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Flip-flops optional. Wow, where has the time gone? Apparently gone to the travel bug, as I've been home and gone several times since December. Check out my other blog for updates on December and January travels. The big news is that I'm writing articles, really travel blogs, for Examiner.com as the Denver Travel Examiner. Make sure you join me at Examiner.com! Click here to visit my archived articles, including the current one.

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Flip-flops, sunscreen & swimsuit...yes, I'm off to Mexico. I leave Wednesday for Puerto Vallarta, my first visit to this formerly sleepy fishing village. I'll be one one of the first to walk through the doors of a new Riu, the Riu Palace Pacifico, located in Riviera Nayarit (Puerto Vallarta).

This Riu will offer 445 guestrooms, four specialty-themed restaurants, five bars and two conference rooms. The family-owned resort chain currently offers two hotels (1,250 rooms) in Puerto Vallarta. Riu Palace Pacifico will be the third RIU hotel in this Pacific coast resort city.

Also in 2008, Riu Hotels & Resorts will break ground in a new area of Mexico: the coastal...

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