Los pormenores de un viaje pt. 2 (VISA EDITION)

You know you're doing the exotic thing the minute you actually have to get shots, and deal with 3 visas in order to enter a country. To this moment, I have the choice of applying for a transit visa to the EAU, which thankfully just opened their embassy in mexico. while in addition applying for both an Indian and Pakistani visa. The indian mostly because I don't feel like going to Islamabad to apply for a visa specially atfer the whole hooplus with Osama. On the other hand Islamabad would mean more chances of seeing hot marines so...



So I have to go to the Pakistani one, because they don't have a webpage, so there's no way to obtain the relevant paperworks. Neither do the Emirates. Of course, life being life, those embassy are not close by.



My beloved older brother suggest I screw that and travel mex-tij-pudong-lahore. I remind him that chinese visa applications are equally tedious.It's truly the sign of a well-seasoned traveler when you realize that the USA actually has quite a decent visa system (I'm looking at you CANADA).



I think our next grand strategy in Foreign Affaires should be convincing everycountry that we only like to illegally migrate to the NAFTA zone... or convincing those two that the market is pure and strong and totally wants a truly free zone whereas not only products but people can move without frontiers, you know, just so I can stop bitching about VISA procedures.

Ojalá (o los pormenores de un viaje)

The first question on my job interview was the following "Do you have any security concern about coming to Pakistan?". I wanted to laugh, because this being an skype interview, it was done at 6 am in Culiacan, Sinaloa, while my interloper was in Lahore at 18 pm. Of course I said no, Culiacan has taught me many things, the principal being of course that you shouldn't trust media that much when in comes to war/internal stryfe. Or maybe it has taught me that life is mundane even in the times of bullets.



This of course was before the whole ding dong Osama is dead thing, which altered my resolve even when I tried to get most of my news from Al Jazeera. My interviewer assured me that it was far more important to consider the weather, hot and humid, than the whole 'terrorist' thing. I assured her that Culiacan prepared me for a pakistani summer -except without monsoons, ours is the rain of desert, quite squallid and quite a joyous-. Even to this day, they keep mentioning the heat. "It's quite intense" they say, and I wonder why everyone things their heat is special, they don't even fry eggs in the hood of their cars! (I asked. Really). Heat is serious bussiness in Sinaloa.



Anyway, the Security concern is always there, mostly because it is the first thing people who I tell about my incoming trip ask about. And my argument is always "I don't think it's that more dangerous than mexico". So I did an experiment, I googleed Pakistan and looked at all the images: the first one is the flag, followed by gruesome murder, bearded men with ak-47 -different from the mustached men with ak-47 I'm familiar with-, women in burkas protesting the USA, the usual. And I thought: surely Mexico must have a similar result what with all our narcoviolence and 'quasi failed' state cred. But no: just your usual jalapeños and flags everywhere. So: VICTORY FOR FELIPE BECAUSE AT LEAST OUR INTERNATIONAL IMAGE IS BETTER THAN PAKISTAN according to google at least.



cheers

Hace mucho tiempo, en una epoca vintage en que no existia Farmville...

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