Vallarta Tribune - Issue 1158 June 13 - 19 , 2019

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The Grill Kings BBQ Festival June 15-16

Sea Turtles return to Puerto Vallarta

Financial requirements for residency visas

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ALL-INCLUSIVE NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE FOR VALLARTA AND RIVIERA NAYARIT

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by Paul Glickman

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Welcome to Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit

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t the Vallarta Tribune we want you to have the best experience possible while you explore Puerto Vallarta, the Bay of Banderas and Riviera Nayarit. Here are some helpful tips for traveling.

TIME ZONE: The entire state of Jalisco and the southern part Nayarit are on Central time – if you’re heading further north than Lo de Marcos, Nayarit, remember the time change so you don’t miss your flight.

BUSES: A system of urban buses can bring you from El Tuito in the south to San Pancho in the north and all the spots in between.

Fares vary according to distances travelled, but the base fare is 10 pesos. If you’re going further than San Pancho, head to the main bus terminal to catch a ‘Pacifico’ bus.

TAXIS: There are set fares within defined zones of town. Do not enter a taxi without agreeing on the price with the driver. Make a note of the taxi number in case you leave something behind.

Drivers typically do not carry change.

UBER: New in 2017 to Puerto Vallarta, Uber is still experiencing some growing pains particularly in the state of Nayarit. Uber is cheaper than a taxi usually.

GETTING AROUND: In many places such as Centro Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta there are paths for bikes and pedestrians. Please be respectful of these designations.

MONEY EXCHANGE: The most hassle-free way to exchange money is to use your debit card in the ATM to withdraw pesos.

Exchange houses offer higher rates and banks are remiss to change dollars to pesos if you don’t hold an account with them.

Best to use ATM’s that are affiliated with a reputable bank located in well lit secure areas.

TIPPING: In general you should tip 10-20% in restaurants and bars. Taxi or Uber drivers – 10-20 pesos. The person who bags your groceries or helps load your car – 10-20 pesos. Don’t forget to tip

your maid, bell boy, masseuse, the band, the entertainment on your tour. And by all means, tip more if you want, wages are extremely low in Mexico.

DRINKING WATER: While Puerto Vallarta’s water has been awarded a certification of purity for the past two decades, the quality of the water tested at the source varies greatly from what comes out of the tap at the other end. Don’t wreck your holiday – buy bottle water.

EXPORTING PETS: Falling in love with the street dog outside your hotel is easy to do and it’s also easy to bring them home with you. The process is inexpensive and only takes a day or two. You only need a certificate of health from a local vet and check with your airline for additional requirements.

COMMON SENSE: Just as you wouldn’t walk around your hometown drunk and belligerent, it is not acceptable to do that here.

While Mexico is a tolerant culture, politeness is paramont. Don’t pee in the streets. Don’t flash your money or expensive gadgets. Pay attention to your surroundings.

Know where you are going. Pay your bills (and don’t forget to tip).

And have fun!

DRINKING AND DRIVING: First off – just don’t. The consequences are not worth it. Taxis or Ubers are cheap and plentiful.

Fines are very expensive. You can go to jail and your vehicle impounded. There are many checkstops on the weekends, and you will be asked to take a breathalizer test if they suspect you have been drinking.

LEGAL SYSTEM: Not knowing the law is not a valid excuse in Mexico, or anywhere. If you find yourself caught in a legal situation be aware that often guilt is presumed until your innocence can be proven. This is a very difficult lesson to learn if you are visiting from the United States or Canada. Immediately contact your consulate for assistance.

Director Noemi Zamora noemi.zamora@cps.media Editor Lic. Madeline Milne mmilne@Vallartatribune.com Sales Team editor@vallartatribune.com Designer Cynthia Estela Andrade Gutiérrez cysandra@gmail.com Web Manager Ana Espinosa

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CALLING IN MEXICO Calling phones in Mexico can be tricky. There are different codes you need to use depending if you are calling landlines or cellular phones and if they are local or long distance.

LONG-DISTANCE CALLS FROM WITHIN MEXICO For national long-distance calls (within Mexico) the code is 01 plus the area code and phone number. For international long-distance calls, first dial 00, then the country code (U.S. and Canada country code is 1), so you would dial 00 + 1 + area code + 7 digit number.

CALLING CELL PHONES (FROM A LAND LINE) If you are calling from a landline within the area code of the Mexican cell phone number dial 044, the 10 digit number. Outside of the area code (but still within Mexico) dial 045 and then the 10 digit phone number. Cell phone to cell phone only requires the 10 digit number.

CALLING TOLL-FREE NUMBERS Some toll free numbers work from Mexico to the US and Canada, but many do not. Those that do work are often not toll-free. You need to dial a different prefix. To call the following toll free prefixes, dial as follows: 800 numbers Dial 001-880-then the number 866 numbers Dial 001-883-then the number 877 numbers Dial 001-882-then the number 888 numbers Dial 001-881-then the number

Emergencies: 911 Red Cross: 065 FIRE DEPARTMENT: 322.223.9476 AMBULANCE: 322.222.1533

Ahoy Cruisers!

IMMIGRATION: 322.224.7719

CONSULATES American Consulate 24 hrs 01-332-268-2100 Canadian Consulate 322.293.0098 322.293.0099 24 hrs: 1.800.706.2900

CONSUMER PROTECTION: 01.800.468.8722 TOURISM OFFICES Jalisco: 322.221.2676 Nayarit: 322.297.1006

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In the month of June, July and August Puerto Vallarta & Riviera Nayarit welcomes 41,600 passengers! Bienvenido!

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Sunny and dry in Vancouver

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ola from warm and sunny Vancouver, BC. I escaped the looming rains and made my way to Vancouver late last week. I had rescued a puppy off the streets and found her a home here in Vancouver so taking advantage of the lull in the season, I thought I’d bring her to her new family and get a chance to catch up with my own.

This weekend is the Humming Bird Festival on June 16 at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens. They have different activities planned for the day, most of them included in the cost of admission. Check out their Facebook page for more details.

The numbers for first quarter are starting to come in and it looks like Vallarta received more visitors, both at the airport and the marina, over 2018 and a general increase through

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U the last few years. I’ve heard quite a bit of grumbling about the line-ups at the airport, so I suppose we’ve had this information anecdotally for a while. But it is nothing compared to the cluster*uck I encountered in San Francisco. Why does it have to be so difficult to travel through USA? Thank you again to Paul Glickman for the use of his photos on the cover. If you didn’t get a chance to read his article last week you can find it online at vallartatribune.com and you can also find our updated Daypass Guide with about 50 daypass listings, as well as all the articles, back issues of

the newspaper and our Best of Banderas Bay guide. We are in the final stages of releasing a new website that will include even more great information. Stay tuned.

Rains are coming, so please help the bay by picking up any plastic, styrofoam or other trash along the streets and waterways before it can be washed into the rivers and ocean.

There are plenty of community organized clean-ups along beaches and the river banks. If you want to help a good place to start is at Limpia Tu Barrio PV Facebook group.

Safe travels, Madeline

nless procedures have changed, lining up to go through customs at the PVR airport is a mess; but it can be improved! It’s not just long lines to go through customs, but the length of the existing four lines vary, as well and then when one gets up to the front of one’s line, one is directed to just several of all of the workstations, depending on one’s line! (And some people also jump from line to line.) There are 3-4 entrances from the arrival gates to this very large room where these lines occur, (and one of the entrances leads to a “straight shot” line without any zig-zagging!)

Not knowing who in the PVR government to write to, I am writing to you to suggest the following solution: (a) have one

long (OK very long) zig-zag line that everyone is directed to upon entering this large room from one›s arrival gate; (b) have waist high solid «barrier walls» on both sides of the zig-zag «pathways» of this long line to keep people In the line; (c) have two airport staff at the front of the line directing passengers to the «next open» workstation, of all the workstations.

This would create an equal experience as people would be slowly moving to the front, instead of the seemingly endless standing still in this stuffy room. I am sad that the most depressing experience I have when visiting wonderful PVR occurs when I go through customs at the airport!

