It's taken days and days to get these pictures loaded. Mexican wifi is slow--agonizingly slow, and spotty. You can get on and browse, but uploading takes hours and frustrating hours and can only be done early in the morning or waaaay late at night. 

Old Vallarta is the busiest, most lively part of town with more shops, bars and restaurants per square inch than anywhere else. It's a fun place to roam but really? There's an awful lot of gringos.It's for those who want to escape northern winters and find a beach with just a touch--a bare hint-- of old Mexico. Mexico has many faces, yes, and this is a shiny clean one. There's nothing wrong with that if that's what you want. It's safe, ha...

After delighting us with our sidewalk entrance into Alamos, our sand "road" into Las Glorias, and the Road from Hell into Tres Amigos, tall Bob and Donna next took us on a squat rowboat/ferry ride over into old Mazatlan. Monday was Dia de Reyes--Day of Kings, when Mexican children receive gifts --Christmas all over again-- and everyone eats kings' bread--a kind of sweet bread decorated with colorful fruits. We saw the breads everywhere--in the markets and be...

...when cops with machine guns stop to change your tire. It started out with a sunrise walk on the beach and ended with a sunset walk on another beach 200 miles south.   It was in between where we had another of our adventures with police and their machine guns. Heading out onto the tollway from our beachside campground, we heard a thud....thud....intermittent but bothering.  Turns out we had a flat tire--inside dual. We pulled over to the side--thankfully t...