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Polo and Juanito Friends
As our tour boat moves slowly through the water, paralleling Stone Island, we see mangroves form a wall to our east. We leave the marina and head north past large shrimp boats, tuna ships with miles of net piled on their decks, one of the largest fish...
Jungle Tour Mazatlan Off on an expedition
Back in the day, after school, our tribe would gather around the new black and white television in the family room and watch TV serials. There was Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Little Rascals, Gene Autry, the Three Stooges, and Tarzan. One of the...
Hotel Playa Stage Show/Mazatlan Dance revue
Every night, downstairs, the Hotel Playa offers entertainment. It is sometimes a DJ spinning tunes. Sometimes it is a duo of classical guitars. On certain nights you can hear song smiths warbling out popular melodies. This particular evening we get...
Zona Historico Walking the historical district
Walking streets in the historical district of Mazatlan, before people wake up, photo ops pop like bubbles from a glass of champagne. Inanimate objects are posing and don't require permission to photograph. With people there are always questions of...
Zona Historico/Mazatlan Historical district of Mazatlan
There are two city zones that tourists see most in Mazatlan. There is the Zona Dorado where newer hotels congregate and bars and discos service night crowds. The beaches are here as well as ten taxi drivers to every tourist and street vendors...
Night Dolphins/On the Malecon Sunday night in Mazatlan
On a tip from Pat, at seven thirty this evening, Alan and I pile into a pulmonia and tell the driver - "Dolphina's por favor ..." We are taken, for fifty pesos, to distant communication towers rising into the sky to the south of us. During the daytime...
Marina Norte Cheap Mexican home on the water
There are several marinas in Mazatlan. The northern marina tends towards pleasure while the southern marina gravitates towards work. This Sunday the only event that draws skippers off their boats are NFL playoffs on high def TVs in bars and...
Jack Kerouac in Mazatlan On the road
Back in the 1950's, after WW2, most people headed home to raise families. Men were tired of shooting bullets and women were tired of making them. Instead of killing humanity the focus became re-populating humanity. An era of big bands was...
Marlin Stew/ The Shrimp Bucket Good for hangovers
Down near the radio towers, at the south end of the Malecon, is an eatery called the Shrimp Bucket. It is right on the road and if you stick your arm out from a table closest to the rail that separates you from the road, a car will take your arm off your...
Roofwork Mazatlan Repairing beach palapa
Walking the Malecon, visitors come upon palm branch topped beach shelters that provide protection from the sun and are places to gather. The shelters line a sea wall and their tops look like giant Chinese coolie hats. This morning a crew of workers are...
Old Guys with Bicycles Mar Rosa RV Park, Mazatlan
Our original trip concept was to take RVs to Mexico, stay on the beach a month, drink beer, and check out bikinis. Our original destination was to be San Carlos, Mexico - up the coast north from Mazatlan. There was a RV park already picked out. But...
Gringo Lingo/Zona Dorado On the strip
Hotels and restaurants dot both sides of the street that takes you from the Mazatlan historical center to the marina at the north end of town. If each hotel was represented on a map with a red pin, and each restaurant a blue pin, you would have a long...
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