Please improve the airport›s customs process!

Thank you.

Sincerely, Richard Johnson Madison WI

Meet at the City Tourism Office Independencia #123 Col. Centro

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BMW Opens $1 Billion Plant in Mexico

German automaker BMW AG officially opened last week a $1 billion plant in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi

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hereas concrete was being poured over vegetation just a few months ago for construction of a huge new airport outside Mexico City, the cancelation of that project has changed the destiny of a site now slated to become a gigantic ecological park.

The decision by then-President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to scrap the partly built $13 billion New International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM) was a controversial move and one that triggered the launch of a project aimed, among other things, at boosting the social development of the most deprived areas of the Valley of Mexico.

In an interview, the project’s architect, Iñaki Echeverria, said he was enthusiastic about the task the president had given him.

“He spoke to me about beauty, and it’s unheard of for a politician to talk about that,” he said of a project that is to be completed in 2024 but may open to the public much sooner while still in the development stage.

The challenge of restoring this space is daunting. The site

stretches for 16 kilometers (10 miles) north to south and covers an area of 12,300 hectares (47.5 square miles), two times the size of the island of Manhattan in New York City or nearly equivalent to 2,000 soccer stadiums the size of Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca.

The park project will mean a tripling of the proportion of green areas per inhabitant in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico, which has an estimated population of more than 20 million.

That proportion will rise from three square meters per inhabitant to nine.

The virtually peerless site dwarfs the Chapultepec Forest, an urban park in Mexico City that is one of the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere yet 20 times smaller than the Texcoco eco-park.

Due to the vastness of this space, formerly a lake that surrounded the Aztec island city of Tenochtitlan, it has had to be divided into four separate juridical areas. A series of actions will be carried out at that immense site that steer it toward a more sustainable future, the architect said.

“We’re going to work with productive landscapes. We’re going to recover a spirulina (cynobacteria used in the production of food concentrates) farm that once existed. We’re going to work on local agriculture ... and do certain specific reforestation work,” Echeverria said.

A series of solar panels also will be installed to harvest clean energy.

But some obstacles will need to be overcome, such as “the site’s accessibility and certainly the pre-existing works in the area,” Echeverria said.

The site where the park will be located is a zone of “great deprivation,” Echeverria said, adding that talks have already been held with local residents to ensure they reap the benefits of this project in terms of greater “work and education.”

He said the park “is a way of starting a conversation about the eastern portion of the Valley of Mexico” and could serve as part of a political and social agenda of great significance for that zone and the entire country.

“If this goes well, everyone will start making parks,” Echeverria said.

Lastly, the shift to a park project marks a victory for Mexican environmentalists, who had warned that construction of the new airport would destroy a fragile ecosystem.

Biologist Patricia Escalante told EFE that the Texcoco area is home to between 70,000 and 350,000 aquatic birds and also serves as habitat for large numbers of migratory birds.

Echeverria, for his part, said that the bulk of the ecological park would be a natural reserve and that flora and fauna will be the biggest beneficiaries.

he new plant in San Luis Potosi is an important pillar of the BMW Group’s global production strategy. We aim to achieve a balance in our production and sales in the different world regions. We want to strengthen our footprint in important and growing markets,” Oliver Zipse, member of the board of management of BMW AG responsible for production, said in a statement.

The plant is opening at a time when Mexico is facing the threat of possible tariffs from the United States, the country’s No. 1 trading partner.

“Plant San Luis Potosi will significantly boost our regional production flexibility in the Americas. From here, we are delivering our locally produced BMW 3 Series Sedan to customers worldwide,” Zipse said.

The plant in San Luis Potosi, the capital of the like-named state, is the German automaker’s first in Mexico.

“Mexico has a key geographical

position, situated between North and South America, the Atlantic and the Pacific,” Zipse said.

The plant has a vocational training center in which new employees and trainees will be taught BMW’s latest production processes and introduced to the automaker’s technology.

“We have a strong supplier base we can build on in Mexico, having sourced high-quality, technologically sophisticated and innovative products from here for more than 10 years. Every BMW Group vehicle today already contains at least one part from one of our 220 Mexican suppliers. Our new plant will benefit from short supply routes and the high level of flexibility this gives our supply chain,” Wendt said.

BMW said its purchases in Mexico totaled $2.5 billion last year.

Most of Mexico’s auto exports, the country’s No. 1 source of foreign exchange, are bound for the United States.

Condé Nast Nominates Vallarta as ‘Best City’

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ach year since 1987, readers of the prestigious Condé Nast Traveler magazine vote for their favorite destinations, as well as hotels, resorts, beaches, cruises, airlines and more, highlighting the best of each category that guides travelers in the world.

Puerto Vallarta is once again nominated in the Best City category. As well as hotels and resorts located within Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit.

The coveted Readers’ Choice Award is a seal of approval for the travel industry from the world’s most discriminating travelers,

everyone is encouraged to vote until June 30, 2019 in the survey at cntraveler.com and help Puerto Vallarta secure its well-deserved place at the top of Condé Nast›s 2019 list of the world›s best cities.

The results will be in the print and online edition in the month of November.

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New Mexico City – PVR flights Announced

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eromar, a Mexico-based airline will open a direct flight from Mexico City to Puerto Vallarta this week on June 13, highlighting the fact the vallarts continues to grow and attract new visitors.

The CEO of Aeromar, Danilo Correa, said, “Aeromar is proud to offer a new route that connects one of the most beautiful destinations on the Pacific Ocean - Puerto Vallarta - with Mexico City.”

The new route, with four flights a week on 72-passenger airplanes will offer their customers a discount of 15% off the base rate. In anti-

cipation of higher demand during the summer vacation period, a Sunday flight will be added in the months of July and August, increasing frequency to five times a week.

“The objective of this new route,” said Correa, “is to strengthen the connectivity from Mexico City to the best beaches in the country and to offer customers who want to enjoy one of the most emblematic regions of Mexico a better travel option.”

To learn more about Aeromar’s Mexico City - Puerto Vallarta flights, visit aeromar.com.mx.

Vallarta sees an increase of foreign arrivals in Q1

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ver 597,000 foreign passengers in the first quarter of 2019 arrived at the Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, making the terminal the third busiest in the country for foreign passengers.

The number of foreign visitors arriving to Puerto Vallarta has increased steadily over the recent years and is 2.6% higher during

the same period in the previous year. Mexico City and Cancun, as reported by the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) hold the first and second place respectively.

Puerto Vallarta has also seen an increase in visitors who arrive in the marina port.

First quarter 2019 there were more than 150,000 passengers arriving by cruiseship, an increase of 23% year over year.

Get your BBQ on this weekend!

The Grill Kings June 15 & 16 Rio Cuale, Cultural Center The first grill festival in Puerto Vallarta is coming this weekend on Isla Cuale at the Cultural Center and it´s a great opportunity to try over than 20 different juicy and tasty dishes like grilled steaks, chicken wings, ribs, pizza, burgers, seafood and much more presented by different chefs and restaurants from around our city including “Bonito Kitchen”, “La Lulu” “Las Adelitas”, “Casa Cupula” and eight more.

Craft beer from local breweries, great cocktails made of mezcal, raiciila or tequila and wine will be part of the event creating the perfect paring, plus live music shows during all weekend long! So come hungry to try the best grilled food and get ready to ride the mechanical bull and shows your cowboy skills!

Join us and don’t miss this great chance to eat all your favorite grilled foods and celebrate Father’s day this Saturday and Sunday June 15 & 16 at the Instituto Vallartense de Cultura from 2:00pm until 10:00pm. The entrance will be free and you´ll find different prices on each stand starting from $25 to $150 pesos.

Find us on Facebook for more information as GrillKingsPV

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From Here Marcia Blondin

marciavallarta@gmail.com

All Art Was Contemporary

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uper good news for Friends of Rodolfo!

Vallarta’s amazing blind tenor has been studying and practicing both voice and keyboards. I was astonished to hear him ace Stevie Wonder; his voice was almost identical.

