“Alejandro! Mi amor.” is the greeting I get from Lora Loka (Crazy Lara) when I arrive at her restaurant in La Manzanilla near Bara de Navidad in Jalisco, Mexico. I walk into the delicious smells of chilli rellenos and seafood enchiladas that permeate her tiny kitchen. “You are coming tonight to my Pre-Valentine party?”…
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The Sombrero Hunter
Are you crazy? asked my guide Gabino Barrera. We were sitting in the jungle, in the mountains high above Puerto Vallarta. Where we had gone to hunt for ‘Sombrero de Palmas’ trees. After breakfast in D’Limon K_fe we had taken one of the bouncy local buses to the hills east of the Zona Hotela. We…
