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The Highs and Lows of Traveling Off the Beaten Path

Published October 4, 2022

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A family trip to Mexico has a different impression on everyone

In August, I visited Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico with my wife, Zoraida, and my two sons, Naeem (1) and Marcel (7). We didn’t know much about the place, but the flight required fewer flyer miles than any other tropical location on the American Airlines “Award Map.” Usually, we find our way out of the tourist milieu by day three, this time it took five. Hotel concierges weren’t much help, so I did what I always do; I chatted with the best historians and guides in the world: cab drivers. 

We dropped our bags as soon as we got to the hotel, and took a cab to the beach. On the way, the driver explained that Puerto Vallarta was once a sleepy fishing village. It became a tourist destination after Richard Burton’s The Night of the Iguana was filmed in nearby Mismaloya in 1963. Paparazzi often shot him and Elizabeth Taylor dining at the beach we were on our way to — Los Muertos.

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