Living outside the lines
Experiencing people, culture and food outside your home comfort zone is like coloring outside the lines.
Carlos looks for ripe coffee berries
Making Tortillas de Maize
The Cocina Original of Hacienda San Lucas is the most inviting place on the property -- to me, that is.
Coffee Berries
Carlos shows us coffee berries
We line up to wait for our caballo
Carlos takes great care to find just the right horse for each of us. I was assigned Luna, a nice horse who put up with my inexperienced riding.
Coffee Machines
Carlos brought us to the coffee production facility and took great care to teach us all about it. Unfortunately, without a pad and paper, I am short on details.
Coffee drying drum
One of the buildings on the finca
Explaining the process
More information on the process
Pink flower
The mighty Mayan Jaguar!
Learning about beans
Mare
Cattle on Finca el Cisne
Making tortillas
Cacao
Cardamom
Cardamom plant
Ripe coffee berry
Dried coffee beans
Dried Coffee Beans
Waiting to go riding
Carlos and Cacao
Cattle
On the porch
Berries on the plant
Close-up coffee berries
Coffee production plant
