Picking a destination for next year?
Hey Everyone, It has been a bit of torture following folks Mexico travels on this forum knowing that we couldn't go this year. So here I am looking towards Winter of 2016 and our chance to head ...
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If you're again heading down the Mainland Pacific Mexican coast, have at least a month's time to spend, figure on your journey to take you just over a thousand miles, leaving from Lukeville, Arizona or Nogales, Arizona/Mexico. In the area southeast of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, down nearly as far as Manzanillo, Colima, you will find a very good winter climate. This is the Coasta Alegra. We would take five driving days to get there, and always took time off the road to enjoy various other locations. Returning was another, even slower trip, as we explored the inland regions that, by then, were cooler than the beaches. At this time of the year it seldom rains there; early morning temperatures in December for example, are about 65 F. which will typically rise during the day to 85 F. in the afternoons. The water temperatures will be near 85 F. in early November, and decreases gradually until March is reached, when it will be closer to 78 F.
If one were to drive south from Manzanillo as the hours go by the temperature will almost invariably rise, and not only because of the time of the day; you are entering another climate, even warmer. When on a sunny day you may find the water dripping from the underside of your awning, you have high humidity and you could be looking for Air Conditioning! Farther north you may find one or two days of the week when dew condensation is evident on outside surfaces very early in the morning, but never later in the day, and never dripping from the underside of your awning.
When we dry camped at Tenacatita, 120 miles south of Puerto Vallarta, we relied on solar, nobody used generators, so of course, we had no AC. Where we camped along the coral beach by the "aquarium," there was no electricity, but fabulous snorkeling was never more than 40 feet away. We enjoyed nearly a year and a half there, spread over seven winters. I hope you can find such a place, develop fine friendships, and a love for the Mexican people as we did.
If one were to drive south from Manzanillo as the hours go by the temperature will almost invariably rise, and not only because of the time of the day; you are entering another climate, even warmer. When on a sunny day you may find the water dripping from the underside of your awning, you have high humidity and you could be looking for Air Conditioning! Farther north you may find one or two days of the week when dew condensation is evident on outside surfaces very early in the morning, but never later in the day, and never dripping from the underside of your awning.
When we dry camped at Tenacatita, 120 miles south of Puerto Vallarta, we relied on solar, nobody used generators, so of course, we had no AC. Where we camped along the coral beach by the "aquarium," there was no electricity, but fabulous snorkeling was never more than 40 feet away. We enjoyed nearly a year and a half there, spread over seven winters. I hope you can find such a place, develop fine friendships, and a love for the Mexican people as we did.
