An Interview With Debbie Baker, The Property Girl, and Jeff Musto, The PV Kid about Rental Properties in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Also, Puerto Vallarta Celebrates Mexican Independence Day with a 4 Day Celebration. 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 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! Today we will be talking with two great guests, both are involved in the property rental business here in Puerto Vallarta but first, what’s happening this week September 12, 2017. Puerto Vallarta Celebrates Mexican Independence Day [caption id="attachment_1482" align="aligncenter" width="605"] Independence Celebration Puerto Vallarta[/caption] We will be celebrating Mexican Independence Day in Vallarta, and in true Mexican fashion, it’s not just one day, we will be celebrating for four days! Things start up Thursday, September 14, Day of the Charro, which is celebrated in many parts of Mexico. Charros are regal horsemen and women who dress so stylishly, and ride so smoothly, they are the elegant Cowboys and Girls, on Mexico. https://youtu.be/QbdmyKiMi60 Charrería is a tradition, which runs in families just like Tía Maria's famous mole sauce or Don Raul's special pozole. In other words, it is passed from one generation to another. As soon as a tot can seat a horse by himself, he becomes a little charro, or if a girl, she becomes an Escaramuza. Don’t miss this if you are in town. The charro wears a special suit. There are five styles of charro outfits and each one is chosen for its own occasion to be worn. One can go from a working suit through dressy, formal, elegant and all the way to black tie. The color doesn't seem to be as important as the cut of the suit. The jacket is snug fitting and comes only to the waist. Some are heavily embroidered. The pants have slim, tight fitting legs; the dressier ones have gold or silver buttons running down the outside length of the leg. The suit is worn with a short boot, not the regular cowboy boot. A bow tie, white shirt, and the typical big brimmed, embroidered sombrero tops off this costume. Vallarta’s City Center will host a parade of associations of charros that ride on horseback through the main streets along the malecón as those along the route, applaud their horsemen and women parading through town in their fine outfits. If you want to learn more about the traditions of these horsemen and women, The Charros, I have a link to an article written back in 2007 by [caption id="attachment_370" align="alignright" width="212"] Drama & Diplomacy in Sultry Puerto Vallarta[/caption] Jenny McGill, and if you have listened to my older podcasts, you would know that Jenny McGill and her husband Howard, moved to Puerto Vallarta in 1973, where she served as the U.S. Consular agent for 14 years. And she wrote the book, Drama and Diplomacy in Sultry Puerto Vallarta. A book all Vallarta lovers would really enjoy. Interesting to note here, but Pamela Thompson of Healthcare Resources Puerto Vallarta, a friend of the show who talked with us about medical tourism in Puerto Vallarta in an earlier episode, does lots of the things that Jenny did back in the day. I bet Pamela could write a pretty juicy book herself, but she would probably have to move out of town forever. Never