With a 6 am flight out of Nanaimo, Carolyn drove me to the airport at 5am. Quick 15 minute to Vancouver and now an hour and a half wait for my connector. I found the airport lounge and gave it a try for the first time ever (I now have a feee membership with my credit card). Awesome. Nice breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage and a latte. All free. Much better than typical airport pricing.
Flying business class for the first time in my life was an experience. With a table between me and the person next to me, lots of room. Also, with one person serving 14 passengers lots of snacks, drinks are served.. As a total added bonus, as one of the first off the plane, I got ahead of everyone else and cleared immigration and customs in a breeze.
Exiting the Puerto Vallarta airport, normally I would catch the 50c bus, but with all my bags I bartered with the taxis and caught a cab to downtown and the Portonovo Hotel. The Portonovo is a clean, decent hotel with very small, view less rooms, but also inexpensive.
After my journey through the airports, I realized that the shoes I had chosen to bring are just too worn out. nice, soft slip on sandal/slipper like shoes, but the back heel had lost all stiffness and now they just slide off my feet. After checking in, I cruised around a little looking for shoes without much luck. Everything here is sandals, for those uberbeachy types. I’m not beachy.
Stopping in at the Rosita Hotel while walking around, I run in to my friend Doug (who spends 4-5 months a year here) as well as Ole, who I have met here a few times now. Sat around with them and had a couple beer, before heading back towards the hotel. Near the hotel, I had a $2 street quesadilla, walked around a little more, and then called it a night.
Colombia Motorcycle Ride 