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Gay and Lesbian Travel

Amos Lassen | Little Rock, Arkansas | 12/04/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

""Bump! The Ultimate Travel Companion: Mexico"



Gay and Lesbian Travel



Amos Lassen



Alluvial Filmworks is responsible for some of the best new gay and lesbian movies lately. Now they give us "Bump!" a DVD recording of the very successful travel series which began broadcasting on Canadian TV three seasons ago. It not only tells you where and how to travel, it entertains immensely.

Charlie David, who many of us will recognize from Here! TV's "Dante's Cove" takes on a tour of gay Mexico in a way that even those who have traveled south of the border have not experienced. We go to Cancun and Puerto Vallarta as well as Mexico City and the outskirts. In Puerto Vallarta, we relax on the beaches of gay paradise and visit an island gay resort, ride horseback, go shopping, eat, eat and eat and finally dance the night away in a really great dance club.

Cancun with its gay friendly attitude is both luxurious and tropical and very, very beautiful. For lack of a better word, the gay beach is divine and the dining is beyond comparison (at least to Arkansas). We visit a spa and have a wonderful time and swimming with the dolphins is a treat. Of course, there is wonderful shopping.

In and around Mexico City is also great fun and the tour there includes a visit to the home of Frida Kahlo and a drop in to the gay neighborhood before taking off to visit an Aztec pyramid.. Charlie lets us witness a meeting he has with lesbian author Paulina Gomez and fashion designer Ernesto Hernandez. We also get to meet the famous drag queen, Tito Vasconcelos.

This is the Mexico that gay dreams are made of and Charlie David is the dream of a guy to take us on tour. Watching the DVD is one of the best vacations I have ever had.

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