Adventure travel and North America's flawed vacation system.

The highway that connects Puerto Vallarta to Manzanillo weaves irregularly down Mexico's coastline, looping in and out of Colima's fractured mountain-ranges like a sloppily braided strand of hemp. Our taxi shuttered South along the dust-bleached stretch of road. I'd been in the country for 10 minutes and had already gone from parched to damp.