Saturday, January 3, 2015

Puerto Vallarta

The central bus station at Puerto Vallarta being our departure point for Colima on Tuesday, we chose to go there today to purchase our tickets. First though, we happened to meet a Vancouver man who runs a travel agency here and he mentioned that he thought Colima was currently inadvisable as a destination because Colima's volcano was more active than usual.


We delayed going for our bus tickets until we received an email response from Peter, the brother we know who lives there. He wrote back saying that there are no official warnings and things are reasonably stable despite the volcano being a little more active than usual. I did learn on the Web that an eruption about six weeks ago sent up a column of ash 5 kilometers high into the air.

So we took a taxi to the Puerto Vallarta bus station and bought our tickets.

In other news, while walking along a side street in Bucerias, Carol accidentally bumped her head on the hanging end nodule of a banana tree branch. I may not be describing it right but here's a photo so you can see what is, to us, an unfamiliar type of street hazard.


And last but not least, you know those kind of photos that people sometimes take of doors? Not ordinary doors, but the kind that have a bit of unusual charm? You know, they may be old doors, unique in design, or overgrown with foliage, or some other thing? And so you get a photo of just a door, usually straight on? And it's supposed to be full of character and look endearingly quaint, but really it's just a picture of a door? This is one of those ...


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