A discussion with Pamela Fuller, a Trip Advisor Destination Expert About The Road Between her Home in Lake Chapala, Mexico and Puerto Vallarta. Also her reviews on some Vallarta Luxury Resorts and Time-Shares. Also Taxi and Uber Tensions Heat Up, Restaurant Reviews and more!   Subscribe on iTunes & Leave a Good Review Listen To The Podcast 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 listing to is performed by Alberto Perez, the owner of the La Palapa Group of Restaurants. Those are La Palapa, The [caption id="attachment_196" align="alignright" width="300"] La Palapa, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico[/caption] El Dorado Restaurant, and at night for dinner The El Dorado transforms into the ever so romantic Vista Grill with those dramatic views of the Los Muertos Pier all lit up at night in beautiful colors. Of course, at La Palapa you can enjoy that same view of the Los Muertos Pier all day long for breakfast, lunch or dinner, seated with your toes in the sand right at the water’s edge. It’s so romantic, it’s so Puerto Vallarta my friends! La Palapa as you know if you have listened to my previous podcasts is one of the oldest restaurants here in Puerto Vallarta. It was built in 1957, and I would like to tell you the story and give you a little history of La Palapa, but I’m going to have Mr. Alberto Perez come on the show, and tell us in his own words, about the history of La Palapa, in an episode coming up in January, so stay tuned for that, but as for today, we have a special show but first, what’s happening in Puerto Vallarta this week, the 5th day of September, 2017. Got this email from listener Cheryl from the great white north, and she writes…. Barry, I just discovered your podcasts. As a 7 month resident of PV  I find your topics so informative. It makes me homesick to come back to paradise. Friends have been going through the effort to become temporal or permanente residents. I think it would be very helpful to do a podcast on this process. We have heard there are changes going on at that office and it is very confusing what we should do when we start my permanente visa in November.  Maybe you could interview someone in immigration? Also, we love the Emiliano Zapata market. Have you ever had breakfast there in the hallway? Eat with the friendly locals. Something everyone interested in the people and culture of Mexico should experience. Thanks again for keeping us up to date in our absence from PV. Can't wait to return! Well Cheryl, great suggestion, actually, a couple of great suggestions for show topics and guess what..? Your wish is my command Cheryl. I’ve got [caption id="attachment_287" align="alignright" width="227"] Lic. Felix Zarate[/caption] a show coming up in just a few weeks with one of my favorite Abogados in Mexico, Licencia Felix Zarate, and Felix will give us the scoop on immigration and he will go through the process with us. He will discuss residency, temporal and permanente, all that jazz. We will talk about immigration. I also am going to talk with Felix about Ejidos. About buying Ejido land. Did you know, that the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in 1992 opened the door to the sale of Ejido land to foreigners? Well, it did. And with NAFTA being rewritten and renegotiated, do you think that something will be changed in that portion of the law? We’ll ask Feliz that and more, so stay tuned.   Interview With Felix and Rhonda Zarate I got another email from Listener Reggie and he writes…among other things… My first visit to Puerto Vallarta was in May 1989. I was 20 years old. And I had only had two semesters of Spanish language classes in my then young lifetime.  A college buddy and myself drove over 2,000 miles (one way) from Florence Alabama to Puerto Vallarta. It took four days. And we o