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“La Gente del Agua” by Dr. Eduardo Williams is a 416-page book, in Spanish, representing 20 years of study of the “fishers” – as he calls them to avoid gender prejudice – who live on the shores of lakes Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro in Michoacán. 

Nowadays every other renovated hacienda is advertised as a spa even though there may be no mineral-rich spring anywhere near it, and, of course, the rates for hotel/spas can be sky-high.

“I’m looking for a little-known obsidian deposit at a place called Las Pilas,” said geologist Chris Lloyd. “Want to come along?”

Several amazing caves close to Guadalajara will be presented to the public during a series of talks I will give at the Tec de Monterrey university, beginning in February.

In 2011 I described the Seven Falls of Tonala as “one of greater Guadalajara’s best – but least known – natural beauty spots.” 

“Foreigners often complain about Mexicans shooting off cohetes (rockets) for certain feast days,” said my neighbor Jorge.