Mapa Jeff Draws Colorful Maps of Puerto Vallarta Which are Works of Art
Jeff Draws Maps Portraying the Diverse Neighborhoods and Surrounding Villages and Towns near Puerto Vallarta and Along the Bahia de Banderas
Mapa Jeff Can Customize Your Puerto Vallarta Map to Highlight Your Home or Business
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Hello fellow travelers, welcome this episode of the Puerto Vallarta Travel show. I am your host Barry Kessler, and I am just so happy to be introducing you to my favorite vacation destination, and maybe even yours, Puerto Vallarta Mexico.
That music you were just listening to is performed by Alberto Perez, the owner of the La Palapa Group of Restaurants. Those are La Palapa, Puerto Vallarta’s Oldest Restaurant on the famous Los Muertos Beach, and The El Dorado Restaurant and Beach Club right next door so you can enjoy that fantastic view of the Los Muertos Pier all lit up at night in beautiful colors, or during the day in its grand splendor for breakfast, lunch or dinner, seated with our toes in the sand right at the water’s edge. It’s so romantic, it’s so, Puerto Vallarta my friends.
Contact Information For Mapa Jeff Cartography Mapping Puerto Vallarta
- Website For Mapa Jeff: https://mapa-jeff-cartography.square.site/
- Facebook Page For Mapa Jeff: https://www.facebook.com/mapjeff/
- Prints For Framing Puerto Vallarta: https://mapa-jeff-cartography.square.site/#zpBnwk
- Shop For Your Map of Puerto Vallarta: https://mapa-jeff-cartography.square.site/s/shop
This week on The Puerto Vallarta Travel Show you are in for a real treat. You will be meeting Jeffrey Obser, he goes by the name Mapa Jeff, and it’s a name that suits him best
because Jeff creates maps. Maps of Puerto Vallarta and the surrounding areas which are works of art, suitable for framing, maps suitable for folding and carrying around as well and he’ll even customize a map for you for your Vallarta home or business but before we get to Jeff, Let’s see what’s happening this week in Puerto Vallarta the 31st of October, 2021…happy Halloween everybody.
I’ve spoken at length about Dia de Los Muertos Celebrations in Mexico over the years, and I have a link to one of the most downloaded episodes I’ve done in the shownotes where I talk about what happens if you have your very own Dia de los Muertos right here in Puerto Vallarta. We talk about repatriation of bodies to countries of origin, undertaking and burial costs, cremation and scattering of ashes and stuff…check out that link if you haven’t already in the shownotes.
Speaking of Halloween even though the government and health officials called off the normal celebrations, like the big processions, the graveyards will be open with a 70% capacity allowance due to the covid protocols.
The giant calaveras are all around the Malecon, many of the local restaurants, bars, nightclubs, all are open so plenty of opportunities for a Dia de los Muertos celebration somewhere. Maybe have your face painted Calavera style. You know…the skull…thingy.
Cross Border Express CBX
I just returned from 8 days in Puerto Vallarta, and if you have been following my plans…took a van to the US Mexico border ,and used a facility called CBX or Cross Border
Express, quickly and easily park your car, and cross the border by pedestrian bridge from the US, into the Tijuana Airport. I plan to give a blow by blow description next week, but let me say that yes, I’d do it again. I plan on going again just 29 days from now. There were a few surprises that you will hear about next week, but the one thing I wanted to find was, do you need proof of vaccination or a PCR or Antigen covid test to re enter the US, and the answer was no. No stick up the nose this time down.
So next week I will have the meet and greet we had at Nacho Daddy as well as a special feature on the Cross Border Express or CBX.
The Puerto Vallarta Outdoor Markets Are Starting Up for the 2021-2022 Season
Getting back to Puerto Vallarta, the Markets are getting to go back online again. Beginning the first week of November the Olas Altas Market, Marina Vallarta Market, The La Cruz, all the markets will be up and running again. I’ll try to get a list of them with hours and locations in the shownotes.
artWalk Vallarta 2021-2022 Wednesdays 6-10pm
Also, the Artwalk begins Wednesday evenings as well from 6 till 10 until April. Look for a link to their Facebook page in the shownotes for participating galleries at www.puertovallartatravelshow.com
- ArtWalk Vallarta Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/vallartaartwalk
Things are getting back to normal in Puerto Vallarta as far as the little things that make this place so wonderful… The actors are back at the amphitheater on the Malecon…
entertaining the families. The food venders, the street performers…all of them are coming back. The tuba vendors, artists, cotton candy and toy carts. Everybody is back. Even Rodolfo, the blind singer from Guadalajara is back, singing and walking the Malecon. It’s going to be a very good high season.
