muertesThe table and its contents are all wood
Next we walked to the Audiorama in Parque d’Espagne. Along the way we went by the Monumento a los Niños Heroes. It honors the young men in the castle of Chapultepec who were killed when the American Army invaded Mexico City.
Monumento a Los Niños Héroes
When we got to the Audiorama it was closed so we took an Uber back to near our hotel and had lunch at a taqueria, El Turix, that only serves Yucatán style pulled pork. At 2:00 there was still a line. Apparently it has been in that location forever. The tacos were good.
El TurixEating our tacos
Tonight we went to see the movie Whiplash with a live band at the National Auditorium.
The National AuditoriumThe auditorium holds almost 10,000 peopleThe music was fantastic.
After the concert we went to dinner at a nearby restaurant,
Today we walked to the Anthropology museum and spent several hours exploring the ground floor exhibits about all the different cultures that inhabited Mexico up until the arrival of the Spanish. The museum is a bit overwhelming. There is so much to see, and so many cultures that I know nothing about. But it is a wonderful place to visit, one of the top museums in the world and I truly enjoyed it.
Xochipilli – Lord of the flowers from the Chaldea cultureThe sun stoneTeothuacan’s Feathered Serpent pyramidMixta Codex ColumbineDescription of the Codices
When he was planning this trip Duke made reservations at some top rated restaurants. Tonight we went to RosaNegra. It was fabulous. The service was attentive. The food was exceptional. And the vibe felt very Mexican. It was fun, energetic and happy!
We are planning to spend eleven nights in Mexico City on this trip. For the first six nights we will be in the Polanco district.
We walked to the Soumaya Museum. It was built by one of the world’s richest men, Carlos Slim. It contains his enormous art collection. We visited the museum the last time we visited Mexico City. I love this art museum. It has works by almost every well known artist and a lot more. It has five floors and is organized roughly by the art eras. And entrance is free!
Museo SoumayaDuke at the entrance thinkingThe entrance has some replicas of statues like Michelangelo’s David, but the work on the far wall is the Doors of Hell by Rodin.The Doors of HellIn the sculpture gallery on the top floor.Who would have thought that phone books would be in a museumWorks by RenoirI’ve never seen funny art done in the 1600s. The top painting is the Barbershop with Monkeys and Cats and the bottom painting is Monkey’s Tavern. They are both by Teniers.
On the walk back to the hotel we stopped for lunch at Maque Cafe.
Lunch at Maque CafeYummy Mole
After our late lunch we went back to the hotel and napped. Duke had bought tickets for a show at a jazz club called Parker and Lennox. We took an Uber to get there. Even though the club was only about three miles away the traffic was so bad that it took an hour for the Uber to get to us and for us to get to the club. We had dinner there and then enjoyed a great show.
Parker and LennoxPart of our dinner at the barThe show in the back room.
Duke and I are at the start of an almost 3 week Mexican adventure. We are starting out in the Polanco area of Mexico City.
We got up at 4:00 this morning to catch a 6:00 flight. We changed planes in Salt Lake City, had an uneventful flight and landed in Mexico City about 6 hours after leaving Reno.
Parking at the airport.
In Mexico City our taxi ride to our hotel from the airport took about an hour. After checking in and getting settled we went for a walk.
Checking in to our hotel the UTOPIC PolancoOut for a walk
We had a fabulous dinner at Agua & Sal, a nearby seafood restaurant.
Agua & SalOur ceviche
I suspect I’ll sleep well tonight! It’s been a long day.
When Duke and I travel I write a blog post every day. It increases my enjoyment of travel to share our travels with friends and family. It also is enormously useful to be able to go back and look at what we did or where we stayed or ate in a particular place.
On this blog I have a list of most of our trips since 2016 with each itinerary. There is a link here and on the menu. After we get home I edit the itinerary to add links to the blog posts for each day of the trip. I just finished adding the links for our last trip.
Deleting Twitter and Moving to BlueSky
When I create a blog post WordPress can automatically create a post on another site. In the past I had the blog set up to automatically create posts on Twitter, when I create a blog post here. But I just deleted Twitter (X) and created an account on BlueSky. So far I really like Blue sky. I read about its growth and advantages here and I’m am very hopeful that Twitter (X) will eventually become irrelevant. I have set up my account so that blog posts automatically get posted to BlueSky. Here is a link to my BlueSky profile. If you are on BlueSky please let me know so I can follow you there.
My BlueSky Profile
Travel Plans
Duke and I are planning our next two trips. (Duke is the one who does most of the planning.) In January we are going to spend about two weeks in Mexico. We have travelled in Mexico a lot! I like Mexico. And of course it helps that Duke is fluent in Spanish and I speak and understand enough to get by. We have done several trips in Mexico over the years. On most of those trips we drove from Reno.
For our Mexico trip in January we will fly to Mexico City, spend about 10 days there and then fly to Puerto Escondido on the west coast and stay there for a week. We have been to both Mexico City and Puerto Escondido before. We were in Puerto Escondido in 2014. Here is a link to my blog posts from that trip. We were In Mexico City in 2011. Here is a link to my blog post about that. If you have any suggestions for things we should do or places we should eat In Mexico City or Puerto Escondido please let me know in the comments or by emailing me.
Boomers Without Borders Update
I started creating videos about our travels and posting them to YouTube in 2019. it has been a really fun learning experience. We named our channel Boomers Without Borders. I am busy editing and posting videos from our last trip. Here is a link to the playlist from that trip. My goal now is to get to 1000 subscribers and we are getting close! As of this morning we now have 890 subscribers and 191 videos! If you haven’t already subscribed please subscribe!!
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