You can tell by the decreasing frequency that the trip has reached that point where getting home is as important as the trip itself.
Puerta Vallarta was a pretty good port. I can’t say I did much there aside from baby-sitting little kids while family and friends did the zipline. Its Mexico, its the jungle and it’s lots of neat geology that would be a trip unto itself. The city of Puerta Vallarta was the first real city (by real I mean tall buildings, wide streets and American corporate logos everywhere. Also everywhere was the Mexican armed forces. It says something about the USA that people with machine guns don’t greet you as you get off a ship or a plane. Oh, they’re there.. they’re just not "in your face".
The zipline was neat, if you are into that. I am most certainly not. The jungle was cool… the mountain stream that cut the valley through some igneous (or possibly metamorphic) rock (I’ve been in WV too long.. too many sedimentary rocks there.) and kept the stream very cold. The kids (ages 5 and younger) found out I was a geologist (guy who likes to look at rocks) so they would hand me one to keep every minute or so. About ten minutes later my hands, pockets and feet were covered in pebbles. (They have small hands). Note to self: little kids don’t really care about biotite. They’re just humoring me.
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- crazy ziplines
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- puerta rocks at sea
