Hotel Suites De Sol Puerto Vallarta

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

This weekend I finally got round to seeing some live football in Mexico. I'd been meaning to go for ages but in the end this was a game worth waiting for. It was "El Clasico" - the local derby between Guadalajara's two biggest teams, Atlas and Chivas. I went with Isobel and Oswaldo, one of our Mexican friends who had taken us to Lake Chapala a few weeks ago. <br><br>Estadio Jalisco is a really impressive 70,000 capacity ...

... in the next blog post, once I collect all the fantastic picture people took last weekend. <br> Meanwhile, I´m going to share an aspect of Guadalajara that I´m particularly enamoured with: street life. Unlike back home, streets here are more than just a conveyance from one place to another. They house a vibrant informal economy, peddlers of everything from windshield wipers, 30 ...

... crawled across my chest. I instinctively brushed it off me, but I was still half asleep and it was too dark to see what it was. All I knew was that whatever it was had been big enough to wake me from my slumber.<br><br>Yet last night I had forgotten all about this incident and drifted off to sleep as normal - only to be woken once again in the small hours of the morning by something crawling along my back. This time I was quick off the mark and reached for ...

... the painful entrance we get in Australia, but instead I was able to walk easily in. This meant it was not as refreshing, but if we stood where the river hit the ocean we would get cold rushes.<br> Kind of refreshed we waited on the road sticking out our thumbs and were picked up by a ute. The ute already had four or five Mexican&#8217;s sitting in the back but the six of us tourists (all bar me were gringo&#8217;s) still fit. The truck took us up a windy ...

... that I have never seen in any Australian club. <br> We met some Senioritis and before I went back to the hostel they took us to get a 3:00am snack. It was a Mexican version of a 24 hour Maccas, a big, outdoor but fenced in taco restaurant. Even though it was almost fast food, they had valet parking, which was weird. The most exciting thing was the two guards outside the restaurant who held handguns at the ready. <br><br><br>Sunday, 9 August, Day 197<br><br>Guadalajara ...

... important people needed to walk to their limousine. Sylvain and I were sort of shocked by this request, as we are guests of the hotel and with such an enormous task of loading our bikes, it was definitely not reasonable nor polite to ask us to move and we refused. Shortly afterwards, these VIPs arrived and were very interested in what we were doing and about our trip. One of these was Maripepa ...

... it might be fun for the kids. Linda and I hopped out to check it out. Senor Iguana had a private party going on including entertainment by a Mexican clown. If you find American clowns scary be sure to avoid Senor Iguana's offerings. With a bit more looking we found an open-air second floor restaurant overlooking town. We weren't in a touristy part of town which was fine with us. Dinner was pretty good. We ...

... both reeling against bent rods. The crew were excited about the double hookup, and got most of it on video as we worked the fish. I brought mine in and Fernando was able to release him alive. This is a lot more work, and a lot more injury producing an activity that simply clubbing the fish unconcious and dragging it aboard. Fernando still had the marks to prove it when we saw him ...

... nearest bus stop. Again we were fooled by Mexican time. Jose Luis had only completed one of the assigned tasks and we waited around until, with our direction, he completed the remainder. The major suspension work was also quoted on and we made arrangements to return on Saturday. Immediately we noted that the brakes were immensely better now and stopping was less of a chore. With 'Nilla safely back in our possession we drove to the parking lot we had started to call ...