I'm a travel writer who made Puerto Vallarta my home base for 5 years. I feel safe in Mexico and can't wait to get back.

Writer Meagan Drillinger in Mexico Courtesy of Meagan Drillinger Puerto Vallarta has been travel writer Meagan Drillinger's home base for five years. As she heard from loved ones on the ground about this week's cartel violence, she longed to return. Like any place anywhere, Puerto Vallarta and Mexico are larger than their worst moments, she says. After cartel violence erupted across the Mexican state of Jalisco this week, images and videos of burning cars and buildings, shuttered storefront...