And while we in the US Canada and Europe are busily contemplating the third and forth jab of the stuff that works so well you need boosters for the boosters…according to this article in the Vallarta Reporter…Mexico is about to declare victory over the rona….No boosters for you!!!
Vaccination against Covid 19 in Mexico will end This week
Lopez Gatel, the Tony Fauchi of Mexico says Vaccination against Covid 19 in Mexico will end This week….October 26 2021…No mas no boosters….
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https://puertovallartareporter.com/lopez-gatell-anti-covid19-vaccination-ends-next-week/
And I have a link to that article in the shownotes….Hummm just another reason to move your ass to Mexico.
You can sense it on the streets that everyone is almost done with the rona. I’d say I witnessed about 20% of the people on the streets masking up. Masks are still being put on when you enter establishments but for the most part…it looks like the people are done with the whole covid thing and are looking forward to enjoying the common cold and flu like in the old days….good times!
Talking about the covid thing, the weirdest thing happened to me on the way to the farmacia…
I was doing some last minute souvenir shopping, looking to supplement and beef up my covid kit at home, ya know picking up some horse medicine and the corresponding antibiotic, and I was looking for a specific farmacia because they had a special discount for Monday’s, and I poked them up on my google maps app and up comes a Google alert along with a warning chime asking me to follow the alert by pushing accept to read. I’m looking at this thinking why would this pop up like this? So, I try to sidestep the process a couple of times and it is still asking me to read their alert. Finally it gave up after I told the person in the listening tube I didn’t want to read the alert.
Has this happened to you? Try it when you go to buy your horse de-wormer and let me know what happens…I’d be interested.
Rambo Turns 69 Years Old
Rambo’s Just had his birthday, He’s 69…If you see Edgar you will notice his new moustache and beard, and he’s trying to grow a pony tail to tie it all together in the back. Anyway, Rambo is looking great, and you can usually see him dancing across from the Margarita Grill on Basillio and Pino Suarez.
I had a chance to take a video of the progress on the Insurgentes Bridge and I will embed it in the shownotes. It’s a slow go but maybe…maybe it will be done in February…
The parking structure is open on Juarez, so even though they have diverted northbound traffic on to that Juarez Bridge while the repair on the insurgents bridge takes place, they were able to open that big parking structure right there on the Malecon, relieving traffic in the romantic zone ahead of the high season.
Busses are still not crossing the bridge into the romantic zone and still only enter and exit using the libramiento.
Roads are still being repaired and bridges rebuilt up in the colonias of Paso Ancho and Benito Juarez. It’s a long slog still for lots of people who have to walk till the roads are repaired to accommodate cars and trucks and busses.
Great Interviews Coming Soon on The Puerto Vallarta Travel Show
I had a bunch of great interviews including a meet and greet with JR at Nacho Daddy, upstairs which was really nice. We’ll play that next week so stay tuned for that.
I finally met friends who are listeners in person. I met Hillary and Zoie, the two trailblazers who I had on just after Vallarta reopened to tourism. I really met them in person in the flesh. Also, I met my buddies Chad and Trish. Trish will tell us what it’s like jumping out of an airplane in an upcoming episode.
Oh, I met Listener Jim who was too busy to talk, but he asked me about taking the Antigen test for the trip out and wanted to know why I suggest the Airport over the local CMQ…so let’s talk about that for just a second….listeners Trish and Chad told me they used one of the San Pablo labs around town for just 600 pesos or $30 US with same day results. That is the best deal in town just because you don’t have to pay for a taxi to and from the airport.
I’ve beet to Vallarta many times during October but this was one of the hottest Octobers I can remember. It was hot, humid and the air was still…no breeze. It was so hot my sweaty ass slid off the plastic toilet seat at my condo…it was so hot I could barely roll a joint because my hands were so sweaty I couldn’t keep the sticky gummed part of the paper dry during the process. It was hot…but just at the end of the week, by Monday last week I could feel a bit of a change in the air.
Even with all the heat I had the greatest sailing trip with Leslie Hyland, the scuba instructor we had on last week. We even had some wind so we were able to cut the engines and got some sailing time in with our snorkeling. A beautiful day on the bay. I made sure to bring a soccer ball and coloring books for the kids in El Nogalito.
A big thanks to Dean Regher for setting up some really great interviews for me, to Polly for hooking me up with a horseback ride you will love, a big thanks to Marcia Blondin who introduced me to the young man who runs Vallartaenlina.com, a Spanish language newspaper that I use for my information, I’m going to have Humberto on in a few weeks. He’s a very interesting guy.
Oh, and Julie Guerrero introduced me to a medium. Did you know Vallarta has her very own medium? That’s right, and I will be introducing you all to Kennedy in the coming weeks as well so.. This was a very good trip for interviews I must say.
