Tanzania has the 90-kilometer-long Mount Kilimanjaro trek and the United States has the Pacific Crest Trail, stretching 4,270 kilometers from north to south.

Danáe Kótsiras, a Mexican of Greek extraction, lives in the peaceful Jalisco provincial town of Etzatlán.

Sometime in 1989, I received a curious request from a friend in Colima:

On October 27 the state of Jalisco marked the first Primavera Forest Day, which has  the aim of reminding citizens every year of the natural wonder lying directly west of Guadalajara.

Each year some five million hawks, eagles, kites and other birds of prey in Canada and the United States take off for warmer climes to the south, passing through a long, narrow corridor in the state of Veracruz, between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Gulf of Mexico.

An inexpensive butane lighter can indicate the underground presence of invisible, odorless, carbon dioxide and can help cave visitors avoid death by asphyxiation.