Zirahuen, Michoacan: Like Prozac in the air
A short kilometer from Santa Clara de Cobre, on the way to Ario de Rosales, a bust of a young Lazaro Cardenas nods toward Zirahuen. "I'm sort of proud of this road, now that it has been improved," I re...
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Where to stay in Santa Clara del Cobre and Erongaricuaro
HACIENDA MARIPOSAS
We weren't sure what to expect as we wheeled into Hacienda Mariposa's entrance, greeted by German Shepherds. Of course, we'd visited the website, http://www.haciendamariposas.c...
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Santa Clara del Cobre and Erongaricuaro: Mexican craft towns on Lake Patzcuaro
James Metcalf, Stephen and Maureen Rosenthal and Vasco de Quiroga have a lot in common. Each was a foreigner who came to Michoacan's hills and dales surrounding Lake Patzcuaro, married art with commerc...
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Visit to Patzcuaro
I’d like to share a few thoughts having just returned from a brief visit to Pátzcuaro, made for the purpose of sizing it up as a possible retirement venue. Let me start by saying that Pátzcuaro is unquestionably one of the greatest places to visit that exist in Mexico. As a travel destination, it’s difficult to beat, with great hotels and restaurants, a lively upbeat zócalo, the lake, and more crafts than you could take in during a six month stay. read more
Mexico's extraordinary arts and crafts
Living here in Mexico offers me so many opportunities to be thankful. How did I ever fit a career into my life? My days are filled with friends, with travels, with bridge, with doll making and writing ...
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Michoacan, Guanajuato, and crafting dolls
Are you curious about the title? I thought I'd share my last month with you. Two of my lifetime friends came down for a visit. They stayed ten days and we took a four-day whirlwind tour through Patzcua...
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Trip report: Morelia, Michoacan
Posted by Fernando on August 31, 1999
My family spent nine weeks based in Morelia in June-August 1999. This was our third summer in Mexico, with the summers of 1997 and 1998 in Oaxaca and Xalapa...
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Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - February 1999
Back Issues:
1999 - January
1998 - January - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - ...
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The ghost of Coalcoman
By Julie Black © 1999 All Rights Reserved.
I'm not what you would consider one of those mystical psychic types, well versed in the mumbo jumbo of the supernatural. But I'm not a skeptic, either. All ...
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"El fantasma de Coalcoman"
Para Julie Black © 1999 Todos Derechos Reservados.
No me considero de esas personas muy místicas y psíquicas, bien versada en la jerga de lo sobrenatural. Pero tampoco soy escéptica. Solo puedo ac...
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The Majestic Monarch Butterfly
The amazing phenomena of the Monarch butterfly migration is with us again. At the end of summer hundreds of millions of monarchs fly an incredible average of 1,800 miles from the United States and Cana...
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The cow killers: Memories of Michoacan in 1948
Luis Dumois' article about Volcán Paricutín released a few vivid memories of my teenage years in Mexico. In 1948 I was incredibly lucky to visit the volcano of Paricutín in its full and frighte...
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Paricutin, the volcano in Michoacan
On February 20th, 1943, after a couple of weeks of ominous earth tremors and strange underground sounds, the Paricutín volcano in Michoacán, erupted among prayers and rogations, fire displays and int...
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The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
The following is a story concerning an ancient lake that covered a large area of the State of Jalisco and spread into Michoacan and Aguascalientes. This map is a visual portrayal of the lake superimpos...
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Monarch butterflies in Mexico
Early in 1980, exploring various off the beaten track areas of Mexico looking for potential geography fieldwork sites, one fateful Saturday morning found me standing in the main plaza of the small Mich...
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Celebrating the Days of the Dead: The Heart Speaks Clearly in Michoacán
The Days of the Dead, celebrated throughout Mexico, coincide with the Christian All Souls and All Saints days, November 1 and 2nd. People who have died in the past year are remembered, their pictures p...
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Patzcuaro: the soul of Michoacan's Meseta Purepecha
Texas has the Alamo, New York has its Empire State Building, but only Michoacan has Patzcuaro. Every travel poster extolling Michoacan has a shot of fisherman wielding the famous butterfly net. Look closely, and you'll spy a tiny cone-shaped island, topped by a statue of Jose Maria Morelos, hand reaching to the sky. That's Patzcuaro's jewel: Janitzio.
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Mexico Highway Maps, Driving from Nogales to Uruapan
Hi, my family and I are traveling to Mexico in a few weeks. We are entering through Nogales and traveling to Uruapan, Michoacan.
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