Day 28: Today, while hanging out in Mexico City, I decided to walk from the hostel to the National Anthropological Museum, which I'd visited when I was 17 and is internationally renowned. The girl working at the hostel reception told me it was a 20 minute walk, but it ended up being over an hour each way. I wasn't bothered though, as the weather was nice and I enjoyed the exercise.

Some pics are above -- the ape-ish thing is Lucy, that 3.5 million year old human ancestor they found. The depiction of her in the museum was quite weird to look at -- it was just so... half human, half ape! I also filmed a short clip of the Aztec sun stone -- see it here. To be honest I'm not much of a museum person -- seeing all those objects out of their natural environment -- I just can't relate very well. I like it much more when they build sets. (They did have a few nice ones there.)

I spent some time talking with a young British couple at the hostel -- the guy was asking me if there was food other than tacos -- I laughed to myself thinking of the scene in "Brokeback Mountain" where Heath Ledger's character complains about the beans... "It's a little too early in your trip to be complaining about tacos!"