This didn't start out to be such a long article, but once I saw the photos of the great times we had this past week in Mexico with four friends from here in Dana Point, I just couldn't stop. (If you' re too busy or get bored easily, and prefer a shorter story of our trip, just go to http://www.worldisround.com/articles/343935/?e)

We love cruises, and we've taken lots of them. In the past several years we've taken one every year down the coast of Mexico. This one was just for a week, and we spent a day in each of three Mexican towns - Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta.

We traveled on the Dawn Princess, maybe the best large ship we've ever taken, and highly recommended. We enjoyed good weather and calm seas all the way, plenty (too much?) fine food and great company. What better way to spend a week in March?

Here's where we went, and here's what we did.