24k Actifit steps and some Mexican exploration

Yesterday was an amazing day in terms of excercise. It was a Sunday, so I don't mind not having done anything money related or relationship building with friends, family or girlfriend. I spent all day walking, literally.

I could have reached like 40k steps but for reasons unknown the Actifit app for Android closes itself after around 5 hours of working in the back of the phone and I lost around 3 hours worth of walking. This is good because it means I didn't check my phone between around 4 pm to 7 pm (I don't have the exact time the app closed itself but according to the step counter graphic it was around 3-4 pm).

I passed several rivers on my 18 kilometer walk, or perhaps the same one in different spots. Check out how the Mexican rivers are - I can't ask you to picture the smell, I'm not an asshole.

These are election and voting times in Mexico and one of the many peculiar ways (to avoid saying weird and useless ways) of making proselytism is to drive around in a car caravan with a huge speaker telling anyone who hearts them to go vote for their candidate. Of course, they carry Mexico flags because they are fighting for Mexico. Heh.

Oh and forget about all the traffic jams this causes, and don't even think about if they even care about it. The hundreds - oh yeah, they were hundreds - of cars driving with no direction were something I couldn't stop myself from sharing with you.

I passed by a bus station and didn't give it a second thought, but then I realized maybe you guys have no idea how a bus station in Mexico looks like so what the hell.

I was tempted to take one of them that actually would have dropped me a few blocks from my house - I was tired already but I managed to stay strong despite the fact that it was the longest walk I've taken in around 6 months, my feet are killing me today - but I didn't.

Mexico is a Catholic country, and despite everything I think about religion, I believe that it's mostly a positive thing to have. The faith is so strong here that you find Virgin Guadalupe (our equivalent of Virgin Mary) altars everywhere, here's one example.

You can also find crosses in the highways and big streets. They belong to those who died driving a car - most likely drunk or due to drunk driving people - and people drop flowers there to honor the dead until they forget about them or move on.

Covid really hit hard in Mexico. We didn't have small business bailouts so many if not most small stores had to close down to never open again. Most streets in the city I live have many abandoned stores that look like this, sad and tired of seeing this every time I go out, both because we surrendered to covid alarmists and also to see the stores and the families that suffered from this.

Thankfully people have already and almost completely woken up and are back to their Sunday activities. I was happy to see guys playing ball in the park like nothing else was happening in the outside world, just like they should've done months ago.

In the end, I managed to stay outside until it was almost dark. This is a church on top of a mountain that is actually a pyramid that never got fully digged, but it's still beautiful as hell.

24k steps and some Exploration. Not fucking bad at all.