Mountains and Miles

With our bellies full of tacos and pastries from Mexico City (and maybe a few extra pastries in our backpacks…) we jumped on a ~3.5 hour bus to head to Santiago de Querétaro (more commonly known as Querétaro). After our bus adventure in Mexico City, we decided to ride in style with ETN, a double decker luxury-style bus for about $20 each. To our surprise, we even received a drink and snack prior to boarding. We literally put our feet up and enjoyed the scenery on our way to our next city in Mexico.

We left Japan on November 30th around 5:00 p.m. and landed in Mexico City about 20 hours later, but it was still November 30th and sometime between 9-10:00 p.m. This was my longest day ever, both literally and figuratively. I thought I’d sleep like a baby considering we had a business class flight, but even laying completely flat in an airplane seat I was still wide awake all “night.” We took an Uber to our beautiful Hampton Inn & Suites hotel, which didn’t feel like a hotel at all. We enjoyed four free nights here located in the very walkable Centro Historico area. We were pretty jetlagged and already trying to adjust to the altitude so we crashed right away.

We blasted through Japan traveling from Osaka to Takayama to Tokyo. While there is a nearly unlimited list of things to do and sights to see in Japan, here is what we did in the 9 days we had.