Then, we watched as Jean-Guy Comeau – Rodolfo’s voice and piano coach – helped him get settled at the piano and he sang AND played “What a Wonderful World” in English! He dedicated a sweet song to Skip Everett, the founder, if you will, of our informal group, Friends of Rodolfo. For all of you who have enjoyed the bolero’s and traditional Mexican songs that Rodolfo has gifted us at venues like Coco Tropical and Meño’s Place, be prepared to be amazed at the changes this coming season. I will be keeping tabs on him this summer and will let you know where you can hear him besides walking on the Malecon carrying around his large, heavy speaker.

Please give generously if you see him. It’s quite alright to touch his shoulder when he is finished singing a song, introduce yourself

and fill his tip jar, please. And, by all means, help him practice his English…that’s the next big hurdle on his agenda!

The OPC gallery on Juarez was packed last week for their first fundraiser and to celebrate their 5th anniversary of bringing cutting-edge art to Vallarta. It was a pleasure to become a member; if you can help more substantially, please do; the Oficina de Proyectos Culturales wants/ needs to continue the extensive programs that they offer free to our community. At least, drop in at 598 Calle Juarez and buy an annual membership and have a look at the latest offering on migration called “Promised Lands.”

One photo particularly unnerved me: dozens of Mexican Federal Police in riot gear, clearly on a frontier somewhere – none of them looking at the camera. They were just doing their jobs, but their faces are full of woe, compassion, and sadness. Heartbreaking.

Many restos and bars were upstairs in the OPC garden with tables laden with food and drink for sale, with everything being given up to OPC and the most fantastic flower arrangement by ‘Christian Events.’ I do hope Pilar Perez and

her hardworking coworkers had a stellar night.

Can anyone shed any light on why our Church of Guadalupe is dark at night? Sandra Cesca and I stood outside the church a couple of days ago, and she told me it has been unlit at night for months now. I saw some ladders around the crown, so perhaps they are doing some work, but she’s right – our Vallarta icon should be lit up.

So, I got bit on the forearm last Thursday morning. I didn’t feel anything but noticed a red spot the size of a peso coin around 8 in the morning. It continued to swell and hurt and itch like mad.

I used everything internally and topically that Ricardo Mazcal, our wizard herbalist at the Marsol Friday Market, gave me. Then, Saturday I woke up with a small elephant sitting on my chest!

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Yipes. Spent all day Sunday in bed: first time in decades. Feeling slightly better today – thanks for asking!

Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday. Please drop into the Marsol Friday Market by the Pier to get just the right gift. We have handmade cards, pickled beets, loads of jewelry from sterling, to antique silk, to beach glass, delightful chocolates filled with herbal elixirs (bet you can’t eat just one!) and much more.

See you from 9:30 to 1:30.

It’s getting hot and steamy outside. Keep your cool by giving away hugs to friends and smiles; especially to strangers. Your day will just get better, From Here.

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Paradise and Parenting Leza Warkentin

mommyinmexico.wordpress.com

I am the preschool coordinator and nursery teacher at the American School of Puerto Vallarta. I am also both unsurprised and not a bit sorry that this list of my favorites is mostly about places to eat. If you can live in Vallarta without appreciating some of the good eatin’ around here, you have to be at least half Vulcan.

Be a Friend

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oday is National Best Friends Day, and in celebration of that I will follow the old saying “If you want a friend, be a friend”. I could not consider myself a good friend unless I shared with you all an experience my husband and I had last week. If it saves ONE person the heartache, the headache, the backpain and the severe gastrointestinal reaction, I will know that I am a true friend.

My husband was driving through Las Juntas last week, minding his own business, when he was pulled over by state police and relieved of his (my) car. They took it from him for the grave infraction of sporting a protective, transparent covering over the license plates.

He called me immediately, and I actually snorted over the phone when he told me. I mean, c’mon.

Removing someone’s car because of a clear covering over a license plate?

This isn’t believable, and therefore I thought it was funny. His abrupt reaction to this made me understand that it wasn’t a joke, because he normally a very patient man. I went to pick him up because he was left standing on a street corner. He looked very, very bothered, and very, very car-less.

The next day he took his identification and the car circulation card and went to pay the fine and pick up the car at UNIRSE, the district government office in Fluvial. We expected to wrap this up that morning, because that seems reasonable.

Let me tell you something. This was not at all reasonable. And this is not even close to what happened (as you might have guessed, because I still have about 300 words left in this article).

What really happened is that he called me to leave my job and pick up about twenty pieces of paper that he was missing, including the car’s bill of sale (factura) that could not be older than thirty days, so it also involved a visit to the dealership. We hit the paper supply store to make copies of EVERYTHING. And then we waited exactly two hours in a very long line to pay a forty-two peso fine. That’s

right. The infraction that sent us into the meat grinder of bureaucracy cost less than a small Starbucks latte (and boy, did I ever need one by the time we finished).

We weren’t finished, though. After that we had to take the receipt and line up again with the transit office (in the same building) in order to present our paperwork. One hour later, we reached the front to be told that we were missing one piece of pivotal evidence. I need you to read this line people: the car’s permission to circulate is not enough. You MUST have the receipt that says you paid for the car’s permission to circulate.

Even though you would never, ever, ever have the permission had you never paid. And trust me, I tried to point out this fact to the traffic officer on the other side of the desk and I am the only one who laughed, albeit as humorlessly as I have ever laughed. Because guess where that receipt was?

In my impounded car.

We received a special scrap of stamped paper in order to enter our impounded car, so we went to the tow truck business that had possession of it. The keys were there. The car was not. The car was across town in their warehouse, so we had to go there and remove the paper. By then, the transit office was closed. Can you hear my bark of a laugh right now?

In the morning, we were the first in line. We were not really smiling, but we were not unfriendly. Our papers were finally accepted, and they told us they would make the liberation certificate while we waited (two more hours).

Once we went back to the tow truck office and received our keys (after paying over 1,400 pesos for the privilege), we were once again directed across town for our car.

Guys. I consider you friends, and I beg you to go outside right now and make sure that your license plate is free of any covers, frames, dust motes, or flea tracks. Learn all the rules, even the smallest, most seemingly insignificant of regulations.

Don’t let us have lost two days of work for nothing. Don’t let my current gastric reflux condition be in vain.

We’re friends, after all.

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Movement as Medicine

Medical Matters Pam Thompson

By Via Anderson

pamela@healthcareresourcespv.com

yogawithvia@gmail.com

Pamela Thompson operates HealthCare Resources Puerto Vallarta, a multi-faceted, independent, resource network that is here for your total health and well-being. We offer assistance to help find a physician, hospital and diagnostic service for any healthcare needs. www.healthcareresourcespv.com

Healthcare Resources Contact Lenses and Summer Health Info!

Via Anderson, E-RYT, is a Yoga and movement coach and teaches the Intelligent Movement Forever system of healthy movement in a weekly online class, in private sessions, and at Yoga Vallarta during the high season. This 77-year-old grandmother practices what she preaches and teaches. She is the author of “How to Move Without Pain: A Compendium of Intelligent Movement”, to be released in 2019. www.intelligentmovementforever.com

Should We Replace Mental Health Meds with Exercise?

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O good option in terms of better vision and eye health. This sure sounds good to me and I am ready to give it a whirl! If you would like to attend the clinic, please send me an email for an appointment.

On January 25, 2019 at 9am at Clinic Sanmare we are so excited to present Dr. Carlos Quintero, GP and medical director of Clinic Sanmare speaking on Summer Health Tips/Issues. Summer skin issues, bug bites including dengue, foot fungus, dehydration signs and treatment, special summer stomach issues and much more!

This is a no charge event but we request that you RSVP to me as space is limited.

Our June newsletter is out, albeit late but better late than never. Do you have leg pain, varicose veins, spider veins? Perhaps you should attend our Vascular Clinic. Do you have thyroid issues? Then our Thyroid clinic is for you. Knee pain?

