Mexico Westbook: A Road and Recreation Guide to Today's West Coast of Mexico

by Tom Miller, Carol Hoffman

This is not just another guide book..." The purpose of the Mexico West Book is to help you break the pattern of visiting Mexico by asking a travel agent to book you into one resort or another for a long weekend or a couple of weeks. The authors also aren't telling you to lug a backpack from a $3.00 hotel next to the bus depot to another $3.00 hotel a half-hour's walk from another bus depot. Rather the authors want to help you drive on an independent itinerary to meet the people and see the country as it really is. They will tell you how to locate reasonably-priced accommodations and meals wherever you go. They also want to introduce you to Playa Ventura and the beach beyond El Pabelón; to Braulia at her roadside restaurant where you can buy only one of a kind beer and only by the liter; a comfortable little 300 year-old inn on a side street in a colonial town high in the Sierra Madres. Along the way the authors'll point out fishing and camping possibilities, deserted beaches and awe-inspiring visitas, craft centers and fiestas, historic cities and burgeoning new resort centers. The authors hope to show you that it's OK to go beyond the lobby of the resort hotel, to step out of that tour bus, and never look back.

420 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

Tom Miller has been writing about the American Southwest and Latin America for more than three decades. His ten books include The Panama Hat Trail, which follows the making and marketing of one Panama hat, and Trading with the Enemy, which Lonely Planet says "may be the best travel book about Cuba ever written." Miller began his journalism career in the underground press of the late '60s and early '70s, and has written articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, Natural History, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, Regla.