On January 27, 2011 we left Arizona for San Carlos, Mexico. We crossed the border in Nogales,AZ. and Nogales, Sonora. In 5 hours we were on the beach in San Carlos, Mexico for the weekend. Unfortunately, the weather was not great beach weather. There were cool temps and a lot of wind. The place we rented was very inexpensive because they were working on the pool area. However, we still had a wonderful time listening to live music and relaxing. Our next stop is the longest drive of our trip 10 hours of which 2 were our mistake because we missed the place to get our car sticker to allow us to bring our car into Mexico and had to back track. We arrived in Mazatlan around 7:30 in the evening. Here we stayed at the Holiday Inn right across the street from a Cuban Restaurant. Mazatlan is a nice place for a two day stop over. The main reason we stop in Mazatlan is because it is at least 5 to 6 hours away from anything.
Heading South:
Our favorite beach town Ricon de Guayabitos did not have a place for us to stay so we headed to San Pancho (San Francisco) which was about 20 minutes down the road. We rented a little casita in the back of a main house for one week. The place consisted of one main house and three casitas with an outdoor kitchen. We were very lucky because for 5 of the 7 days we were alone. We had a fresh fish store about a block away and had some wonderful meals. San Pancho is a very small town were the night life pretty much shuts down at 10:00 pm. After one week we were ready to move father south.
Our favorite little beach town of La Manzanilla is about 3 1/2 hours down the coast. Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass the city of Puerto Vallarta. Not only was there traffic but they were also working on a two lane road the circled around the city. Oh well it is what it is. We had a beautiful drive down the coast arriving in La Manzanilla in the late afternoon. Since we were only going to be here for two weeks we decided to save some money and stay in a small hotel instead of a vacation rental. The hotel Tonala was clean, inexpensive and centrally located.
Our two weeks consisted of visiting with friends, walking the beach in the mornings, traveling around the area and just simply resting. Unfortunately, we had rain for two days. It is amazing how boring the beach can be when there is rain and you are in a little hotel. We made the best of it though. We had a couple of musicians staying at the hotel who entertained us. We did a lot of reading and watching movies on the computer.
After La Manzanilla we head about 40 minutes south to spend 6 nights with friends in the city of Manzanillo. They rented a condo right on the beach and we had our own bedroom. We had a wonderful time rediscovering the city we had been to two years ago. We had a very relaxing time with our new friends Kip and Marjan. After 6 days we headed back to San Miguel. The 8 hour plus drive was uneventful and after 5 months we finally arrived back home.
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