Then we have a knee clinic! When was your last mammogram? If you are behind, then our Mammogram Clinic. You see, our clinics continue even in the ‘low season’!

Isn’t it about time for a deluge? I think we are all ready!

Here’s to a calm week!

ne hour of exercise four times a week may be better than prescription drugs for mental illness. This is the finding of a recent study by the University of Vermont (UV).

Previous research has shown that exercise helps with depression, anxiety, and mental health. Lancet Psychiatry Journal published a cross-sectional study of exercise and depression in 2018. It involved 1.2 million people across 50 states who exercised 3 to 5 times a week for 45 minutes. And found that they were less likely to experience an episode of poor mental health in the past month.

The UV study goes one step further than previous studies. It suggests that doctors may want to prescribe regular exercise before psychiatric drugs. The study took place in a controlled environment.

And had very high rates of positive effects in the participants.

An inpatient psychiatry facility at the UV built a gym on the premises.

It invited 100 residents to take part in a study that prescribed exercise as the first form of treatment.

For bipolar disorder, depression, borderline personality disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and schizophrenia. The study took place over a 12-month period.

Participants came from two units at the inpatient facility.

The patient population in Unit A included various mood disorders.

The patient population in Unit B included various forms of psychoses.

Patients volunteered to take part in four 60-minute exercise sessions a week. The sessions included a mix of cardiovascular, resistance, and flexibility training. After the sessions, they were asked two

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hen Dra. May Cadena told me she had a ‘contactologo’ that is now coming to Puerto Vallarta, once a month from Mexico City, it sort of reminded me instead of a fortune teller or someone that can make contacts into the beyond. Ha. No, not that.

A specialist in contact lenses! On June 22 and June 23, 2019 we will now have a “Contact Lens Clinic”.

This is for folks who are currently using, want to use contacts, have had problems in the past obtaining the proper contact lenses or those interested in using contact lenses. Dr. Mario personalizes the test for each eye as he brings many different kinds of contacts (types and materials) in order to offer the patient the most suitable for him/her. This is what makes the difference between going to a big box store or just any optician, and going to a specialist. The eyes are checked to be sure they are in perfect shape for using contacts making for a very complete experience. Dra. May insists that with all of the items that can be offered to a patient for improving their vision, she believes that contact lenses are the ones that can offer the best visual quality, even over glasses.

Obviously there are some contraindications, adverse effects and special care must be taken into account but generally speaking, contacts allow them to offer a very

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questions.

• “Did exercise improve your mood?”

• “Are you please with the way your body feels now?”

The results were stunning.

In Unit A, 93.2 percent of patients answered “yes” to Question 1 and 93 percent answered “yes” to Question 2. In Unit B, 96.8 percent of patients answered “yes” to Question 1 and 90.6 percent answered “yes” to Question 2.

In medicine, you treat the primary problem first,” says David Lag Tomasi, study co-author. But exercise has never been the first form of treatment in mental illness.

This study may change that. At least exercise may become as respected and fundamental as a pharmacological intervention.

Tomasi points out that exercise, like prescription drugs, is a non-verbal intervention. As such, it can be more effective than talk therapy and psychotherapy.

The study involved psychiatric inpatients. But the results have implications for anyone struggling with mental health issues. And that’s a lot of us. One in five U.S. adult is living with a mental illness.

Our happiness index is at an all-time low.

Summing Up: This study breaks new ground that has implications for everybody.

It allows us to think differently about mental illness and exercise.

It seems that the human body is designed to move. Maybe it’s time to get moving... again.

Reference: David Tomasi, Sheri Gates, Emily Reyns. Positive Patient Response to a Structured Exercise Program Delivered in Inpatient Psychiatry.

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, May 21, 2019 Medical disclaimer: This article is intended for education and information only. It is not a substitute for a doctor’s opinion.

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The Sea Turtles of Mexico’s Pacific coast Sea Turtles have lived on this earth an estimated 150 million years. There are seven species of these charismatic reptiles in the world, five of which live long periods of their lives foraging and nesting along the coasts of Pacific Mexico. These turtles migrate from as far away as Japan, and Hawaii

photo: Wendy Rains Baby turtle released on its way to the ocean of the region for feeding. One nest can contain as many as 100 eggs!

Leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea, Tortuga Laúd) The largest of all the species of sea turtles can be found throughout the world's oceans. Population data for these turtles indicate that they are confronting a grave problem of global extinction.

Sea turtles are considered threatened or endangered in every part of the world, and are included on protection lists such as CITES, the IUCN's Red List, the InterAmerican Convention, and the United Status list of Endangered Species.

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established that prohibit capturing, killing or selling of sea turtles, and the federal laws of Mexico prohibit their killing throughout all parts of the country.

Additionally, due to the large amount of turtles that are captured in the nets of shrimp and fishing boats, laws have been established in the U.S. and Mexico requiring that all trawling vessels use TEDs (Turtle Exclusionary Devices), which allow turtles to escape the nets.

The two biggest threats to our sea turtles’ survival are 1) Coastal Development, and 2) Ocean Pollution.

Development along the coast causes loss of precious coastal habitat that previously served as nesting areas. Any new lights along the coast also disorient the turtles when they return to the shore where they were born, to lay their eggs. If there is no longer a beach, or the beach is developed, the turtle may not lay her eggs.

Sea turtles can choke to death when they accidentally consume plastic bags and other types of trash, often mistaken for jellyfish, a part of some sea turtle species diet. Additionally, contaminants and chemicals entering the ocean from inland runoff or dumped from ships,

seriously affect their health.

Although they are protected, sea turtles need our help. They are regularly captured and sacrificed for the consumption of their meat and eggs. They mature very slowly and live very long lives. They reach twenty to thirty years of age before they are sexually mature and able to reproduce.

The Mexican agency in charge of protecting turtles is PROFEPA. If you witness illegal activities, contact their regional office.

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Famous Mosaics - El Nido de Quetzalcóatl in Mexico City

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asa El Pulpito is a cozy Mexican style home located in a quiet neighborhood just five minutes from the Marina terminal. This family oriented neighborhood offers a linear park just a few steps away from the front door that is ideal for pet walking or barbecues. It’s open floor plan provides good space in the living room connecting it to the bar and kitchen. With two good size bedrooms and built in closets, this home offers plenty of storage space. Its large back patio is great for pets, or could easily be converted into an addition of the home. With a very strong foundation and structure, this home could be enlarged to accommodate the growth of your family. This is the Puerto Vallarta starter home you have been looking for!

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mythical feathered dragon known as a Quetzalcóatl, built with care on an impossibly difficult plot of land, by a world-famous bio-architect.

So it’s a special place indeed.

One of the ways the design of this park honors that bio-architecture classification is with a large natural tunnel that they left intact and made a focal point of the design. They just went ahead and stuck a mosaic snake head on it, and now your walk in the park can include the belly of a beast too.

A still, natural lagoon sits lazily in the meadow.

Slowly a stream of water meanders through another part of the park, eventually dripping gracefully from a finely-crafted Quetzalcóatl tail. Lush plant gardens spill over onto incredible curved retainers which guide you through light-splashed hallways lined with smooth colored glass. It’s a real-life wonderland, drawn on inspiration from the imaginary.

There’s no place like El Nido de Quetzalcoatl anywhere in the world, that

much is for sure. Dibs on the window seat.

Learn more about the architect here: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Javier_Senosiain Learn more about the park here: https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/nido-dequetzalcoatl-mexico.html Learn more about bio-architecture here: http://www.theimploder.com/products/ other-developments-fractal-technology/ bio-architecture

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This week our virtual tour is headed to El Nido de Quetzalcóatl (The Nest of the Quetzalcóatl), a hidden gem just outside Mexico City. On this oddlyshaped and multi-tiered plot of land is where you’ll find an eco-park showcasing the work of Natasha’s favorite architect: Javier Senosiain.

