Crash land Guanajuato & Palillo de Dientes - 02.28.23
I rolled into Guanajuato City a bit under the weather and I wasn’t in the mood for much… but i pulled myself up by my bootstraps and patrolled the neighborhood, practiced my Spanish with the locals and visited the mummy museum.
**The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833… and later disinterred because a local tax was in place requiring a fee to be paid for "perpetual" burial,** and now displayed for $97-117 pesos per adult. Ummm… you still have to pay taxes after you’re dead?!? That is about horseshit!
Anymoo, a bit morbid… but I paid the extra 20 pesos to see the special exhibit… which I couldn’t quite figure out if it was vampires or a torture exhibit. All I could think was, if I died of boredom waiting for my Global Entry interview… and was mummified in the process… I hope they put me on display sitting on a Moto Guzzi motorcycle… AND have the quintessential toothpick hanging out of my mouth hole.
Which reminds me… my new doc boots were pinching in one spot while I was walking around today. I thought it was just a weird crease from having them stuffed in my backpack. Nope, a toothpick was stuck to my sock... I walked around all day with a toothpick stuck in my shoe. All Effn day! 😬👞☄️
Also, I asked the kid at the tienda if he had [these] in his store (I pointed at my toothpick) and he looked at me like I was from outer space. I'm running low on toothpicks already and it would be a shame to cancel the rest of my trip because I ran out and can’t find them in Latin America.
And on a side note… my old docs look like they came right out of the mummy exhibit. I still wear them for the record.
# Palillo de dientes
#motoguzzitoothpickpoweractivate