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Adventure Travel Job Searching in Puerto Vallarta Mexico

Turner January 16, 2012 Job Searching, Mexico, Travel Job Tips

A brief update to my adventure travel jobs search in Puerto Vallarta. There seems to be plenty of odd jobs here and there, but I am looking for a little more substantial work while traveling…at least long term. I haven’t been scammed, drugged, or been asked to invest in a new beach taco stand yet, but things are looking promising. …

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Gay Puerto Vallarta activities

Feeling a little Gay and need a Vacation? Puerto Vallarta can help.

Turner January 9, 2012 Destinations, Mexico

I finally made it to Mexico in each of my dream travel job. There was a plethora of choice. Do I start in the legendary Cabo San Lucas? Known for its ever flowing jello shots and picturesque rock formations? Or do I skip to the spring break haven of Cancun, where body shots flow like Cabo’s jello shots and America’s …

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Instagram post 2150698287005762281_15999239 Sitting on the holy river the Ganges, you can feel that there is something special about it. Perfect place to reflect before setting off on my first ten day, silent mediation retreat. I have never done anything like it before — so I am feeling a bit mixed emotions of excited and nervous. Here we go!
Instagram post 2149473037240769143_15999239 Trying to set up one of those ‘Instagram’ shots all the cool kids are talking abut these days but all these vastly more interesting than me people kept getting in the way. Maybe I should photoshop myself out? Regardless, India has some happening mosques, tombs and palaces. To say it is buzzing with life would be an understatement.
Instagram post 2147962623793046639_15999239 So many temples, tombs, and street eats not sure where to start and end in India. So far, must say, the tombs are the most decorative I think I’ve ever seen.
Instagram post 2146581517684519429_15999239 Sunset from above the Ganges — India’s holiest river. People flock to ceremonies during sunset and bathe in the river to cleanse themselves and feel the spiritual vibes. Farther along the river in Varanasi, the cremated remains of loved ones are set off in the river. I hesitated to swim in this, but Rishikesh is the top part and cleaner 😐. But to swim in Varanasi 🤔☠️
Instagram post 2144881150383014259_15999239 ‘Soul not for Sale’. Seems fitting, paradoxical, amusing and heaps of other emotions - in India. Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself - but you can’t do either, if you’ve already sold yourself. Hit the return counter. Find quiet. Or complete chaos. Maybe finding your soul in stillness is perfect in a place that is 100% in your face chaos. That road leads to India.
Instagram post 2143696560888862645_15999239 I don’t always spend my days working on tea plantations, but when I do...I eat weird red goo and spit it like a local. Sri Lanka is famous for tea. They transformed their entire coffee industry to tea when a fungi outbreak happened and now they are one of the world’s biggest tea producers. The tea pickers sometimes pick up to 22 kilos (45 pounds a day) of tea leaves. They make $4-7 a day and work their asses off. It is beautiful office no doubt, but the work is repetitive as hell and grueling. However, the ladies picking are some of the nicest people. They kept feeding me rice and tea as I worked. Glorious. If you find yourself in Sri Lanka, and want to see where Sir Lipton started it all, check out tea plantations around Ella.
Instagram post 2142875885525535023_15999239 The architecture of tombs in India. Not palaces. Tombs. Like the Taj Mahal, this one has pools, ornate carvings, interesting arches...and unlike the Taj, no lines or tourists.
Instagram post 2142232045500475973_15999239 India is 100% chaos. But within that chaos there are random moments and colors that are off of the spectrum. You never know what you will see or smell or experience. And frankly, it will be different every time depending what you choose to focus on. I was chilling on this wall — admiring the strange blue. And this women strolls by. The moment stood still. Hard to capture it with a picture but when you capture the moment it just pops.
Instagram post 2140780059462506135_15999239 Can’t get enough of the train life in Sri Lanka. I’ve been on quite a few train rides in my day but I’ve gotta say the Kandy to Ella train ride is unreal. This Harry Potter style, nine arch bridge, is just beyond that route —in Ella. Pure magic.
Instagram post 2140013123736861865_15999239 That time I went stilt fishing in Sri Lanka. A job I was excited to dig into, only to discover it is mostly only done now for tourists by somewhat shady characters. I wanted to find that old man to mentor me. That classic fisherman who was in it for love of the game. But alas, it was not to be. Job bust. I didn’t catch much and my co-workers were a bit sketch, which wouldn’t be a first. Apparently ‘the fishing season’ is in two months when the waters calm. Maybe that’s true. Or maybe more tourists come and that fuels it. Regardless, I need to up my fishing game.
