Out Here in Mexico. Chapter 2: Arrival. by risa
Arrival
by LK
We finally rolled into Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco (the home of mariachi music, and tequilla for better or worse) to haggle with the local marina about our boat storage fees for our other boats. We arranged a Panga (the typical name for the ubiquitous Mexican styled all purpose 20 footish motorboat, usually complete with an old t-shirt covering the 80 horsepower tiller controlled outboard) to tow our boats back North to Paradise Village resort, just across the border back into Nayarit.
It took us about 3 days to get the rigs upright and the boats ready to sail. This was a sketchy process involving a homemade gin pole.
The good news was that the staff housing at the resort was not ready yet so they had to put me up in a junior suite in the resort. Sweet.
The resort is gorgeous and silly and full of oversized Canadians and Americans. We´ve got the best slips in the house on A dock where the seabreeze makes life wonderful after 10 am daily.
After working for about 2 weeks straight to get this thing on its feet, my boss flew back to San Francisco and gave me 7 days off.
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