Chapala

Instead, I imagine that as a mercreature, she has more in common with Michi-Cihualli, the fish woman who dwells in Chapala, the Mexican freshwater lake where I spent some of my childhood.

A slightly lower share chose the Jalisco region, home to Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara and Chapala.

The ice pops are delicious, Cappello says, but he’s more drawn to their molds: long, tapered wands of stainless steel made for decades by a family of metalworkers in the lakeside town of Chapala, an hour away.

Now, Byron said, the biggest question he gets isn’t who redid the former El Chapala space - it’s RedHouse Architecture, a favorite of local restaurants and breweries - it’s whether he plans to get heaters to keep the patio open year-round during COVID.

Ava Wilson, 72, and her husband moved from the Denver area to Lake Chapala, Mexico in 2008, after losing most of their savings in the stock-market crash.