RV Park Price Survey
We are curious about prices at RV parks this year, and would love to see what different parks are charging. Here's our input so far: Totonaka, San Carlos, Sonora, 420p per night Las Jaibas, Maz...
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When a good stew "guisado" presents itself, I'll go for it. Home made restaurant soup is sometimes fantastic. But then there are truly pitiful areas - one is Lazaro Cardenas. We'll sit out on the street at a taqueria and people watch. They serve boiling hot consome in translucent glasses - free. And Pollo Feliz is indeed one of the girl's favorite stops. Pilar and Dalia have outgrown the play area, but they'll diddy-bop on their cell phones and watch Hermalinda and Yvette scamper and scream. The Arrachera at Pollo Feliz ain't bad, and the restaurant in Lazaro has chicken cooked over hardwood as well as chicken cooked over charcoal.
Zihuatanejo. The family adores the restaurant across the street from the now-closed US Consulate in Ixtapa. It's about 100 meters opposite the direction toward Zihuatanejo. The food is inexpensive if the comida corrida is chosen (a selection of which), and the place has tablecloths, chairs, and a great atmosphere. Brenda normally sneers at foreign tourist grade restaurants but this one caters to Mexicans - haven't seen a single extraneous in there yet (!). We just have not found a sit down restaurant to the family's liking in Zihuatanejo. Expensive, or noisy to the extreme or the food was not prepared very well. I could sure use some tips. The twin beach enramadas are OK on playa ropa. But even the grandchildren are adamant about their Ixtapa preference. The family Oohs and ahhs over Ixtapa landscaping but then freaks about about various resort prices -- we book straight to the beach in Zihuatanejo after eating.
Any time there are lagunas, estuaries, and other brackish water near a beach there will be no-see-ums. San Blas and Boca de Iguanas are notorious for weapons grade flesh eaters.
I get Pennyroyal Oil in the states. One single solitary drop applied to a hand can be spread over all exposed flesh (especially needed up to the knees). Works better than 100% DEET as far as repelling tabanos, a biting fly that irridesces blue in sunlight (horseflies are much larger and green). Of course the 100% DEET comes from the USA. I bring about one liter's worth, as well as a half liter of pennyroyal oil. It's primarily used to prevent Dengue for the grandchildren.
But it's definitely south of Manzanillo for me. I like a guarantee of shirtsleeve weather after dusk and I spent too many of my early years shivering as far south as Barra de Navidad. When I can stand around a night campfire, see my breath and need a heavy coat it takes the bloom off the rose.
All this food talk has made me hungry. I have a local Oaxaquena restaurant here in my northern "Medical Abode". Cafe de La Olla, huevos revueltos con nopalitos, a bolillo dorado, and authentic frijoles de La Olla are calling me...
Zihuatanejo. The family adores the restaurant across the street from the now-closed US Consulate in Ixtapa. It's about 100 meters opposite the direction toward Zihuatanejo. The food is inexpensive if the comida corrida is chosen (a selection of which), and the place has tablecloths, chairs, and a great atmosphere. Brenda normally sneers at foreign tourist grade restaurants but this one caters to Mexicans - haven't seen a single extraneous in there yet (!). We just have not found a sit down restaurant to the family's liking in Zihuatanejo. Expensive, or noisy to the extreme or the food was not prepared very well. I could sure use some tips. The twin beach enramadas are OK on playa ropa. But even the grandchildren are adamant about their Ixtapa preference. The family Oohs and ahhs over Ixtapa landscaping but then freaks about about various resort prices -- we book straight to the beach in Zihuatanejo after eating.
Any time there are lagunas, estuaries, and other brackish water near a beach there will be no-see-ums. San Blas and Boca de Iguanas are notorious for weapons grade flesh eaters.
I get Pennyroyal Oil in the states. One single solitary drop applied to a hand can be spread over all exposed flesh (especially needed up to the knees). Works better than 100% DEET as far as repelling tabanos, a biting fly that irridesces blue in sunlight (horseflies are much larger and green). Of course the 100% DEET comes from the USA. I bring about one liter's worth, as well as a half liter of pennyroyal oil. It's primarily used to prevent Dengue for the grandchildren.
But it's definitely south of Manzanillo for me. I like a guarantee of shirtsleeve weather after dusk and I spent too many of my early years shivering as far south as Barra de Navidad. When I can stand around a night campfire, see my breath and need a heavy coat it takes the bloom off the rose.
All this food talk has made me hungry. I have a local Oaxaquena restaurant here in my northern "Medical Abode". Cafe de La Olla, huevos revueltos con nopalitos, a bolillo dorado, and authentic frijoles de La Olla are calling me...
