For the last night of our trip, we stayed in Mascota, a small town in the mountains about halfway between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. The road actually used to "end" at Mascota, and has only recently been completed all the way to P.V. The road is narrow and winding, very pretty and mountainous, but was definitely still a work in progress, as we drove through quite a few landslide areas on our way to P.V. This hotel that we stayed at in Mascota was built in the mid-1800s and used to be a religious refuge--it had a lot of character, and you could imagine pretty easily what it would have been like to be staying there in the 1800s!
