Mexico Again, But Beginning in Puerto Vallarta

What an interesting place it is, very different than any other Latin American place we have been in. First of all, no one speaks spanish, english is the language of choice and secondly, we are younger than the average age. And my is it touristy but guess what, we feel like tourists and sort of like it.

As we were arriving late, we did book a hotel in the center of the old city before we arrived. We asked for a ground floor room as not to have to do stairs and that we got. But there was only one very narrow bed and that just about filled the room and the ceiling in the bathroom was so low, all business happening there had to be done seated.

The next morning I was up early, checking out other hotels and there were many with space. But when I got back to our hotel, we complained a bit to the manager and he moved us up one floor to a very nice, much larger room with two beds so we are happy here.

The first three photos are of said hotel, the Posada Roger. It is really very nice, with wireless internet in most places. Also a very nice court yard with much visiting with other guests.

We started our journey in Seattle to visit our son and his family, who live there, and he gave us a new to us, very large and showy camera. When we carry it around our neck, people we meet and chat with think we are from either the cruise ship or a 5 star resort. Needless to say, our hotel is not 5 star.

Just a street scene in PV with a group of workmen making it look nice.

A lovely stained glass window near the central park.

Arches and ocean, seen from the central park.

There are many statues and sculptures along the malacon, this being one of the many.

No scaffolding here. But he was getting the job done and he only had to move about 3 more steps to get to the top.

This is the malacon, a km long ocean front sidewalk, very new and very beautiful and busy.

Along one side of the malacon is the ocean, on the other are many very touristy shops, all after your business.

The next 5 photos show some of the shops and some of the items that are for sale.

This shop was of particular interest to us as it is all done with tiny beads.

The part of Puerto Vallarta that we are staying in is very flat but not too far to the east there are mountains, with many condos and apartments. If you look close you can see the stairs going up the mountain, way up the mountain. We would not like that very much.

Earlier in the week we did a day trip to Bucerias, a small beach town 30 km up the coast. We like it, found a place to stay so tomorrow we are off to Bucerias for a week and we will plan some more of our journey from there. We have to be back in Tlaquepaque by the 1st of March as we have an apartment rented there for the month of March but until then, the wind will take us.