Category: Nayarit
Hike to the Altavista petroglyphs
11/30/24 We recently started hiking with a group based in Lo de Marcos (three towns up the coast from us). I was super excited about today’s hike, because we were visiting the petroglyphs in Altavista– on my bucket list of Archaeological Sites Close to Home. It’s an hour and a half north of us near… Read more
Dia de los Muertos 2024
Friday November 1 we drove to Puerto Vallarta to view the world’s tallest Catrina. On November 2 we drove to Sayulita for their Day of the Dead celebration. Read more
Rainy season in Mexico
It is incredible how green everything is now. Here in Nayarit, “dry season” still has some green in the landscape. It doesn’t get completely brown, like Guadalajara does. But after it’s rained for a few weeks, the green in Nature’s color TV monitor gets turned up all the way. Read more
The Great Crab Migration
Years ago, I remember driving from Sayulita with my brother and sister-in-law. We often made this 16-minute drive because our mom had a boutique store in Sayulita. During the day we’d help her out, and then drive back to our parents’ house in Higuera Blanca. On this summer day the drive was unusual because there… Read more
New Hope in La Cruz
06/08/24 We decided to spend a few days in the nearby town of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, or “La Cruz” as everyone here calls it. Part of the hope was that once we had a few days of AC, refrigerator, and stable power, our heads would clear enough for us to solve our problems. One… Read more
Day Two
11/11/24 Not counting the day we drove from Austin to Laredo, we did this drive in two days. That now seems hard to believe, but the tiny trailer was not hard to pull at all– even in the rain. We started in Aguascalientes and traveled west, stopping in my old stomping grounds in Guadalajara for… Read more
