Off of the handgun topic…but staying on mobile carriers…..
Im back in Puerto Vallarta. As soon as the plane hits the ground here, and I take the phone out of airplane mode, this pops up. Kates carrier is Verizon,…she says “ Mine doesn’t do that”….
I say, “I know.”
We keep coming back to this place. I live in Birmingham….Getting in the car, and driving to any beach destination in the Florida panhandle is 5 hours. ( A plane ride to here is 5 hours). A gulf facing 2/2 condo is usually in the 300-500 a night range there. Once you’re there, your diversion options other than the freakin water itself are limited to theme park things like a water slide, banana boat, parasail or golf…none of which i could give a RRBH about. Of course, dining options are all over the place, and range from very expensive, to wings-n-beer. But because it is a destination for thousands, the places are always packed, freakin noisy and, even in the higher end category….hit or miss for quality of food, and service.
In November, it gets cold enough for the season to end there, and places close, the thousands go back to where they came from, and your choices for food/drink/diversion go right along with them.
But then there’s Puerto Vallarta.
It’ll get to almost 90 today, but as soon as the sun goes down, the proximity to the water drops that temp down into the low 70’s. At this time of year though the humidity is very high, just like Alabama in mid August. In the spring months through may, temps are the same, but the humidity goes way down.
This is a big place…Depending on where you stay, everything is walkable though. Last night when we got here, we walked to one of the pool bars on the property where they were having half priced well drinks during the ” happy hour”.
That made my Gin and Tonic 3 bucks…….or 65 pesos however you wanna calculate it.
After two of those we walked to one of the corner grocery stores for “stuff”, went into a coffee shop and had them grind some fresh coffee, then walked to the restaurant we chose to end the evening. There are three of us here,….We each had a 5 course meal which included a fillet, and desert ( all of which were freakin outstanding) I drank Makers, Kate and her friend that also comes here regularly drank wine, and the Bill came to 200 bucks….for all three of us.
The 2/2 Kate and I are staying in is 200 a night, (2/2’s are always bigger than the 1/1’s) the Airfare was 1000. While that puts it as potentially more expensive than the domestic beach trip alternative the cost of food offsets everything else.
Theres all the same stupid sht to do that you can do in PC Fla., but there’s a tropical jungle back behind this place, ATV adventures, Ziplines that you gotta ride a freakin mule to get to the summit to ride down, and all the while, weird ass birds landing in the big assed tree that almost touches your deck..
You really owe it to yourselves to check this place out.
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