They motored to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to wait for the weather to improve--and ended up buying a house there.

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Just north of Puerto Vallarta, the luxurious Mediterranean-style resort is set between tropical mountains and the glistening Banderas Bay.

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Last week I sat next to a table of four Americans in a restaurant just outside of Puerto Vallarta.

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Escape to Fiesta Americana in Puerto Vallarta, and you will ace an immersion course where teacher's pets are encouraged to coast.

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"It's the same as buying on an Indian reservation, " says Brock Squire, the owner of Coldwell Banker La Costa in Puerto Vallarta.

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Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of the environmental group Rainforest Action Network, died Wednesday while caught in the surf in Mexico near Puerto Vallarta.

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In addition to most domestic flights in the U.S. and Canada, the food-for-purchase program will apply to leisure destinations such as Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands, Continental spokeswoman Christen David said.

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So far, unlike the tourist city of Acapulco to the south, Puerto Vallarta, a beach city in the state of Jalisco, has largely avoided the cartel and street gang related violence that is affecting many other pockets of Mexico.

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While she was married to Richard Burton, whom she famously met on the set of Cleopatra while still married to crooner Eddie Fisher (who had left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for her making them the Jen-Brangelina of their day), Taylor bought a parcel of land in what as then a lonely undeveloped stretch of beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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