Showing posts with label vallarta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vallarta. Show all posts
12/26/13
12/12/13
9/23/13
Oasis Hostel revisited
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Previously I wrote about the managerial change at Oasis Hostel and how that change wasn't for the better. Specifically: son takes over the family business from the father and, with that, came a stark attitudinal adjustment -- and it took us regular guests by surprise.
Well. I last revisited Oasis Hostel in June and it seems the chip that was on sonny boy's shoulder to "prove himself" is there no more. I'd been through there once before, between now and then, and we had since gotten back on the 'good foot' albeit more polite than friendly, which is nothing to sneeze at. Politeness is a scarce attribute amongst modern folk.
But with my stay this summer I found nothing but good vibes. I had booked a bed for only a couple of nights as I was finally leaving Pto Vallarta for Guadalajara and glad that it was a good good-bye, if you know what a I mean. As a result of that stay at Oasis I learned about The Blue Pepper Hostel and confirmed it as my next destination.
Read about the Blue Pepper in next week's post.
Previously I wrote about the managerial change at Oasis Hostel and how that change wasn't for the better. Specifically: son takes over the family business from the father and, with that, came a stark attitudinal adjustment -- and it took us regular guests by surprise.
Well. I last revisited Oasis Hostel in June and it seems the chip that was on sonny boy's shoulder to "prove himself" is there no more. I'd been through there once before, between now and then, and we had since gotten back on the 'good foot' albeit more polite than friendly, which is nothing to sneeze at. Politeness is a scarce attribute amongst modern folk.
But with my stay this summer I found nothing but good vibes. I had booked a bed for only a couple of nights as I was finally leaving Pto Vallarta for Guadalajara and glad that it was a good good-bye, if you know what a I mean. As a result of that stay at Oasis I learned about The Blue Pepper Hostel and confirmed it as my next destination.
Read about the Blue Pepper in next week's post.
6/19/13
See the animal in the picture?
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No doubt you are used to seeing trees inhabited by birds and squirrels and maybe even monkeys, but in Puerto Vallarta iguanas are common fauna. So signature are they to the area, the scary-looking, slithering reptiles are prominently named in arguably the most famous movie of the coastal city: John Houston's Night of the Iguana, starring Richard Burton and Eva Gardner.
No doubt you are used to seeing trees inhabited by birds and squirrels and maybe even monkeys, but in Puerto Vallarta iguanas are common fauna. So signature are they to the area, the scary-looking, slithering reptiles are prominently named in arguably the most famous movie of the coastal city: John Houston's Night of the Iguana, starring Richard Burton and Eva Gardner.
Can you spot it?
This is in a tree in the
park by the Rio Cuale,not
the mountainous jungles
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