I'll post more pictures from the trip soon, but until then please enjoy my latest addition to the "Food And Me" gallery. This one I call Food And Me - Mexico Edition.

Speaking of eating inedible objects, at our hotel in PV there was a macaw who lived in the lobby and whose job it was to greet guests. He only spoke a few words, and mostly made bird noises, kind of like me. goldenmoonbear's dad wanted the bird to sit on his arm, so he held his arm up to him and the bird did indeed jump onto his arm and immediately began eating ( Read more... )

So here we are again, in the internet cafe, on our last full day in Mexico. We spent the morning at Chino's Paradise in Mismaloya. It's a little jungle park with old time swimmin' holes, bridges and a very rickety tree house that I stupidly climbed into ( Read more... )

Will the heron wonders never cease? Nope. Believe it or not, we were lucky enough to see an entire rookery of BOAT BILLED HERONS! We saw this on a boat ride in the mangroves of San Blas, just north of town. Our guide for this trip was Carlos. I was always one to mock tours but I have to admit that we have seen lots of birds that we never would have ( Read more... )

Today we went to the best restaurant in Puerto Vallarta. At least that is what two people who wrote in to the guidebook said, and I think they are right. It's called Planeta Vegetariana and they give you all the food and drinks you want for 55 pesos. That's a little over $5 for you American readers. (or should I say reader) They change the menu ( Read more... )

We just got back from the best bird watching trip of all time. A local guy named Alfredo Herrera was our guide and he took us to the delta of the Bahia De Banderas. It looked so much like my recurring bird dreams that I could not believe it was real. We saw Yellow Crowned Night Herons, White Ibises, Tricolored Herons, Black Vultures, and a bunch of ( Read more... )

I´m in an internet cafe next to the Gigante supermarket in Puerto Vallarta. So far we have seen frigatebirds, grackles, pelicans and herons, and that´s just at the hotel. The majority of our vacation time is spent being hassled by time share hawkers. We did have a little bit of free time to go swimming in the ocean. Tomorrow we have a birdwatching ( Read more... )