Sooner or later everyone spending any significant amount of time in this region will travel along Guadalajara’s Avenida Mariano Otero, the busy thoroughfare linking the towering Niños Heroes monument with the western beltway (periferico), passing important landmarks such as the bright yellow Millennium Arches, Expo Guadalajara and Plaza del Sol (the city’s first shopping mall).

Retirees aren’t the only ones who have found a home away from home on the shores of Lake Chapala. 

Is Lake Chapala the area in the world most likely to harbor a retiree with some astonishing stories to tell?

Juan Diego Allera and his wife Laura love their goats – all 25 of them. And since ten of them are pregnant, there’s more on the way.

“I’ve been young but you’ve never been old,” quips the curmudgeonly judge to his ambitious 25-year-old secretary.

With the abundance of animal lovers that seem to populate Lakeside, newcomers Jeff McGaver and Steve Berg shouldn’t have any problem fitting in.