Monday, July 9, 2007

El D.F.!


Saturday, June 30th. Arrived in DF! The Mexican toll roads were just as good as everyone had described, with the added surprise of grazing livestock along the freeway medians and a lot of rain. As the car climbed up to Mexico City, the highway widened and the traffic got a little wilder. Soon enough, we were stuck in a Saturday afternoon traffic jam. We'd made it!

Mexico City is "el d.f." , the distrito federal. I think it is the second most populous city. There was a NYTimes story reporting it coming in at over 18 million, quite a bit behind Tokyo's 28M. Wow. (http://news.aol.com/story/_a/un-predicts-urban-population-explosion/20070629210909990001)

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