Adventures in Gastronomy

The last few days in Mexico were rather subdued…at least for me. After the doctor told me to avoid the sun for the rest of the trip, my options were limited (and I was too prickly and itchy to want to do much anyway). On Friday I took the doctor’s advice and did nothing but lounge about the air-conditioned room. That night, Randy and Sandy went to dinner at some mountain top restaurant where Randy took the most magnificent sunset photo I may have ever seen:

On Saturday I defied doctor’s orders and went outside. In the morning, Randy and I kayaked on ther resort’s river (not the lazy river “pool” but more of a real river that connects actual ponds…and even has crocodiles. Then I sat poolside (in the shade, of course). I did manage to stand in the sun long enough to photograph them as they rode the lazy river in inner-tubes:

That night – our last night – we picked up food at a local restaurant and returned to the resort to eat it. Here is the final sunset photo of the trip – taken from our balcony (not as spectacular as the one above, but still pleasant):

On Sunday, we lounged (shade, of course) by the pool before heading to the airport to return home…and then reality set in. The storms that hit the midwest caused incredible delays and cancellations. At one point we were told that our connecting flight was canceled (from Chicago to Boston) and that the only other available flight to exit Puerto Vallarta would have been Tuesday afternoon!!! Fortunately, we were able to leave Mexico only an hour late. And even more fortunate, our flight from Chicago to Boston was delayed by an additional two hours allowing us to actually catch that flight and get home. Unfortunately, that also meant that I didn’t get home/to bed until nearly 4AM on Monday morning. Stupidly, I even returned to work on Monday – but didn’t blog.

Alas, here are the few remaining photos from the trip. It’s good to be home…and even good to see snow (believe it or not). That said, I’d still go back in a heartbeat!

This is Playa Los Muertos:

And this is Bucerias…note the unpaved roads. This is the main part of town, too! This is like a mini-artist colony located on the northern half of Banderas Bay. It’s predicted it will eventually become resort-like in the coming decades. I hope not.

Yep – this is totally posed (by Randy, I might add). But any other pose would have put us in too much shadow.

Dinner at Sandrina’s, in Bucerias. They apparently make killer cranberry margheritas. I only had a sip since I wasn’t supposed to drink alcohol…but Randy and Sandy loved theirs…ALL of theirs, I might add.

What’s a blog posting without a little porn? Here’s a nekkid Randy on our balcony (each balcony came with mini individual pools overlooking the ocean). I think he looks damn hot here, I must say (he looked even hotter in others but I couldn’t post those here).

This is the open-air flea market in Puerto Vallarta.

Finally, one last “nature” shot of the resort.

February 27th, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: snarl

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