Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta a day later.  We tried to post this blog entry last night but the satellites were not cooperating.

03/11/2104

Today we visited our last port of call on this trip, Puerto Vallarta.  Next is three days at sea and then San Francisco and on to home.

The ship arrived in port at 11am and we left the ship shortly after.  Our intention was to walk to town, but once ashore, we found it was four miles, not the three we had been told.  Since the temps were in the 80s, we took a city bus.  The term 'bus' is loosely used here.  They are really ugly, beat up old things whose doors pop open frequently.  We think that they might be privatized, not municipal.  They don't run on any discernible schedule, but often there are several going on the same route one right after another.  They look like armored cars on steroids, stout and high.  They look as if they could ram their way through mountains, making their own tunnels.  But, they are cheap, less than a dollar each way.

Once in town, we just wandered around for a couple of hours, had a beer, watched the guys that twirl around, the Papantia Flyers , as they descent from a tall tower on the beach.  We are going to try to attach a video. 

A little housekeeping here.  The seas have been calm throughout the cruise, no rolling at all.  Very nice.  We also found our favorite server of all our trips.  He was on the same ship in 2012 when we went around Australia and New Zealand.  He remembered our names and what we liked to order.  It is nice to see Felix again.

All of the ports have had a large police/military presence. Lots of help available when we needed traffic stopped to cross intersections.   Some local police ride around on Segway machines.  The military guys have automatic weapons.  Burger King delivers via motorcycles here.

Colleen and John