Zihuatenejo has changed a lot in the thirty years since we first visited this town on the Mexican Riviera , about 200 miles north of Acapulco . Its dirt streets have given way to asphalt, and the few sidewalk vendors have given way to hundreds of shops and boutiques. And the population has exploded.

It was just about thirty years ago that the Mexican government developed the beach resort of Ixtapa , only ten minutes north of here. (They developed Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula at the same time ) . The growth of Ixtapa has ... (more)