With its grand scale, organic and flowing shapes, whimsical features and compelling design, it’s hard to know where to look at first. It’s all just so… wow…

Creating unique homes (and controversy) since the 1980’s, world-class bio-architect Javier Senosiain is famous for his sinuous, organic style. The main distinction of a bio-architect from any other architect is the ease with which their designs harmonize with the natural elements around them. The bio-architecture field holds within its ranks an esteemed class of designers; Frank Lloyd Wright and Antoni Gaudi are other notable architects in this group.

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Sheryl Novak is an expat Canadian who has owned a home in Mexico for over ten years. She is the owner of SOLutions Mexico and The Furniture Store by SOLutions Mexico. She is an expert on sourcing all styles of furniture for all sizes of budgets, in Mexico.

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Why the Financial Requirements for a Mexican Resident Card Vary by Consulate Location

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f you plan on getting either a temporary or permanent Mexican resident card, chances are that you’re going to have to prove economic solvency in order to be approved.

That’s just a fancy way of saying that you’ll have to meet certain financial requirements to prove that you can support yourself in Mexico and not be a drain on their economy. That part makes sense to most people, the problem is that the financial requirements will vary from one Mexican consulate to the next.

For applicants who are right on the financial line, the difference can be enough to get their application rejected by one consulate but accepted by a consulate located in another city.

A Look at Where the Numbers Come From Contrary to what you might read in some Facebook groups, the financial thresholds are not being arbitrarily set.

They are determined by mathematical formulas; however, the formula used will depend on the type of resident card you’re applying for (temporary or permanent), and if there are any special circumstances (e.g. family ties in Mexico).

Here’s an example of what I’m talking about: Let’s say someone is applying for a temporary resident card, and they’re going to prove economic solvency through either a pension payment or foreign earned income (e.g. remote job).

The applicant will be required to prove that he or she has an average monthly income (after taxes) of at least 300 days of the Mexican minimum wage: 300 X $102.68 = $30,804 pesos.

That amount of $30,804

MXN does not change. Every Mexican consulate on the planet will determine if an applicant for a resident card meets the requirement based on that number.

And Then Just Like That, the Numbers Were Different In spite of what I just told you, the fact is that the financial requirements do vary from one consulate location to another and the reason why is this: Each consulate location is tasked with determining what the set value in pesos would be in the foreign currency.

That’s right, they are setting the value based on an exchange rate that is in a constant state of change.

Since it would be impractical to change the financial requirements on a daily basis, each consulate picks an exchange rate and runs the numbers.

For example: If one consulate used an exchange rate of 19 MXN: 1 USD to determine the values, and the one in another city used 18.3 MXN: 1 USD, the final financial requirements will be quite different.

It’s also not uncommon for the consulates to round the number up or down. For example, $1,621 USD may become $1,600 or $1,700.

So, what does this all mean if you’re applying for Mexican residency? It just means that you should make contact with the Mexican consulate where you plan to apply for residency and obtain a copy of their specific requirements.

If you want more information about the financial requirements for obtaining Mexican residency, check out my previous article: Retiring in Mexico: Financial Requirements for Residency.

Picture this spectacular bedroom

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o you plan to rent out your home in Vallarta when you are not using it? If so, you want it to look spectacular in the pictures you post on rental sites.

Everyone loves a beautiful master bedroom. Anyone planning a vacation wants to get away from it all and relax. Here are some tips to help you design the quintessential relaxing bedroom that will have renters drooling to stay at your place.

Select a theme for your room. The most popular décor themes people are selecting are mid-century modern, coastal, and natural. So that you can see how different each of these looks, I have included pictures of each style in this article.

Mid-century modern is really gaining in popularity. With clean lines, use of different materials and beautiful curves, its no wonder that it is making such a comeback.

Mid-century modern is a celebration of form and function and is a perfect choice style for smaller rooms. Headboards and dressers are most often wood in a natural stain. Splash brighter colors like orange, red or lime on an accent chair and toss cushions to complete the look.

The coastal style is also hot right now. The photos of your property can remind your renter of what they will enjoy when they stay. Selecting a bedroom suite that has them remembering their day at the beach will create the experience they are seeking. Distressed wood head-

boards and nightstands looking like they have been weather-beaten for years make a great statement.

Pair with luxurious white linens and crisp sheets and your guests may prefer to stay in bed than venture down to the seaside.

Natural décor has been proven to reduce stress. It makes sense.

The idea is to get away from technology and back to the tranquility of nature. What better for a bedroom

than this décor style? Uneven headboards made from a natural slab of parota wood, nightstands of cactus bases or bamboo ladders to hang your fluffy white towels are options to consider when styling your natural themed décor bedroom.

With the key elements in place, its time to add more sizzle. Add a lot of pillows. Although it is a problem back home in our day-to-day lives, when we are on holiday, it never seems to be an issue. In your rental photos, it will make a huge difference between average and spectacular.

Add a soft, plush rug beside the bed. Texture in decorating is essential, so the fluffier, the better.

When staging your bedroom for pictures, place a beautiful white terry robe on the bed or a wood tray with a couple of glasses of orange juice and a fresh tropical flower.

Instead of table lamps, you can create more visual appeal with hanging pendants over your nightstands. I just installed some stunning wrought iron pendant lamps in the DResidences model suite bedroom. They were the same price as table lamps, but the drama they create is far superior.

Are you looking to make a statement with your bedroom furniture, lighting or décor? Send me a picture of your room or contact me at sa.novak@solutionsmexico.com for a free consultation.

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Sinking Cities John Warren

john3984@me.com

John Warren is in charge of Publicity for the International Friendship Club (IFC). His articles describe the programs and charities that IFC supports, the sources of income of IFC and the social experiences, lectures and classes that members can enjoy. During the summer John writes about Puerto Vallarta.

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ncreasing sea levels that are affecting many parts of the world but Puerto Vallarta’s future seems to be safe. But for those of us who love this paradise on the bay, we’re here only for part of the year, and then we must “go home,” wherever it is.

Let’s hope that your home is not Jakarta, the present capital of Indonesia and home to 10,600,000. It’s not only the fourth largest city in the world by population, but it is also known as “the world’s fastestsinking city.” Parts of it are already below sea-level, and the place has sunk thirteen feet in the last thirty years. Six weeks ago Indonesian President Joko Widodo decided that the risk to the capital was too significant to ignore and that Indonesia must now build a new one. Moving ten million people to higher ground in the next thirty years will be a stretch.

Let’s hope that your home is not on one of “the small island developing states”of SIDS. An intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small island countries was formed in 1990, thirty years ago almost, to consolidate the voices of people living in these places to address global warming. Fifty-two island nations belong to SIDS and are dotted around the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea. “The 52 [small island] nations

are home to over 62 million people, emit less than one percent of global greenhouse gases, yet they suffer disproportionately from the climate change that global emissions cause,” says Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.

The people of each island nation face their own unique challenges, but some common disasters occur across all these nations. As sea level rises, they face increased flooding and erosion of their shorelines, freshwater becomes undrinkable and agricultural land is unusable when seawater seeps in.

Look at the nation of the Maldive Islands located in the Indian Ocean.

It’s the lowest country on the planet.

The average height of its 1,200 islands, which spread across 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles ) is only 1.2 meters (four feet) above sea level.

Already, ever-higher waves are encroaching on the shores of the lowest islands and are eroding the beaches. When a tropical cyclone or tsunami wave approaches, there is nowhere for residents to go, and they must get out in a hurry. Many residents have even been forced to leave their homes forever, and whole communities have been shattered.

Let’s hope that your home is not in New York, Vancouver or, heaven forbid, Miami? You, too, might want to think about whether your home will survive another thirty years.

Klaus Jacob is a research scientist at Columbia’s University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and has been studying the effects of climate change on New York for decades. He was featured in a New York Magazine article. http:// nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/ new-york-future-flooding-climate-change.html His findings suggest that a child born today in Manhattan may live to see the waters in and around the city rise by six feet over the next seventy years, as the consequences of global warming.

The deluge will begin slowly, and irregularly, and will confound human perceptions of change.

Areas that never had flash floods will start to experience them, in part because global warming will also increase precipitation. High tides will spill over old bulkheads when there is a full moon. People will start carrying rubber boots to work.

