Puerto Vallarta!

The road trip from Guadalajara (5,000 ft) to Puerto Vallarta (sea level) was so beautiful. Going through the mountains is always inspiring, but this time it really captured my heart. We made a bit of a detour to Sayulita - a little surfing town we loved so much from 2 years ago. We got to have some lovely beach time there. And revisit some of our favorite places (this is the town where we snuck into a hotel to watch the inauguration of Obama).

But the big highlight for me was being back in Puerto Vallarta - this is tied for first place BEST of the whole road trip. We actually stopped at the RV park where we lived for 6 weeks in 2009. We visited with our friends Sharon and Stefan and then, checked into a sweet hotel right around the corner from the RV park.

We spent the BEST evening downtown - we started by finding the perfect little beach bar (our feet in the sand!) and having the best tequila (take THAT Tequila!) while we watched dolphins/whales, sunset, moon above us and danced to that great reggae beat. We had dinner at our favorite restaurant in the city (Magna! Magna!) and had a sweet time wandering the streets - checking out the street artists, musicians and listening to all the music.

I had forgotten how openly gay Puerto Vallarta was and it was sweet seeing those guys checking out my man! The city was so ..... alive! It was a shocking comparison to Mazatlan that is suffering so much from the lack of tourists that it looks like a ghost town.

We loved our two days in Puerto Vallarta. It was fun and we can't wait to get back there. We actually started to think about spending maybe a couple of weeks there next time. It was really a great vacation from our vacation.