Rancho Buganvila to PV

Monday morning we made to a leisurely start to the day, setting off at 9:40 for Puerto Vallarta. Two hours later we passed Manzanillo once again.

The road north was better than we remembered but was still quite narrow. There are many shallow rivers on this part of the coast, the bridges long and narrow, the river "valleys" almost always very beautiful. The bridge decks fequently don't line up exactly with the road surface so there is a bit of a bump at each end of the bridges, some very rough. This is pretty typical and we are quite used to it though Trekker is not at all happy when his house shakes and rattles. Along much of this coast the flat fertile land has been planted with acres and acres of corn and other crops including fruit and nut trees.



We passed right by Barra de Navidad, a pretty little town and San Patricio Melaque, very popular with snowbirds, without stopping. Usually this is a fuel stop but we don't have to stop so often with the diesel. Leaving Melaque the road becomes quite windy again, pretty much all the way to Puerto Vallarta.

We stopped for lunch along the roadside in front of the Biosphere Station, a protected area managed by the Federal Government and the University. We were beginning to feel the heat in the motorhome (89deg F) and realising that we wouldn’t be able to run the air conditioner in the Puerto Vallarta Trailer Park, we started the generator and ran the genset to have the a/c cooling things down a bit as we continued our drive to the PV, where we arrived at 5:30. Our friend Melchor had dropped in there several days before to reserve us a place–good thing too, the place was full.


We found our spot and before long we were all settled in between the palm trees. We couldn't quite get the bedroom slide all the way out for the trees but managed to get it out far enough to be able to open the cupboard doors. The awning on the right side had enough room to come out about half way, but as we were surrounded by trees it idn't really matter. The RV park was build some 25 or 30 years ago and was not designed for today's large and wide rigs. We'll be here for several days at least, visiting friends and doing the laundry.