All the commercial skyscrapers, housing, cultural institutions, and sewage treatment plants that currently sit near the waterline will be forced to contend with routine inundation. And cataclysmic floods will become more common. Now, a surge of six feet has a one percent chance of happening each year — it’s what climatologists call a “100year” storm. By 2050, if sea-level rise happens as rapidly as many scientists think it will, today’s hundred-year floods will become five times more likely, making mass destruction a once-a-generation occurrence. Like a stumbling boxer, the city, whether it’s New York, Vancouver or Miami, will try to keep its guard up, but the sea will only gain strength.

At the moment, Puerto Vallarta seems to be safe from increasing sea level. But that assumes that not much will change in the next twenty or thirty years and that’s not a safe assumption.

The Maldivian cabinet held a meeting underwater to highlight the need for action on climate change…in 2009

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Adorable Dog in the Spotlight: LASSO

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asso is looking for a forever home with an active family who loves to explore the great outdoors. He is the leader of his pack and just loves to learn new things. Lasso is a Lab mix, just under 2 years old and weighing 40 pounds. He loves getting attention from his humans and prefers to play with other female dogs. He doesn’t get along with felines. Lasso has been neutered, dewormed and vaccinated. If you think he would be the perfect companion animal for your family, contact us at spcapv@ gmail.com for an application.

Urgently seeking VOLUNTEERS for our FREE SPAY/NEUTER Clinics

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id you know the SPCA has been doing free Spay/ Neuter clinics since March

too?

This project was Janice Chatterton´s latest passion. She recognized that even with all the other free clinics that are already offered in town, there is still such a big need for more free sterilizations, especially in the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta.

So we have started a 2-day free clinic almost every week on Mondays and Tuesdays, every week in a different Colonia. Up to date we have been able to fix a total of 468 pets since we started in March.

But we need your help to be able to continue!

We need volunteers for every clinic who can help us with the basic organization, like checking in and registering the owners and pets, also cleaning instruments, and monitoring the pets when they come out of surgery.

You don´t have to have any experience, we can teach you everything right there, and it is not difficult. Time commitment: 8am -2pm.

Even if you can only help one day, please consider donating a morning of your time to help us prevent hundreds of unwanted puppies and kittens from being born. It is very important and gratifying work.

If you are able to help, please email us to spcapv@gmail.com

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Life in la Cruz Cindy Bouchard

cindy@VillaAmordelMar.com

Cindy Bouchard, an expat Canadian runs a Boutique Inn, Villa Amor del Mar in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. She and her husband Chris are living and lovin’ in Vallarta–Nayarit. If you want more info on La Cruz or desire… A very special vacation contact cindy@VillaAmordelMar.com

Kiki creates seafood in the waterfront town of La Cruz

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nrique Garcia or as we call him, Kiki, is customer-focused and loves serving others. Self taught in the kitchen with help from his wife Sara, evolving into owning his own restaurant came naturally. Many locals know him from when he worked serving and creating pizzas at Philo’s, then serving at Britannia Pub (where Sara worked making the meals).

He opened his first restaurant, Mariscos El Kiki, in 2014 specializing in ceviche; his own unique creation, which is still the most ordered item on the menu!! He uses many different fish for his ceviche depending on what is most fresh that day; Dorado, Sierra, Bota, so many great fish he told me. The menu has grown, specializing in food from the sea of our waterfront village. Customers favourite meals are: Aquachile, Shrimp filled with Marlin fish and cheese wrapped in bacon called Camaron Momia as in ‘wrapped like a mummy’, Cucaracha (crispy) shrimp, Tuna Sashimi (which is what I had and was delicious) and tacos; hubby Chris tasted the Marlin, Shrimp and Dorado tacos and loved them all.

Having had such great success in his original, and when the landlord wanted the space back, Kiki decided to turn the lot beside his house into a restaurant. Same name, same great food and service and easier to walk to… who could ask for anything more? It’s located at #4 Pámpano between Sierra and Coral across from the primary school.

Born in Tepic and raised in Guadalajara, Kiki arrived in La Cruz at nineteen years of age with his family. His mother was ready to settle into a slower lifestyle and his dad had just retired from banking.

Kiki’s mom hails from the Martinez family from La Cruz and moving

here meant family time.

Kiki’s meant for this business and he loves all aspects from bookkeeping to serving to his true love; his Zen zone, cooking. At this moment his clientele is mostly Mexicans yet Kiki told me “More and more tourists and expat locals are visiting everyday!” In my mind, if the majority of diners are Mexican he’s definitely doing something correct; good value and great food!

The restaurant has about fifty seats and can accommodate seventy to one hundred people. Kiki invites you to let him create a party for you and your friends.

Kiki’s wife Sara was born and raised in La Cruz and she too comes by cooking naturally. Her family, the Columba’s, have a restaurant, fishing boats and are

fishermen too! Kiki says he likes going fishing with his brother in-laws. Beyond that the only water activity he likes doing is swimming.

When I asked him if he cooked at home, Kiki barrel laughed and stated “NO, we always go out for dinner on our day off, we don’t want to cook anymore.”

Kiki and his family do as much for the town as they can, contributing to the Amigos de La Cruz via recycling, offering their services, son Enrique dancing at various events and more.

Kiki told me “ I’m inspired by and most proud of my family and especially this – he points to mom and son in the kitchen – that we get to work together. I live in this beautiful tranquil town with great music every night where we can walk in safety everywhere we want to go!

The people of the town are happy and the police told me there is very little domestic or other violence.

Most of the original families are still living here. I love my life!”

Make Mariscos el Kiki a destination for a meal, open from 11- 7 everyday except Monday.

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Life in the Slow Lane Kelly Wilson

mybucerias404@gmail.com

Upon retiring in Ontario, Kelly and her husband finally arrived in Puerto Vallarta.

Via a one way ticket during the summer of 2017, they now call Bucerias home.

As avid adventurers, they enjoy exploring the entire Banderas Bay area. Kelly owns an on-line career coaching business, and spends time volunteering for various local organizations.

This and That

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’ve found something kind of peculiar at the Mexican grocery stores compared to the ones in Southern Ontario. It reminds me of Sesame Street, the skit where “one of these things just doesn’t belong”.

Often, items on the shelves will have a “bonus” free sample attached for the consumer’s enjoyment. OK, it’s always great to get free stuff. What I find comical is the certain, shall I say, pairings. I need a new bottle of dish soap? Hey, it comes with a package of pencils! How about a bag of cookies? Look here, you also get a free hair brush.

If I were in marketing, I would suggest more compatible duos.

With your microwave popcorn?

Voila...free toothpicks. A loaf of bread would come with a peanut butter sample. There’s lunch. In the spirit of full disclosure, I must say I am usually drawn in. I tend to choose the product with the free thingy attached. Perhaps those marketers do know what they’re doing. Warning though, break out the machete...the samples are attached by adult-proof super duper tape, wound around and around.

I recently went searching for three meters of fishing line. At the last Nuevo Vallarta Rivera Farmer’s Market of the season, I bought two beautiful glass hummingbirds in colours that match our living room. I wanted to hang them from the chandelier that towers four meters above.

After realizing grocery stores do not stock fishing line among their sporting goods we moved on to a marine store, found online, at the south end of Bucerias. The day we dropped in they were packing up and moving. No luck there.

Well, I thought to myself, where else to buy gear related to fish but the Mercado del Mar in La Cruz. On our weekly visit to pick up shrimp (or tuna, or red snapper), I asked if I could purchase some fishing line. “I only need about three

meters”. Three because I need to buy one more hummingbird, using about one meter for each bird. I told my husband, “Of course I need another one. Everyone knows you must decorate using odd numbers”.

Anyway, the folks at the fish market either did not understand my poor attempt at Spanish, or they didn’t have any to sell. I realized after, duh, they don’t exactly fish with poles! We did find, however, a mini-super located at the very end of the fish market where I was finally able to purchase some clear fishing wire. Five hundred meters of it.

