“In May I’m taking a group of botany and biogeography students to El Bosque de Maples,” Professor Miguel Muñiz told me some months ago. “Would you like to come along?”

Two years ago a relative of mine had his credit cards and money stolen at Walmart by a well-dressed man who supposedly helped him clean mustard from the back of his shirt. I discovered then that “The old mustard-on-the-shirt trick” is well known to every reader of the Guadalajara Reporter, but unknown to many Mexicans, no matter how well-read they may be.

If you were to ask the average person—anywhere in the world—for the name of a Mexican cave—you would probably get in reply, “that cave with the giant crystals,” in reference to La Cueva de los Cristales connected to the Naica Mine 300 meters below the surface in Chihuahua, now celebrated thanks to extensive coverage by NatGeo and Discovery channel.
 

We have successfully mailed copies of our book “Outdoors in Western Mexico” to people living overseas, but never without a certain amount of tragicomedy, mystery and surprise, which all too often accompany a visit to Correos de México.

April 23 is the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and the same date was chosen by UNESCO to be World Book Day.

In September of 2015, Volaris, Mexico’s second-largest Airline, added San José, Costa Rica to its list of destinations you can reach nonstop from Guadalajara.