| | |  Vallarta Living | September 2009 
Out and About in Puerto Vallarta
 Twila Crawford - PVNN
September 25, 2009
| | A good place to watch the beach, pier and boat scene is at AmapaSunset Restaurant on Playa Los Muertos. For reservations call (322) 222-1694. (photo by Ken Harbour) | |
A singing taxi driver, with violin background, provided happiness for my trip home from the southside. We viewed a wedding party bursting with yellow and lavender colors outside the main church, before we moved on.
On two different occasions, I relaxed with news of friend and restaurant reviewer Gary Beck's recovery... it will be a long one. He hopes to be here in November. I downed chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and corn-on-the-cob. Yes, twice. True comfort food. And time for reflection.
A publication, Directorio de la Salud, is available at the tourism office, or online at VallartaSalud.com. The publication lists doctors and their specialities and lists medical facilities.
Founder and president of Americans for Medicare in Mexico, Paul Crist, will hold a series of town hall meetings in 15 towns and cities in Mexico. He also is a major speaker at Mexico and U.S. conferences.
Well, it is a ways to get a U.S. passport renewed in Nuevo Vallarta, if you live in the Vallarta area. Staff members are immediately welcoming upon arrival. Jacqueline Guerrero de Carley, consular assistant, as so many say, is such a helpful and charming person. U.S. Consular Agent Kelly Trainor oversees an efficient staff. She gets in there right behind the counters and helps visitors.
Some of the projects this Vallarta resident has been working on are with South Africa. I had to use Western Union, something I don't think I've ever done, as a FedEx overnighter. It was an interesting experience. Of course, there were snafus. The phone would ring at 3 am with someone to talk about information. The English/African accent had me asking "what?" most of the time.
A friend and I enjoyed a long summer afternoon at Cuale Paradise restaurant in Paso Ancho. While we ate lunch, we watched the water slip over the large rocks, and children and adults happily frolicked.
A good place to watch the beach, pier and boat scene is at Amapas Sunset Restaurant or on the comfortable chairs and couches in front of the restaurant.
Puerto Vallarta police managed to get confessions about 19 executions from 2006-2009 in various parts of Mexico. They were ordered by the Zeta drug cartel.
Banana Cantina's Debbie Egan and I walked the southside's empty streets of Vallarta one summer evening. With so many restaurants closed for the summer, we went to Burro's Bar on the beach. We enjoyed the Bay breezes and watched the fireworks display in the middle of the Bay that evening. The breezes were so lovely that I walked home on the Malécon. Restaurants and bars on the Malécon were filled with noisy soccer spectators.
Hear that another "sex" club is going to open on the southside, with a Basilio Badillo address or whatever address they may use. No, you do not have to ask what it is about.
Chef Seth Cloutman has a darling personality, along with his culinary skills. His Rosh Hashanah dishes were superb, praised by all there. PV Mirror Managing Editor Allyna Vineberg hosted the dinner.
During an intermission from stuffing ourselves, I talked to a number of persons I hadn't met... something I love. Gail Fuller operates "Tapiz," the gift shop at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, south of town, displaying a beautiful stone necklace at dinner. Her shop and the Gardens reopens September 29. Email: tapizvallarta(at)gmail.com. Architects Jorge A. Aguilera and Kelly Nelson are administrators for La Cima III, along with their other architectural creativeness. Email: lacimathree(at)yahoo.com.
 An award-winning journalist, Twila Crawford lives in Puerto Vallarta, where, in addition to contributing articles to BanderasNews, the PV Mirror and other local publications, she writes Out and About in Puerto Vallarta, an informative column that offers inside information about who, what, why, where and when it's happening around Banderas Bay.
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