The problem with an extended period of travel is that you cannot buy all the presents and souvenirs that you might do if you are only on a fortnight´s holiday. I have already seen beautifully intricate Mayan and Aztec wood carvings, colourfully painted skulls and plates and lucha libre masks that I would have loved to have bought if it was not for the fact my rucksack is already full and I certainly don´t want it any heavier.
Today one of the Yucatan sellers at Chichen Itza showed me progressively smaller and smaller ítems when I told him I was on a long journey with a rucksack that was already too heavy. When I told another seller that it was the peso (weight) and not pesos (Mexican money) that was the reason I could not buy anything from him, he ingeniously suggested that I just gave him the money but didn´t actually take anything away from his stall, and that way my rucksack would not suffer.
The same street seller had already asked me how much I earned back in London, and then told me he earned $10 a day if he was lucky. I explained that London was a much more expensive place t olive, and we listened to each other´s complaints about the long hours that we worked. When I told him that the quality of life was a lot better in Mexico than in the UK, and the people generally happier with life from what I had seen, I was slightly surprised that he immediately agreed with me, and I realised that nota ll Mexicans are trying to smuggle themselves across the border to the north t olive the capitalistic, American dream.
Whilst on the subject of dreaming, here are the presents that I might have bought back for you if I didn´t have to consider the weight of my rucksack.
Today one of the Yucatan sellers at Chichen Itza showed me progressively smaller and smaller ítems when I told him I was on a long journey with a rucksack that was already too heavy. When I told another seller that it was the peso (weight) and not pesos (Mexican money) that was the reason I could not buy anything from him, he ingeniously suggested that I just gave him the money but didn´t actually take anything away from his stall, and that way my rucksack would not suffer.
The same street seller had already asked me how much I earned back in London, and then told me he earned $10 a day if he was lucky. I explained that London was a much more expensive place t olive, and we listened to each other´s complaints about the long hours that we worked. When I told him that the quality of life was a lot better in Mexico than in the UK, and the people generally happier with life from what I had seen, I was slightly surprised that he immediately agreed with me, and I realised that nota ll Mexicans are trying to smuggle themselves across the border to the north t olive the capitalistic, American dream.
Whilst on the subject of dreaming, here are the presents that I might have bought back for you if I didn´t have to consider the weight of my rucksack.
