“I just bought a Suzuki Jimny,” announced my friend José Luis Zavala. “and I need to evaluate its four-wheel-drive capabilities. Where should I take it for a good test?”
“You have bought the ideal vehicle for exploring the outdoor sites of Western Mexico,” I told Dr. Zavala, who teaches Biology at Guadalajara’s Autonomous University (UAG). “The Jimny uses very little fuel and my friend Flaco claims he has yet to encounter a destination it can’t reach.”
Both Francisco “Flaco” Arreola and José Luis Zavala happened to be free the following weekend, so I suggested we visit the circular pyramid of El Saucillo, located in the foothills of Tequila Volcano at the end of an eight-kilometer-long dirt road, much of which I would definitely classify as “bad.”
The very badness of that road, in fact, is what doomed El Saucillo as a tourist attraction along with a nearby bird-watching site called UMA Agua Blanca. I described these sites in volume II of our book “Outdoors in Western Mexico,” but I wonder if even one reader ever made it there.
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