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Puerto Penasco
The pictures pretty much say it all. Phil and Katie flew out and the four of us drove down to Las Palomas for a long weekend. It was glooooorious.
There’s some more pictures here. One of these days we’ll go visit there and just not come back. Soooooo relaxing.
¡Vacaciones en Mexico!
Summer and I spent last weekend in Rocky Point a.k.a. Puerto Penasco, Mexico at the Las Palomas resort. The resort is really cool, people buy the condos, furnish them in their own taste, and can rent them out through the resort or on their own (or both). Summer found one online that didn’t cost an arm or leg and off we went.
We chose not to venture off the resort because, really, there wasn’t any reason to. The beach was right there, there were folks to bring you food and drinks on the beach, at the pool, to your suite, and you could even swim up to the bar. Why leave?
The beach there wasn’t like anything I’d ever seen. The different between high and low tide was crazy with low tide revealing tons of areas of rock and tide pools that were fun to explore.
We made nice with some of the wildlife and borrowed some sea shells.
The swin up bar was great, as the owners of the condo we rented told us, the carne asada tacos and quesadillas were delicious.
And the scenery was pretty much spectacular.
Nothing crazy and insane, but it was very, very relaxing. Summer wisely suggested we bring the pool rafts she has and they were key; I think handfuls of other visitors that saw us super relaxed in the lazy river, at the pool, or floating in Sea of Cortez will be bringing their own floatation devices when they return. We did rent a jet ski from one of the random guys on the beach which was fun as well. The place was pretty empty so we could pretty much go up and down the coast as fast as we wanted, which we certainly did.
It’s also crazy how many resorts are going up in the area. This was the only one open on the area of beach we were at, but you can see from the pictures that there are ones going up all around it, including the enormous second phase of Las Palomas itself. Forget buying a house, how about a condo on the beach of Mexico? This is only a three and half hour drive from Tucson too! Even on highway 8 coming in, there were hotels and stuff going up everywhere. I have a feeling that if we go back as soon as in the next year even, it’ll look very different. Oh yes, we will be back.
