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Down in Vallarta

Posted on 12. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Hollywood star power created Puerto Vallarata as a tourist destination. The transformation of the sleepy fishing village of 2,000 souls began on November 11, 1954, when Mexicana de Aviación airline inaugurated its Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta flight. One of the first visitors was American movie director John Huston, who built a home here in the small cove of Las Caletas where he lived until [...]

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Strange Therapy

Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Demi Moore loves getting her blood sucked. During a recent interview with David Letterman, the movie actress admitted that she had travelled to an Austrian spa to have her hemoglobin eaten by “highly trained medical leeches.” The hungry little creatures were first placed in her belly button. “You feel them bite down on you, and [...]

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The Natives Are Restless (part 9)

Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Another spectacular day; another mesmerizing drive. The more you travel in British Columbia, the more you come to appreciate the province’s stunning natural beauty. The last leg of our journey finds us motoring south on Duffy Lake Road from Lillooet to Whistler. The winding highway veers past cascading rivers, glacier-capped peaks and turquoise lakes. We make several stops to snap [...]

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Loaded for Bear (part 8)

Posted on 04. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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We are retracing our route back down Highway 97, headed for Lillooet. The landscape of rolling hills, lakes, river valleys and grasslands is improbably studded with huge boulders. Called “erratics,” they were deposited by the melting glacial ice sheets. Erractic is a good adjective to describe the activity in our van. I think all this driving [...]