After dropping my friend Bobby off at the Villahermosa airport I headed towards the Northern border of Mexico which required that I drive West for most of the first day. From Palenque the roads had become as fast and easy to drive as any that I had seen in Mexico. With few exceptions [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Poolio
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With 24 hours to get Bobby to his flight out of Villahermosa we started the drive in that direction. North of Palenque the land flattens out and we learned that driving is easy and fast there. Able to make such good time we had the pleasure of needing to make the 2 or [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2008 by Poolio
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For jungles and ruins we departed San Cristobal. Though unsure of how the next leg of our trip would turn out we knew from our previous experiences in Mexico that we would be presented with constantly changing vistas and wide variety. These expectations were met again and again as we first climbed into pine [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Poolio
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Soon after entering the state of Chiapas we headed inland and began the long climb to San Cristobal De La Casas. Just after starting our climb we entered the scenic and wild Reserva De La Biosphera La Sepultura where Bobby swam in the wake of a tall waterfall and I accidentally ripped a toenail [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Poolio
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Escondido to Salina Cruz
The day after my departure from Acapulco my friend Bobby was flying in to join me in Puerto Escondido. Eager to prepare for Bobby’s arrival and to leave Acapulco I made the drive from Acapulco to Escondido in one day. It looked like an easy drive on the map, at [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Poolio
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South of Zihuatanejo, accross the coast of Guerrero I drove towards Acapulco. Unlike in Michoacan, Highway 200 follows a more inland route across the milder topography of Guerrero. This allowed for fast travel and I made it from Zihuatanejo to Acapulco in less than four hours. That doesn’t include my stop at [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Poolio
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My first stop after heading south into the state of Guerrero was the large and nice city of Zihuatanejo. Surrounding a large bay Zihuatanejo covers the hillsides and focuses itself in a dense beach-side downtown area that is full of shops, restaurants and tourists. Many of the tourists were gringos and came on the [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Poolio
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Mike just sent a few photos from our week in Michoacan. In these photos you will find the answer to the important question:
How many gringos does it take to fix Mike’s fridge?
Thanks for the photos Mike,
Jonathan
There is a good restaurant with a great view above where we camped in La Manzanillera. We picked [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Poolio
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The Michoacan coast via highway 200 was our playground this past week. After spending a few days in Melaque stocking up and getting through the worst of a flu-like sickness I met Mike and Marianne Saturday morning. We drove south through the large port-city of Manzanillo and then made a few scenic and [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Poolio
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We have left La Manzanilla without expectations of finding a better beach spot in Mexico. Staying in one place for so long probably taught me much more about Mexico than visiting other places would have and La Manzanilla is a great place to spend a winter month.
With sadness from saying goodbye I headed to [...]
Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Poolio
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