I have a couple of emails from guys with the same first names…Carl…maybe they are the same guy who knows but they are upset with me…you know…after 20 months they want to blame me…a podcaster for killing people and endangering the lives of innocents……I will get to their emails next week but right now…let’s get to our guest, shall we?
Mapa Jeff Drawing Maps of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
I found Jeff on the internet. Sounds like a modern love story doesn’t it?
Google Map Created Showing Colonias of Puerto Vallarta
I was looking for a map of the different Colonias in Vallarta, which I found by the way. I found a very good one but while looking I stumbled over a few maps that brought me back to my childhood.
As a kid growing up in Southern California we vacationed a lot at popular lake resorts. Lake Arrowhead in the local San Bernardino Mountains was just a couple hours away, and my parents loved the Lake Tahoe area where My uncle had a lakeside cabin, and I
remember seeing these whimsical colorful maps, that were almost cartoonish in character, but works of art that lovingly detailed the streets and points of interest of these vacation spots from my childhood. These Puerto Vallarta maps were like those. So I followed the maps to a website called MapaJeff Cartography and that’s where I met Jeffrey Obser.
Jeff makes maps. He’s a romantic, a bit crazy like me about a certain place….which is really why I love this guy…he’s a big thinker and I believe he’s a bit of a genius.
I asked him how I could get him on the show, and he did try to meet up with me when I came down in August, but the flights just weren’t available but he did say he would get hold of me then next time he was heading down to LA from Chico California, about a 7
hour drive, and he did. So we arranged for him to come to my house to record his story from the comfort of my home studio. So let’s go right now to my recording studio in my house…in Simi Valley California, and let’s meet a cool cat who loves Vallarta so much, he’s
studied each and every street, alley and driveway….let’s meet Jeffrey Obser…you will know him as Mapa Jeff Cartographer…mapper of paradise, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico….
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- Website For Mapa Jeff: https://mapa-jeff-cartography.square.site/
- Facebook Page For Mapa Jeff: https://www.facebook.com/mapjeff/
- Prints For Framing Puerto Vallarta: https://mapa-jeff-cartography.square.site/#zpBnwk
- Shop For Your Map of Puerto Vallarta: https://mapa-jeff-cartography.square.site/s/shop
Thank you Jeff. I Have links to his website. All of you restaurant, hotel and homeowners will want to have Jeff make you a custom map featuring your place. I know I’m getting one…or two…
What a great holiday gift or birthday or even a housewarming gift for your new Vallarta neighbor.
The maps are just beautiful check them out!
Okay that should do it for this week.
Next week, stay tuned for more on the ground reports from Puerto Vallarta Mexico, with travel tips, great restaurant and excursion ideas and more. Until then, remember, this is an interactive show where I depend on your questions and suggestions about all things Puerto Vallarta. If you think of something I should be talking about, please reach out to me by clicking on the Contact us tab and sending us your message.
And remember, if you are considering booking any type of tour while you are in Puerto Vallarta, you must go to Vallartainfo.com, JR’s website and reserve your tour through
him, right from his website. Remember the value for value proposition. His experience and on the ground knowledge of everything Puerto Vallarta in exchange for your making a purchase of a tour that you would do anyway, you’re just doing it through him as a way
of saying thank you. It costs no more than if you were to use someone else so do it. Really. And when you do take one of these tours, email me about your experiences. Maybe you can come on-board and share with others what you liked or didn’t like about the tour. Again, contact me by clicking on the Contact us tab and sending off a message. Don’t forget his maps, his DIY tours and his revitalized Happy Hour Board. I have links to all of those in the show notes.
And once again, if you like this podcast, please take the time and subscribe and give me a good review on iTunes if you would. That way we can get the word out to more and more people about the magic of this place. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Remember I made it easy
for you to do just that with each episode I create. But if you haven’t been to my website, you really need to have a look there. I have the links to the places we talk about, interesting pictures and the more all right there in my blog-posts and show-notes for
each episode of the show so check them out for sure if you haven’t already all-right? All right.
Thanks to Mapa Jeff. Jeff…I love your story, I have all the contact information in the shownotes at www.puertovallartatravelshow.com. Get your beautiful map suitable for framing or folding. These are works of are and they are so reasonably priced you need to treat yourself and buy one today. Find them at Mapa Jeff…google Mapa Jeff Cartography and you will find all his wonderful maps of the place you love, Puerto Vallarta. Or just go to www.puertovallartatravelshow.com and visit the Mapa Jeff blogpost.
And thanks to all of you for listening all the way through this episode of the Puerto Vallarta Travel Show. This is Barry Kessler signing off with a wish for you all to slow down, be kind and live the Vallarta lifestyle. Nos Vemos amigos.
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