Posts from ‘December, 2009’

I called an old boyhood friend, regaling him about a place in the jungle called Puerto Vallarta. The first paved road there from Tepic had just been completed. Using advanced calculus, with gas costing 15 cents a gallon and sleeping on the beach costing nothing, I estimated we could do a two-week trip from San [...]

The Albuquerque International Sunport won’t be so international come next week. Its only flight across the border to Mexico is coming to an end. Less than one year of service to and from Chihuahua, Mexico, and Aeromexico is hitting turbulence. Soon, the airline will cancel its three day a week route which never gained much [...]

Thousands of Americans are increasingly traveling to resort towns like Puerto Vallarta, in Mexico, not for vacation, but for the cheap health care. In many cases, reports Ray Suarez, for care they couldn’t afford in the United States. via pbs.org Posted via web from Puerto Vallarta Mexico

The sun and beach destinations of the Riviera Nayarit are at 100% and is expected to leave a season of more than 120 million pesos, said the state secretary of Tourism, Mario Basulto Mares. The state official explained that the data is estimated by the statistical system resulting Datatur of the federal Secretariat of Tourism [...]

via usatoday.com You might not find the Riviera Nayarit on a map, because the name was coined just three years ago to describe the 190-mile coastline north of Puerto Vallarta. But development began a decade earlier, and this is now one of the hottest vacation home destinations in Mexico. Puerto Vallarta sits on the Bay [...]

Although DST will remain the same in the rest of the country, the Chamber of Deputies approved a change in schedule seasonal northern border areas to match, starting next year, the southern states, to not affect daily activities in that region of Mexico.The Senate still must approve this measure and the DST in the northern [...]

via justluxe.com Luxury Destinations: Puerto Vallarta offers visitors a broad spectrum of authentic Mexican experiences, with a wide range of spectacular landscapes, fantastic food (and tequila, of course), and the chance to see some of the rarest animals on land and at sea. As one of the most responsible, ecotourism locations in the world, doing [...]

Brooklyn’s beer taps (The Denver Post | CYRUS MCCRIMMON) Farley, 52, is one of Denver’s best-known artists, his name being synonymous with action paintings of sports heroes. He grew up in Denver — except for a stint during junior high school in India, where his parents were teachers and missionaries. He started painting at 4, [...]

Asociación de Mujeres Empresarias Grows in Banderas Bay, which will open a new chapter in the Riviera Nayarit, informed the president for national and global vice president of the association, Rosa Elena Lozano Vázquez. He noted that the number of members varies, each day add up to more females, but nationally are about 4 thousand [...]

The state director of Civil Protection and Fire, Roberto Basulto said the climate changes cause worldwide effects and Nayarit is not free, so actions are to be taken for the rain and falling temperatures. The official added that for several days it has been raining and the weather affects some parts of the state, so [...]