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Learning About Tequila at La Cofradia

While in San Jose del Cabo, Matt and I had a chance to learn more about mezcal. We decided that it was only fair to go someplace to learn more about Tequila. After all, all tequilas are mezcals, right? Where better to learn about tequila than in Tequila?!

We were told about Hotel Boutique la Cofradia from a nice man in San Jose del Cabo. It’s basically a distillery with a tasting room and four hotel rooms on the property. We were not sure what to expect, but when we arrived we knew that we were someplace special.

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Escape to Yelapa

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After leaving Mazatlan, Neeley and I made our way to southern Puerto Vallarta.  Our plan was to spend one night in a hotel so we could pack everything we needed into our small backpacks and then catch a water taxi from Boca de Tomaltan to Yelapa the following morning.

The five-hour drive to Puerto Vallarta was quite nice. It was even nicer when we discovered the banana bread sellers on the side of he road in San Blas where we stopped for lunch.

We made it to Puerto Vallarta in the early evening. Unfortunately, the hotel was completely forgettable. Luckily the staff was wonderful and we were only staying for one night.

In the morning we drove fifteen minutes from our hotel to the small village of Boca de Tomaltan where we arranged to park our car and take a water taxi to Yelapa.  Yelapa is accessible via vehicles, but takes about four hours, versus twenty minutes via water taxi from Boca, or forty-five minutes from Puerto Vallarta.

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WiFi down, the bane of the nomadic lifestyle

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We are currently in Guanajuato Mexico right now, and lost WiFi at our apartment that we are renting.  So our uploads are slowed down by trips to the coffee shop.

We have a backlog of pictures and stories from Yelapa, Tequila, and Guanajuato to post up in the next week.  We will be leaving for San Miguelle de Allende this Sunday, and hope to be back to updating.

-Matt

(PS, the picture is the heart of a blue agave plant, used to make tequila. We had a wonderful tour at Cofradia Distillery earlier this week, more about it in our post.)

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Mazatlán, briefly

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I will admit that everything that I knew about Mazatlán I learned from watching the Love Boat.  In planning our trip from La Paz to Yelapa (more about Yelapa in another post), we decided to stay just a couple of nights in Mazatlán. Originally it was going to be one night, but I read a few comments on a blog about the pretty downtown with a square and a church, so we decided to stay for two nights instead so we could visit the sights. We stayed for three nights because I fell for Mazatlán.

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