Disembarking from the Carnival Splendour, our arrival into Puerto Vallarta was as confused as our arrivals have been anywhere else. We did know which bus to catch and we found the bus stop after only 5 or so minutes walking, however the fact that we were now in Spanish speaking territory came as a bit of an unexpected shock to us (albeit totally expected!). We hadn't really prepared for this moment and it definitely showed. Our attempts at rudimentary communicat...

Seeing as we went to America by boat we thought it would be great to leave by boat as well (we also thought it would be a good way to skip all of the Mexican border towns that people keep warning us about!). So we got on the Metro in Los Angeles and took the train all the way to Long Beach for only $1.50 - who said you HAD to have a car in LA? - where we boarded the Carnival Splender cruise ship heading to Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta. After 4 months travel...