The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
El Río de la Pasión forms part of the border between Jalisco and Michoacán. It rises from high in the hills of Mazamitla and flows due north to the little town of Tizapán where it pours into Lake Chapala.
A pioneer in the archaeology of western Mexico, Otto George Schöndube Baumbach, died on December 30, 2020, at the age of 84.
I live in the small community of Pinar De La Venta, perched on the edge of the Primavera Forest on the western fringes of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
For years my neighbors in the little community of Pinar de la Venta – located eight kilometers west of Guadalajara – have enjoyed a series of events called Jazz in the Woods: good music, good company, good food and drink, all organized by a friend named Michael Boudey, who was born in France.
El Nevado de Colima is the sixth highest mountain in Mexico. Its peak is 4,260 meters above sea level.
A few days ago, a quiet but feisty Australian named Caroline Durston passed away in Ajijic, and with her ended the story of Rancho Rio Caliente, for many years one of Mexico’s most famous spas, the favorite of cognoscenti from New York to Paris.
Skateboarding was invented in Santa Monica California in the 1950s, when surfers – frustrated on days without good waves – came up with the idea of putting wheels on a board so they could “surf the streets.”
