Puerto Vallarta

We enjoyed a day off the bikes in and around Puerto Vallarta and continued our string of coincidental encounters as we heard that Holly's old coworker Andrew and his girlfriend Aryn were enjoying a break from winter in Whitehorse and shared a drink and travel stories with them along the Malecon. The next morning Holly rode the 17 km back into Puerto Vallarta (a section she described as one of the more harrowing rides of the trip after her bus-dodging ride out to Bucerias the first day) while Karl took the bus in to pick up his fixed-up ride. Once we had Karl's bike out of the shop we put the new wheels straight to the test riding the bumpy coblestone streets (definitely not designed with cyclists in mind) to the Malecon, where we saw a circus display, and through the old town centre before we waved goodbye and rode out of town past a smattering of high-end resort hotels.Read more