Getting ready to end the Mexico Menaderings on Tuesday  and head back to Minnesota.  We will have been gone 45 days.  Staying in private homes through the airbnb website has been an interesting experience.  For the most part we have stayed with folks who left the USA to try another life in Mexico.  Some have only been in Mexico six years or so but others have been living here for a good portion of their lives.  They were all great in helping us plan our days.  You never know what you are going to get with an airbnb stay so be prepared and open minded.  Other than the unfortunate blockade experience on the bus ride to Chiapas we have not run into any difficult experiences.   We never felt in any kind of danger although we have certainly stayed out of areas with State Department warnings.  Mexico is rich in history, culture and art and we have enjoyed wandering through museums, archeological sites and churches.  We've enjoyed bus trips out to the countryside where you can still see horses plowing the fields. It's good to see folks protesting Monsanto here too.  I'll miss the abundant fruit choices here.  I won't miss the rough sidewalks.  We were lucky neither of us took a tumble.  I rarely took off my tennis shoes.  Mexican women love their high high heels.  I don't know how they do it.  I wish I had a couple more days at the beach.  I'll miss having somebody doing my laundry for me even though one place gave my tan shorts to someone else and it was days before I got them back.  People work really hard here and their days are long.  It's not good to see so many children working.  I'm glad to see alternative transportation services in Mexico City and it generally was less smoggy than I was expecting.  I'll be thankful though to get back to a place with water that I can drink right out of the tap.  Ok, going out for one more beer then it's time to pack!