July 1999
Zenzontla, Jalisco, México

Top: little four-year-old Sarahy on the patio.  Her parents let Yvette, Rodrigo, Mike and I sleep and bath at their home during our stay in
Zenzontla.  Really nice people.  At the time the town had just got electricity and this family was one of the first in town to have electrical outlets.  
It was cooler outside and there wasn't room inside the house for all of us so I slept on the patio or in the yard most nights.  
I had alreay stopped caring about all of the tick, chigger, horsefly, and mosquito bites around my ankles and wrists
We had to watch out for scorpions when we slept on the patio as well as checking checking for them in our shoes in the morning.
Sarahy Contreras (MS University of Madison, Wisconsin), our field leader, would come by before dawn to get us.
Bottom: This was the trail from the house to the river where we got our fresh water.  Some of our mist-netting plots were on the other side of it.
We had to carry buckets of water up this steep rocky trail. The water was stored and boiled (of course to prevent amoebic dysentery) before use.
We also cooled off after a long field day or did our laudry in the river.