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We Know Where Lopez Is
Our most unusual Puerto Vallarta vacation
A bus ride you take in Puerto Vallarta is a sightseeing tour. It may not be the kind of tour that tourists from the States get after being sales-talked into a timeshare presentation with a free city-excursion hook. And it probably won’t be the kind of tour that expatriates take when they venture away from their air-conditioned seaside condos. It’ll be the kind of tour that,….
Getting to “Centro” one morning for a walk on the Malecon is easy. We know all buses go to Centro, and we’ve seen a №3 bus come by on the street outside our vacation apartment every 15 minutes. So Jason and I walk across the street and catch the first bus that arrives. Easy, we say to each other.
After our walk, though, it’s not so easy. We leave the beach and trudge back to where we got off the bus, cross the street to catch it going in the other direction, and then wait for lots longer than 15 minutes. There are buses, but they are going to Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Sheraton, Tepic, or Tunel, and though there are lots of numbers we see no №3.
We stump here and there, and we see some more buses here and there, but no №3. After too many blocks here and even more blocks there, we come across one of the people who stands at a bus stop doing something or other with buses and bookkeeping. In…