The Travel Notes

We're working our means through the American Southwest. This week, it's Yuma equally nosotros run our means over into Arizona. Yuma is at the convergence of California, Arizona, too Mexico... Watch the Video! In the old days, cowboys would come upwardly hither looking for a skillful saloon, a bath, too mayhap somebody to pass the black with.  Today, we’re looking for a total breakfast, a large room with a comfortable bed, too a skillful wifi connection. Near the western cease of town, reminders of the old days sit down across the state highway from each other. The Territorial Prison on a bluff looking over the Colorado River held the area's ne'er produce wells inside its thick, stone walls.  Those who were to a greater extent than upstanding…or mayhap simply lucky at non beingness caught…would guide maintain a mutual frigidity beer land playing cards across the means at Lute's Casino . For this trip, our hotel would hold out the Springhil...

Here is an one-time study on 1 of our favorite beach destinations, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  Yes, the report's been hither earlier but we've added a whole bunch of novel pictures.  Plus something else... Our kickoff trip to Puerto Vallarta was inwards 1991. We liked it so much, nosotros pretty much came every yr during the 90's, dorsum when Tim was petty plenty to deport as well as teach over all those stairs. On our 2nd trip inwards 1992, I borrowed my dad's VHS camcorder. Recently, I dug out the one-time VHS tape, digitized it, as well as edited downward xc minutes worth of video downward to 10 minutes. 23 years ago, when Tim was but a wee lad of 5, nosotros took this video downward inwards Puerto Vallarta. I apologize for the pitiful audio, but it makes a neat fourth dimension capsule of a fourth dimension we'd go downward to this beautiful destination. Watch the Video! Enjoy, as well as so yous tin read the one-time report, below,...

Seemed similar a dull go twelvemonth for us but nosotros nevertheless managed to brand it quite a few trips together with fifty-fifty stepped out of the dry soil a tiny bit. We've right away hitting xl (43 for me) out of the 50 states together with made it dorsum to the Caribbean, too, without stepping out of the country. Look below to encounter our action for the twelvemonth together with click on the links to take in our reports for each item... We started amongst a trip south of the edge into Ensenada, Mexico , which has been the recipient of a lot of bad press together with cruise cancellations lately due to drug cartel activity, to encounter if it was actually that bad or dangerous. Conclusion?  Not fifty-fifty remotely...can't hold back to become back. Cocktail Hour suggestion: Margarita Madness . Barely averting a traveler's nightmare...getting the incorrect appointment downwards inwards your hotel booking...we managed to squeak out a parent's getaway...