At the best restaurant in Amatlan - La Goya....owned by the previous mayor, who lost the last election to a PRI guy who has done time for work in the marajuana trade. We racked up a 55 dollar bill and we gave the waiter a 5 dollar tip. Don Carlos had a stroke over that.

A shell (caracol) that Uncle Pedro found on his land on the ridge, what we know to have been a favorite haunt and likely burial spot for the pre-columbian inhabitants. We're a good ways from the ocean, maybe 90 miles from Puerto Vallerta. as a bird flys. Anyway, the original inhabitants got this somehow, and they must have thought it pretty special. Remarkable it is still in such perfect condition. Probably 500 years old, but I suppose it could also have been left up there by someone in 1850. We'll never know. Carbon dating would probably help.

Pedro and Rosalina's house.

Tia Rosalina with some cocoa "cakes" for making hot chocolate. She roasts the cocoa beans and grinds them with cinnamon and sugar, puts them in a little mold, lets them dry and wraps them in wax paper.

The church at Etzetlan; on the way to Amatlan.

Chuy putting tile down in one of the rooms upstairs. Pretty warm work.

His sister Mirasol, our cousin, and her daughter Camilla.