Adventure 2000,
A Journey To Mexico
Leaving Guadalajara by airplane, you’re allowed a certain perspective, a certain overview, that’s unavailable from the ground.  The panorama is distinct, metaphorical.  Because this is essentially desert country, where urban infrastructures ends… water pipes, electricity, gas lines… the city ends.  From the window of the American Airlines 727, we could see with perfect clarity the dichotomy that, in many ways, defines Mexico: the cosmopolitan bustle of concrete modernity set against the dusty spread of sand and cactus, climbing into the high slopes of the Sierra Madres.  Old and new, blood and steel, tradition and progress.
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