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The Spirit of Old Vallarta Lives on in this “Accidental” International Resort

John Huston

“When I first came here, almost 30 years ago, Vallarta was a fishing village of some 2000 souls. There was one road to the outside world – and it was impassable during the rainy season.” So wrote American film director John Huston about his first encounter with the sleepy, isolated fishing village he was destined […]

“Old” Puerto Vallarta Lives on at Three Small Villages

“Old” Puerto Vallarta Lives on at Three Small Villages

When Puerto Vallarta was “discovered” in the 1960s by film director John Houston and used as a location for a Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor movie, it was a remote, almost inaccessible Mexican fishing village with a palm-lined beach, surrounded by rocky cliffs and wild jungle mountain. There was a dirt airstrip and only one road in […]

Riding Trains and Drinking Tequila in….Tequila!

Riding Trains and Drinking Tequila in….Tequila!

If you drank eight different shots of tequila a day, it would still take a 100 days to work your way through every variety of tequila available in the Mexican state of Jalisco. They take tequila very seriously here in central Mexico. With more than 800 different brands of tequila to explore, one of the […]

Floating Through Mexico City Drinking Cerveza

Floating Through Mexico City Drinking Cerveza

Our barge had barely pushed away from shore before we were surrounded by other boats, all painted in equally bright colors. On one side, an old woman glided her skiff next to ours to offer roasted corn on a stick, the blackened kernels coated with lime and salt. On the other side, a floating bar […]