This little story of ours is nowhere near finished.

After getting those beauties hung from the chandelier, one broke, just yesterday. No, it did not try to fly away or spontaneously combust. I had the sliding doors wide open off the living room, and wouldn’t you know it, a young pigeon flew right in. He toured around for a bit, then settled on the inside ledge above the doors.

My husband, the bird whisperer, gently guided him out using our pool net. Pigeon happy, us happy. While returning the net with the long pole though, the handle whacked against one of the birds. Smash. Goodness knows I have enough line to hang yet another one. Let me know if you need four-hundred and ninety-something meters of fishing line.

Maybe one day I’ll sneak into a grocery store, find the display for bed pillows, and attach the remaining spool to one as a bonus.

Someone would be very happy, I’m sure.

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Busing Banderas Bay

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Summer Music

Bruce Howells

Christie Seeley

Bruce is a retired Canadian, who along with his wife Velma, took a “mulligan” on life and escaped the cold of Canada and settled in the Vallarta area. Fulfilling a retirement dream of not driving anymore, Bruce will use public transportation to tour the bay and tell his tales here. Tips and itineraries welcome.

From Oakland, California to Puerto Vallarta…lured by music of guitars and sounds of the sea. vallartasounds.com

busbanderasbay@gmail.com

vezelay@mac.com

Captain Don’s 2.0

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s with many things Mexican, by the time you read this, Captain Don’s may or may not have had their official reopening.

Berenice does a great job on Facebook of highlighting their activities; stay tuned for official opening dates and promotions.

When I heard that Captain Don’s was undergoing renovations, my initial thought was, “What could they possibly do to make Captain Don’s better”?

Was I surprised!

While Berenice hired contractors, she was there every day supervising and keeping an eye on her vision, and tending to her friends, family, and customers.

Her vision was to increase seating (twenty tables), update and expand the kitchen, increase the dance floor and renovate the bar.

Berenice kept her clients informed of the renovation progress; utilizing FB and keeping her place open as much as possible, while providing the usual level of service to her friends and clients, construction and all.

On my first visit during the renovations, I discovered walls (on one side) were missing to the ladies washroom, the BBQ and storage areas were gone. The stage was missing; it was now in the back patio area, with a roof over the area, awaiting insulation.

WOW! The “missing” washroom wall has provided entertaining viewing as women, who I am sure were used to both walls to navigate the path to the washroom, now have only one wall for support.

My next visit I discovered walls around an expanded kitchen area, with stuff piled up around the area amid a flurry of activity; painting and construction proceeding at a steady Mexican pace. Blinding spotlights mounted on the ceiling did not enhance the atmosphere. Berenice confided later that they were still experimenting on a comfort level.

I discovered recently when I thought that my backpack was missing from my table, that there are security cameras installed at Captain

More About Summer Music in Puerto Vallarta

T Dons. Originally installed when Don Olsen was ill but still wanted to be a part of his bar, they are now used to provide security coverage of all areas.

Upon hearing of my missing bag, the staff notified Berenice, who immediately pulled the videotapes.

Then I remembered, we had been home that afternoon and we had left the backpack at home. Notice the use of “we” rather than “I” in the previous sentence. That will cost me husband points!

The cameras will be incorporated into the renovations.

As an added security feature, Berenice has been installing hooks on many tables to hang purses and backpacks on, no need to hang them on the back of your chair.

The Horses have been moved with the stage. I asked Berenice the story behind the horses and she really didn’t know but thought perhaps Gilberto, a former silent partner, found them in the garbage or purchased it.

Still the Same: The pool table is there, the book exchange, the Horses, and the friendly staff.

Roberto is in charge of the kitchen and is looking forward to creating a new menu.

Tidbits: Those drippings bags of ice that all members of the staff transport to the bar weigh 25 kgs each and on a busy day, they can go thru twenty-five or thirty bags.

The Big Change: During an interview with Berenice last year, I told her I supported her right to allow smoking in her bar but it sure sucked and we stayed away on busy days.

With a bigger than usual smile on her face, Berenice informed me that the area from the stage to halfway back was going to be smoke-free.

WOW, Captain Dons just got better!

racy Parks’ Club, Incanto, is one of my favorite venues in Puerto Vallarta.

To start with, their location is super inviting at Insurgentes #109 by the bridge. I frequently enjoy a pleasant breakfast served on their peaceful terrace looking over the River Cuale. Incanto is doing us the great favor of staying open this summer even as other venues close. Starting June 21 they are showcasing several very talented local artists in the Theater.

On June 21, José Carlos comes to us from La Palapa where I first heard him. He was part of a fun duo called Paper Boats. José now plays solo and has been quite aggressive in pursuing his career, winning awards and, just recently releasing second single CD of an original composition, Sin Amanecer, which has been well received. I recently caught a radio interview with him on 93.5 fm where he played some of his thoughtful compositions and was very impressed. He will do this show with invited guests and it promises to be excellent.

Lobo and Esaú will return on June 26, 8:00PM. The fabulous flamenco duo of world famous Wolfgang “Lobo” Fink and his protégé maestro Esaú Galván join together for yet another marvelous concert of inspired improvised flamenco guitar music. The two have a long history together and speak to one another on guitar like nothing you have ever experienced.

This is music you have never heard before and will never hear again as it is spontaneous and entirely original. At this performance they introduce their second CD recorded together this year.

Lady Zen, recently relocated from San Miguel de Allende to Puerto Vallarta, will do some great ticketed shows in the Piano Bar starting June 16. She is a wonderful person with an incredible voice and inspiring story. Put her on your calendars

Many of us have enjoyed the sold out concerts Enrique de Allende has held at Incanto recently. He has a classically trained, smooth and impressive voice that will carry you away. His repertoire ranges from Frank Sinatra and Julio Iglesias to Puccini. His personality is engaging making for a wonderful evening at Incanto Theater June 30, 8:00.

June 25 marks the debut of the long awaited Greater Tuna Does Las Vegas. I am glad this debut takes place before I depart for a month as last year’s show was wonderful and I would hate to miss this one! Tracy Parks and Ron Spencer are magnificent as they transform themselves into the multiple characters involved in the show. Don’t miss it!

The Piano Bar will also be featuring great entertainment with no cover this summer. Duck in to get out of the rain or enjoy their air conditioning and enjoy great entertainment. Aunt Pearl is holding forth with bingo, musical offerings include Zoe y Leon, Rentería Brothers, Benji on piano, Joby and Tongo with his hand made instruments, and many more. (See Incantovallarta.com for a full list and schedule.) They also plan to present movies in the Theater, so stay tuned!

There is never a dull moment in Puerto Vallarta—always great music and entertainment!

See my website for more details vallartasounds.com

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Vibes & Vices: Oceanfront Bistro

AJ Freeman

cosmiccapt@gmail.com

AJ Freeman is an adventurous spirit, serial friendmaker, and general enthusiast. He lives his everyday life hoping to demonstrate the nearly infinite potential for discovery and wonder on this small wet rock orbiting a dim yellow star in the backwoods of the Milky

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’ve mentioned before I generally avoid restaurants on the Malecon like yellow snow, but after getting more than a few reader recommendations I just had to see what all the fuss was about here. With Restaurant Week finally drawing to a close after several weeks, I figured now was an ideal time to investigate.

The Vibes: Assistant Nicté and I arrived at Vitea with rare punctuality, hoping to enjoy the fresh sea breeze and one of those famous Vallarta sunsets even if the food was terrible--which, honestly, it is in a few local restaurants that we don’t have to talk about right now.

Mama Freeman says if you don’t have anything nice to say...

Moving on, Vitea Oceanfront Bistro is an ideal place for people-watching, stationed on our promenade through paradise about a blocks’ walk south of the Los Arcos Ampitheatre. Groups and families ambled back and forth along the boardwalk as street performers and vendors of fine beach junk competed for their pesos...a fascinating environment for barstool sociologists such as myself.

