coffee harvest time

Picture of my host mom and cook.

The last week I have been traveling-working like a bandito as I now am temporarily in charge of purchasing thousands of pounds of coffee, processing it, and with help of Growers First pay a higher price for their coffee than all the other buyers.

The coffee market is difficult, as market demands and futures prices play a huge role in the actual price. I have been hiking, sitting on buses, driving, you name it.. It has been raining like crazy so are biggest problem is quality, we were blessed enough to find a facility in a dry town where we will start trucking coffee from the cloud fores areas to dry coffee.

I have been blessed with another infestation of deer ticks, which afte 4 days am still finding some. Yesterday I found one in my toes, dumped some cane sugar alcohol on it to disinfect and then brilliant me, took a match and burnt the tick, well I was NOT thinking the alcohol would burn, so I have a nice burnt foot now.... well .... Im heading out tonight at midnight to travel to the coast 5 hrs, where I will drive a 3 ton truck into the muddy, dangerous, nasty jungle roads to the coffee towns-7hrs, then back on monday.. so pray for traveling safety

wheelchair delivery in Pluma Hidalgo

Large patio with coffee drying

Far Left//We were fortunate enough to have 4 wheelchairs given to us before we went to the mountains and we were able to find 4 sick or handicapped people who were bedridden and were able to provide them with the means to get out of the house and start to their rehabilitaition process.

Lake Atitilan

beach pictures in lake Atitlan Guatemala, where we spent a few days there kayaking and riding horses.

Guatemala

Mike and Jason in the rustic volcanic saunas of Xela, Guatemala..

The steam saunas are awesome, they are an 1.5 hr walk to the top of a mountain where a family built a rustic stone building over top of volcanic steam vents..