Instagram post 2139347929352117382_15999239 I visited Sri Lanka between monsoon seasons. The rain came and went daily. Unpredictable. I was riding my moto around when I got caught in a down pour. All locals scurried looking for cover, but were also calm at the typicalness of life in a tropical place. I snapped this shot of this old woman crossing the road, with an attitude of: is that all?
Instagram post 2138670040000744758_15999239 The Lighthouses of Sri Lanka. I’ve always had a thing for light houses. I think of those cool little ones littered around New England’s coast. These in Sri Lanka are incredible too. Especially this one on Point Dondra. White picket fence. Palm trees. No one in attendance. Perfect 💯
Instagram post 2137937524620991345_15999239 I was a bit skeptical of the beaches in Sri Lanka. It was between seasons. So rain or more rain it seemed no matter where you went. I caught a few nice days though. This is ‘secret beach’. Which actually isn’t much of a secret, but it is set on a beautiful point and made for some great drone action😍.
Instagram post 2137798840328258326_15999239 I think my favorite place in the whole of Sri Lanka. Green everywhere, mountains with random hikes, waterfalls and home to the most epic train ride — Ella is that sweet lady you don’t want to leave, but eventually have to. The one that got away. I forgot my camera battery...again. So these are shot with just an iPhone but the green space speaks for itself. 😍
Instagram post 2136383494035698773_15999239 The distortion of Instagram is endless. Everyone snaps so many of the same pics in the same places. Girls in ball gowns with 100% humidity out. Dudes posing in the oddest of positions. So weird. But also funny. So many of these beautiful places are crammed with others, but you would never guess that from the ‘perfect’ vacation shot. ‘Travel like me’ they say. Well to that I say no. Travel like you. Watch the sunset with your eyes, not your lens. Take your own shot. I took this one down the way — away from the pack. No ball gown. I forgot it at home 🤷‍♂️😉
Instagram post 2135754460792726409_15999239 Once again — struck the ‘journey is the reward’ note. On my way to a beautiful beach and I stumbled upon this fish market/marina. Colorful Sri Lankan fishing boats, grumpy fishermen and the pungent smell of marine life. Loved the colors and banners each boat adorned.
Instagram post 2134955892708295763_15999239 Sometimes you just stumble upon your favorite places when on your journey to ‘the attraction’. You never know. I spent days going to temples, waterfalls, exploring markets—however, it was always the random side road, that chance encounter that made the trip worthwhile and more rememberable. Here is a random dock I found inside An archeological site with a fisherman and his son fishing. Just a normal Sunday. Everyone else was in a rush to get to the giant Buddha statues, but the real gem was just the moment in silence on a dock.
Instagram post 2129208656795968311_15999239 Tea plantation country in Sri Lanka. I’m obsessed. I spent 6 hours cruising on a moto through the weaving lanes and tiny villages littered throughout tea country. I thought Southeast Asia was the perfect motorbike locale, but Sri Lanka is not to be underestimated. I shot this with my drone. In the process of shooting it, some local kids came up and were more than curious. Village elders looked at me and smiled. The friendliness here is contagious.
Instagram post 2128440649349980044_15999239 When you travel Asia a bit - temples, Buddha statutes and seeing tourists dressed like circus performers, lose their shock value. You are in the travel zone. But sometimes you find something that makes you feel a bit different. These statutes - some 16 meters high, that’s 52 feet for the imperial lot - are carved into the rock. Huge boulders. I never saw the shrines the Taliban blew up in Afghanistan, but I reckon it was something like this. Once you get past my sunkist mug you see a lone woman paying respects. It’s Sunday. People wear white, heathens black - guilty. But everyone who comes to see Buddha statues or temples in white is for real. They mean it. It’s not a passive sport. So I can’t bring back what the Taliban destroyed, but I can admire these artworks from the 10th century and remember how much our lives are but a spec of time.
Instagram post 2127728359130561206_15999239 That moment when you pretend to be an Instagram model but remember you are an awkward 35 year old dude and almost fall out of the train. I have to hand it to the Insta-ladies who wear ball gowns in inappropriate places, it’s a lot of work. Anywho, maybe the most beautiful train ride I have ever taken from Kandy to Ella Sri Lanka. Mountains, green, green and more green. Smiling people, tea plantation workers, friendly locals, endless stream of tourists looking for the perfect Insta shot, that tic-tic-tic of an old train humming along. It’s all kinds of love. They don’t make train journeys like this anymore.
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