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What it’s like to live seaside in Lo de Marcos, Nayarit (Road Trip Part XIV)

by Yucatan Times
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Follow Chuck Bolotin, from Best Places in the World to Retire, as he, his wife, and two dogs drive through Mexico in a large, white van.  This story describes life in the little Pacific seaside town of Lo de Marcos, an hour north of Puerto Vallarta, where they find several things they didn’t expect.  Would you be surprised?

We had loved our six weeks in the little coastal village of La Ventana, in Baja California Sur, on the Sea of Cortez.  Now, as our tour continued, we would have the opportunity to experience another little village, Lo de Marcos, in Nayarit, about an hour north of Puerto Vallarta, on the Pacific Ocean.  While Baja was majestic, with mostly barren, expansive landscape, harder edges, and gorgeous contrasts, Lo de Marcos was vivid, infused and saturated with color.  In Lo de Marcos even the air was thicker and carried with it the smells of the jungle.  Lo de Marcos had a more obvious density of life than Baja. Baja had vast emptiness to appreciate, punctuated with stunning vistas, while Nayarit was filled in.

Lo de Marcos is a small place.  From our rental home…

Click here for the full article.

(PHOTO: Chuck Bolotin)

(PHOTO: Chuck Bolotin)

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