Santiago de Querétaro 2022 : 2022-02-12 : Switch to Canario room

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Travel
Type Name Service Provider Origin Destination Cost Notes Actions
Other Airport to BnB $0.00 Bus ($3) then Taxi ($6)
Taxi ($15)
Area around bus station is not walkable
Activity
Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Kms To Date Total Notes Actions
Sight See Queretaro Aqueduct Queretaro has an impressive 19th-century aqueduct, most of which is held up by huge arches (Los Arcos). The aqueduct runs right past our place, although not the arch-ey part. Brent and I took a walk today along Los Arcos. It's really really cool. $0.00
Accommodation
Type Name Service Provider Confirmation Location Cost Notes Actions
Bed and Breakfast La Encantada Air BnB Santiago de Querétaro $607.92 Located in the oldest neighborhood of the historic center and next to the Temple of the Cross, emblematic site of Queretaro's history, as well as the viewpoint and famous arches, plazas, bars, and restaurants.

The CANARIAN room is located within "La Encantada “, a 17th-century house in El Barrio más antigua del Centro Histórico, a 5-minute walk from Los Arcos. Nearby you will find bars, restaurants, markets, gyms, shopping and sports malls, history and culture.


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We have to switch from Gallo room to Canario room in La Encantada today. Our original trip plans had us arriving today, but things changed and we ended up getting here a day earlier. I'm super grateful that our host had another room in her property that was available so we don't have far to go to make the switch..... buuuuuuuuuut... we have three hours in between rooms. We need to leave Gallo at 11AM and we can't check in to Canario until 2PM. I had a look at the forecast today, and there is only one day in the forecast where we're supposed to get rain... of course that's today. And there's only a three-hour timespan where we're supposed to get rain through the day... of course that's from 11AM to 2PM. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG.
Even though I have my laptop along to work, we also brought along the new Surface, partly for Brent to use and partly to confirm it will work for posting tp DAMDetails when we don't have my laptop along, like when we go to Europe in the fall. I used my trusty old Surface all the wat from the 2015 tour until France in 2019 when it became impossible to use. I bought the 'new' (to me) Surface after France but then the Covid came and put a stop to my travels.

Using the old Surface was hard for putting photos onto DAM because DAM won't take photos larger than 500MB and the Surface had no software that would reduce a photo's file size. So my workaround was to upload photos to FB then download them from there but now FB often gives you a file larger than 500MB. Anyway the new Surface has Paint on it which can reduce a photo file size easily so experiment concluded, experiment successful
One thing I really like about being here is being treated like a person instead of like a mark. I get really tired of everyone we see putting on the hard sell trying to get us to buy whatever they're flogging, whether it's a bracelet or a condo when we're in a tourist spot.
The rain during our period of homelessness turned out to be a non-event. Yay! We got into the Canario Room, which is where we'll stay for the rest of our time here. I got a makeshift "office" set up. The place that I think will serve me best is actually the shelf in the closet. Good thing I'm flexible... minded, anyway.


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