The Vices: Being the excellent

assistant she is, Nicté suggested that we each make different selections from the 3-course menu in order to sample the most possible wares. Being the oversized 3rd grader I am, I internally made it into a competition to see who had the better taste between us.

After some opening ceremonies involving a bread basket served alongside poblano pepper cheese sauce, Round 1 took place as an appetizer battle between her smoked porchetta slices with salad and my tomato soup with goat cheese toast points. Although my choice put up a valiant effort and goat cheese is an absolute good, there’s just no competing with tender cuts of seasoned pork for this adamant omnivore.

It wasn’t the first time I’d been on the wrong side of a 10-9 round, but the tide could really turn in my favor with a strong performance in the next frame. A red snapper filet atop crab raviolo took the field of culinary combat on my end, while my assistant elected to counter with chicken with shrimp in a truffle sauce.

Scoring this round proved even tougher--read those descriptions again, I mean, come on--but as any

boxing fan can tell you, leaving the decision to the scorecard is never ideal. It would all come down to the third and final round.

Nicté gave it her best shot, yes she did...her neapolitan spumoni would have been more than enough to stop a match with most competitors.

Unfortunately for her, I am not most competitors.

Using a diner’s eye trained over many long nights in area eateries, I called on the peach cobbler with coconut ice cream...she never saw it coming. It was not only one of the most excellent desserts I’ve had during my time in the city, but one of the damn tastiest things to ever pass my lips. An instant knockout, thanks for playing, AJwinslol.

The Verdict: Until recently, Vitea Oceanfront Bistro was just another storefront along the Malecon to walk by on my way from here to there. Today, I would recommend stopping by for the peach cobbler alone, although based on what we tasted it’s really hard to go wrong.

Simply said, Vitea boasts some of the most satisfying seaside selections in the city...it’s a perfect place for a food fight. Maybe I’ll catch you there.

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Live Music Calendar

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This listing features bars and restaurants that may have live music and ongoing acts, if there are no acts listed, check with the venue as they may still have events planned. Schedules can change without notice.

We do not take responsibility for misinformation. Email editor@vallartatribune.com to update or add listings.

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Aloha Bar (Plaza Parabien #16) Thur: Dr. Groove 10pm

Babel Bar (Aquiles Serdán 437, Isla del Cuale) Fri: Faralae 7-9 pm Sat: Nacho and Diego 1 – 3 pm Sat: Oscar & Raul 7-9 pm Sun: Esau & Lobo 1 - 3 pm

Chasers Sports Bar (Avenida Mexico 570A) Fri: Gecko Band 8 – 11 pm Eddies (Boulevard Nayarit 70) Weekly – Live music 6:30 – 9:30

Blakes Restaurant and Bar (Plaza Los Glorias #16)

El Barracuda (Boulevard Nayarit 70-8)

Captain Don’s (Honduras 126) Fri: Tequila Rush 8 - 11 pm Sat: Da Crew 8 - 11 pm

Estudio Café (Paseo de la Marina 31)

Ernestos Good Grub (Calle Perra,Jarretaderas)

Cuates y Cuetes (Francisca Rodriquez 101) Tues: Moruno at 8:30 – 10pm Wed: Tatewari 6:00 – 8:00 pm Sun: Moruno at 8:30 – 10 pm Daquiri Dick’s (Malecon and Lazaro Cardenas) Sun: Esaú Galvan 7:30 – 9:30 pm El Oasis de Holi (River mouth by La Isla Mall) Sat: Dr. Groove 6 pm El Rio BBQ, (Paso Ancho) Sun: The Cheko Ruiz Band at 3 p.m.

Jardin Montenegro Restaurant Blvd. Nuevo Vallarta #220 – Nuevo Vallarta

BUCERIAS Encore Restaurant & Lounge (51 Lazaro Cardenas | Bucerias) Buzzos (In front of Bungalows Princess | Bucerias) El Chivero (Avenida Pacifico 9, Centro | Bucerias)

Incanto (Insurgentes 109) Sun: Benji Gutierrez, Piano 7:30 PM Tues: Lady Zen 7:30 PM Wed: Bob Bruneau, Piano 5 PM Sat: Footprints Band 7:30 PM

Drunken Duck (Avenida Mexico, Centro | Bucerias) Wed: The Gecko Band 9 pm Sun: The Gecko Band 5pm

Kelly’s Pour Favor Saloon and Cookhouse (Lazaro Cardenas 245) Mon: Hoochie Coochie Men 8 - 11 pm Wed: Tequila Rush 8 – 11 pm Thurs: 3Tones 8 – 11 pm Fri: Dr. Groove 8 – 11 pm Sat: Soul Trip 8 – 11 pm Sun: No music during low season La Casa de La Hugo (Hamburgo 146, Versalles)

JAX Bar and Grill (Avenida Mexico 17, Bucerias)

LA CRUZ Ana Bananas (Tiburón #42 | La Cruz) Sun: Live Music 7 pm Greene Tomato (Town Square, La Cruz) OSO’s Oyster Bar ( La Cruz Marina) Sat: The Remedy 7 pm

La Ingrata (Abasolo 169) Late night DJ most nights Murphy’s Irish Pub (484 Morelos, Malecon) Thur: The Others at 10 pm Fri: The Others at 10 pm Sat: The Others at 10 pm Special: Fri: June 7 La Trez Cuartoz Nacho Daddy (287 Basilio Badillo) Tue: Cat Daddy’s 8:30 pm Wed: Joker Band 8:30 pm Fri: Texas Embassy Blues Band 8:30 pm

Upcoming June Events 59th San Blas International Sport Fishing Tournament (June 27-29) The Historic Port of San Blas is set to welcome the 59th San Blas International Sport Fishing Tournament from June 13th through the 17th at the Marina Fonatur.

The event’s main organizer is the Tepic Sport Fishing Club. Participants will compete in three categories: Sailfish, Marlin, and Mahi-Mahi.

This tournament is considered the best of its kind in the Mexican Pacific, and one of the top ten best events of the year in the Riviera Nayarit.

For more information click here: https://bit.ly/2VYAsV3 Battle of the Saints in Mexcaltitán (June 29) Among the most iconic traditional ceremonies are the patron saint festivities for saints Peter and Paul on the Island of Mexcaltitán, the birthplace of Mexicanness.

The celebration includes a pilgrimage emulating the Mexicas or the Aztecas, who left Aztlán to establish the great city of Tenochtitlán.

Sayulita Pee Wee Surfing League (TBD) Sayulita will be hosting the surfing league for minors, which seeks to encourage new talent in a sport that has produced so many great examples on a national level. The league is presented by Ramos Shapes, Sunset Bungalows, and Los Rudos SurfShop under the competition formats established by the World Championship Tour Top 33 via the World Surf League (WSL), the ISA (International Surfing Association), and the Nayarit State Surfing Association (ASENAY), with the support of the local surfing clubs from the different host destinations.

Visit the Facebook page here: https://bit.ly/2HMhSvx Humming Bird Celebration (June 16) With your admission to the Vallarta Botanical gardens on June 16 you’ll enjoy hummingbird themed events including a talk on the little birds.

More details at : facebook.com/vbgardensac Mexico’s National Botanical Garden Day (June 22) The Vallarta Botanical Gardens has some special events planned for this day including a chocolate making course. Some events have an additional fee while others are included in the cost of admission. More details at facebook.com/vbgardensac

Britannia (Coral, La Cruz) Tues: Open mic with The Turn 7pm La Cruz Inn (36 Calle Marlin | La Cruz)

SAYULITA & SAN PANCHO El Atico Hookah (Sayulita) Don Pato (Marlin 12, Sayulita) Live music nightly

Que/Pasa (625 Aquiles Serdan) Tues: The Change at 7-10pm Sun: Sylvie&The Zippers 7 – 10 pm

Jack’s Cantina (Sayulita beside bus terminal)

Roxy Rockhouse (Ignacio L Vallarta 275) Nightly music after 11 pm with house band

Faro Mita (Higuera Blanca)

View these listings and more online at www.vallartatribune.com/eventos/live-music-calendar/

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