These are the last photos of our road-trip through Mexico. From Oaxaca we drove over the mountains to Puerto Angel => Puerto Escondido => Acapulco => Ixtapa => Guadalajara => Monterrey => Ft. Worth => Palo Duro Canyon => Vail Valley. Lots seen on the way back, these are some of the highlights of my favorite sights/moments.
Fishing boat on the shore of Puerto Angel... the "Mar Del Fundo" occurred two days before we arrived which caused massive waves to bring the ocean, and more importantly sand, on to the shore and shut down much of the restaurants, hotels, and other beach areas.
The view from our hotel in Puerto Angel. Notice the arm of the excavator in the bottom center of the photo moving sand from inside the hotel restaurant back into the ocean.
On top of some rocks in Puerto Escondido. The waves were as big there as anywhere I've ever seen.
We went to a turtle sanctuary in Mazunte. The small beach towns were some of our favorite places!
One of our favorite parts of the Oaxaca coast was going through the mangrove swamp at La Ventanilla. We saw crocodiles, iguanas (such as this one), and lots of birds on our boat tour.
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Acapulco
Acapulco was hot and crowded. It is basically the Miami of Mexico.
Our favorite hotel was definitely the Azul Ixtapa Grand Hotel. Amazing food, salt water pools, clean and luxurious rooms and balconies. It felt nice to spoil ourselves for a few nights.
Infinity Pool at the Azul Ixtapa Grand
Sunset in Ixtapa
While snorkeling Lise dropped the GoPro and had a fight with some coral. Fortunately, there was an ER nurse from Montana who just happened to be on that beach that got her cleaned up and sterilized. She was one of the only native-English speakers we met on our trip and in the right place at the right time. The situation definitely could have been worse but makes for good story now.
Loved the architecture and charm of Guadalajara.
This was sort of a bucket list getting to go to a Mexican League soccer game. What made it even better was that it was between Chivas and Atlas in the playoffs for the first time in 40 years, Guadalajara's rival teams.
Kelly suggested we check on Karne Garibaldi. They took "fast food" to a whole new level! Terrifically seasoned meat, bacon, beans, and guacamole... I could just do a post about the food in Mexico it was all that good everywhere we went, especially in Oaxaca.
Mountains on our way to Monterrey. North Central Mexico had an Arizona feel to it.
Texas skies
Lise's first time to Six Flags or any major amusement park for that matter. She screamed like a 12 year old girl on every ride and it was absolutely hysterical/awesome.
Palo Duro Canyon for our last night.
I know that we will likely never do another lonnnnggg road-trip like this, or at least not until we are old and retired. It truly was one of my favorite trips with my wife. Life is so different having someone to adventure around with. A few weeks after getting back from Mexico we went on an Alaskan cruise with my family. I'll post those photos sometime soon.
Muchas Gracias,
Bryan
