La Casa de Salud Huichol is located in Zapopan and was founded 38 years ago by Rocio Echevarría as a place of refuge where members of Jalisco’s Wixárica people could find lodging and food while accompanying family members receiving treatment at Guadalajara’s Hospital Civil.

In the column I wrote for  October 16 edition, I described two inoffensive arachnids: the vinegaroon and the tarantula, either of which you might easily find creeping across your dining room floor if you happen to live in Mexico.

Over the course of some 35 years, I have written descriptions of more than 100 hikes to out-of-the-way sites in what I call the Magic Circle around Guadalajara, within which all five of Mexico’s ecosystems just happen to converge.

If you live in rural Mexico or occasionally pass the night in a rustic cabin or campsite, you are bound to run into creeping creatures that you may never have seen back where you grew up.

Every year near the end of the rainy season, I do my best to urge people who live in Guadalajara and its environs to head for El Cerro del Colli –

The Primavera Forest’s Río Caliente is one of Jalisco’s most popular natural phenomena.