What’s to Eat
Coconuts and Beach/Stone Island Taking a tour break
Our tour boat docks, by a grouping of mangroves,and we disembark into a thatched eating area where a local family will serve us lunch in a few hours. While they prepare our tour's meal, we are taken for a look at this island's coconut farm, watch Polo...
Polo and Juanito Friends
As our tour boat moves slowly through the water, paralleling Stone Island, we see mangroves form a wall to our east. We leave the marina and head north past large shrimp boats, tuna ships with miles of net piled on their decks, one of the largest fish...
Zona Historico Walking the historical district
Walking streets in the historical district of Mazatlan, before people wake up, photo ops pop like bubbles from a glass of champagne. Inanimate objects are posing and don't require permission to photograph. With people there are always questions of...
Zona Historico/Mazatlan Historical district of Mazatlan
There are two city zones that tourists see most in Mazatlan. There is the Zona Dorado where newer hotels congregate and bars and discos service night crowds. The beaches are here as well as ten taxi drivers to every tourist and street vendors...
Marina Norte Cheap Mexican home on the water
There are several marinas in Mazatlan. The northern marina tends towards pleasure while the southern marina gravitates towards work. This Sunday the only event that draws skippers off their boats are NFL playoffs on high def TVs in bars and...
Marlin Stew/ The Shrimp Bucket Good for hangovers
Down near the radio towers, at the south end of the Malecon, is an eatery called the Shrimp Bucket. It is right on the road and if you stick your arm out from a table closest to the rail that separates you from the road, a car will take your arm off your...
Gringo Lingo/Zona Dorado On the strip
Hotels and restaurants dot both sides of the street that takes you from the Mazatlan historical center to the marina at the north end of town. If each hotel was represented on a map with a red pin, and each restaurant a blue pin, you would have a long...
Roy Rogers- Dale Evans/Chuckwagon Restaurant Cowboy culture
Surprise, Arizona didn't start where it is today. Back in the day there wasn't much here but tumbleweeds, cactus, rugged mountains, ranches, farms, a few dirt roads and lots of dreams. The Happy Trails Resort was once nothing but a set of plans for...
Pompano Beach/Florida Working class beach
Fort Lauderdale is to Pompano Beach as Cadillac is to Ford. Fort Lauderdale has location, money, reputation, retirees. The boulevards are a little bigger, the canals a little deeper, the yachts a little bigger, the bling a little brighter, the...
Chocolate Mousse night snacks
According to Ruth, we are in a Mob Bar. Everyone in the place is well dressed and it is questionable whether I should be let inside with Levis, a nice dress shirt, hiking shoes and uncombed hair. South Florida is a place with comfortable weather this...
Story Hour In the neighborhood /Hotel Aranjuez/ San Jose, Costa Rica
Towards the end of any visit, many travelers sort through high points, low points, things that didn't work out, things that went well. If you keep a journal, write a blog, take photos, or go with someone, you have a way to remember what you saw,did,...
Eating for Eatings Sake Breakfast Buffet, Hotel Aranjuez
One of the draws of this San Jose, Costa Rica hotel is a serve yourself buffet breakfast. It is not only a buffet breakfast with choices, but you get famous Costa Rican coffee, deep, dark, flavorful, in a big cup. The breakfast runs from seven to nine...
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