The Gratuitous Travel Chunks

You look at this picture quickly and you think you're in Italy, but you're not. It's Guanajuato, Mexico.

Aeromexico has inaugurated non stop flights from SPIA (Saint Plotniko International Aerodrome) to Mexico City. If you book before Feb. 5, flights are only $295 roundtrip including taxes, and you can continue on to a dozen Mexican cities for free if you like, including all the big ones, except the two Plot and Duck would like to return to, Oaxaca and Puebla.

But Puebla is only an hour and a half by bus from Mexico City. Oaxaca -- the Plotniks took that bus the last time they were there and Plotnik isn't going to do that again for awhile. Too many mountains in the way.

And one of the included free cities is Leon, which is in West-Central Mexico and is near Guanajuato, one of Mexico's magic and most romantic cities, that Plottie hasn't seen for more than forty years. He doesn't remember it nearly as built up as in the above photo, but that was also true for Oaxaca and it was still memorable, if larger, when they went in 2007. Plane fare in 2007 was double what it is during this sale.

This all sounds terrific, except for the little problem of recession, economic stagnation, tight money and adios bye bye to chunks of savings. Plot has not looked very deeply into the holes where those chunks used to be but he is pretty sure those particular chunks may have been the Gratuitous Travel chunks.

Also, Plottie won't permit himself to plan one vacation until he's on the way home from the next, so this is all just idle talk. Still, how about Mexico City, Leon and/or Guanajuato for Plottie's birthday? Queretaro, Guadalajara, how about Tula?



All this after the World Series in Stiletto City?

As Kurt Vonnegut said: "See the cat? See the cradle?"