Some 18 years ago, my wife and I climbed a steep barranca (canyon) wall on the far side of La Toma Valley, about three kilometers northeast of Tequila.

In 1943, a mini-volcano two meters high popped up in the cornfield of one Dionisio Pulido of the village of Paricutin, Michoacan, shaking the earth with tremors and fiercely blowing fireworks into the sky.

Los Negritos are boiling mudpots, located next to a deep, clean lake in Michoacan, only 17 kilometers southeast of Lake Chapala, near a pueblo called Villamar.

Three Canadian guests at Rio Caliente Spa in the Primavera Forest outside Guadalajara contacted us with an unusual request to go hiking on top of the Tequila Volcano.