the legendary german film director werner herzog once said that the world reveals itself to those
who travel by foot you know i found that to be true more and more true the older i get and
does this mask make my ears look really funny like they're sticking out like cauliflower or something
man these masks ah i was i was starting the video with this epic quote from a german
director everything was going so cool and then my ears just had to okay let me try this again
the legendary german film director werner herzog once said that the world reveals itself to those
who traveled by foot and i found that to be true especially when you're traveling in a
huge city like mexico city you might want to visit a lot of different places that are really far
apart the easy thing to do or the natural thing to do is to take an uber or taxi or some fast mode of
transportation from spot a to spot b because when you're a traveler and you have a limited
amount of time you want to preserve as much time as possible but as our friend werner herzog has
already alluded to sometimes the most direct way is not the best way especially if you're trying to
experience new things in a new culture sometimes it's when you take it slow that you start to
notice things that you might have otherwise missed those little details those little differences
between this new city and where you come from which will make the most lasting impression
man isn't the city beautiful you know some of you will already know
this isn't my uh first walk around the block in mexico city
but one thing that always impresses me about this place one thing i'll never get tired of
is if you take it slow and if you look around you'll always find new things to impress you
like look at the architecture in this area this is uh just next to roma neighborhood a lot of
tourists a lot of foreigners like to hang out in la condesa and roma this is an area called juarez
which is close to roma and equally beautiful i would say i mean this place isn't exactly
off the beaten path as you can see there's a place selling cbd oil and there's a yoga studio
across the street so clearly young people know about this neighborhood but i think i'll stop
here for a minute or two and grab a juice there's a spot i like called sikatris cafe
right here in plaza washington just give me a moment to turn my ears into cauliflower again
i just drank a juice with ginger and turmeric a few years ago i probably would have made
fun of someone for ordering that juice now here i am starting my day with it
i guess that's what getting older is you know people change
and the ways i like to travel have changed too you see i think when you first start traveling
you have this instinct to see as much as possible as quickly as possible
kind of like those people on that tour bus which conveniently just drove by i didn't plan it but
that was quite convenient um but yeah buses like that they're literally the prime example
of trying to see as much as possible as quickly as possible and what happens when you take a bus like
that is yes you get to see a lot when people ask you what you did in mexico city you get to say oh
i saw roma i saw candesa i saw the center i went to polenko i got up to see all these different
places and if you're a good photographer maybe you got to snap some cool photos from the bus
but did you actually experience any of those places or did you just turn your whole trip into a
series of photos and then when you get home you'll have the photos but you won't have any memories
other than how bumpy that seat was on the bus
in a sense you will have sacrificed your real life enjoyment of that trip for the illusion
that you enjoyed it you sacrificed something real for the photos but if you just spent your entire
day walking around you might have less photos you might have seen less but you may have had more
impactful moments just because you took it slow and you actually experienced what you experienced
isn't that right zuckerberg ah you don't care i can't believe the zuckerberg like randomly
graffitied on the wall i wonder what that's about i bet nobody on the bus noticed that but when
you're walking around filming yourself you tend to you tend to fall into some random random moments
so what's the mistake that most travelers make when they visit somewhere like mexico city they
try to do too much in too little time and because of that they're not left with cool memories of
discovering interesting new neighborhoods they're mostly left with memories of this being stuck
in traffic trying to navigate their way around this huge city getting from point a to point b
so listen if you're planning a first trip to the big city i'm not telling you
not to go through any touristic things i'm not telling you not to take an uber or if
you want to save a bit of time you don't have to walk everywhere but give yourself some time
just to explore and to live like the locals do and then you're going to start to feel
the pace of the city and you're going to start to see what really makes it special
you know people ask me what they should do in an area like roma it's not about doing
anything it's about living life a bit and experiencing the magic that's all around you
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