After breakfast, we all piled into The Jungle Bus. It is a splendidly painted vehicle. Perfect for its territory! Here, it is parked in the yard outside of Mr. and Mrs. Bo’s house.

Mrs. Bo showed everyone how to make corn tortillas the traditional Mayan way, from drying and husking the corn to rubbing the kernels off the cob. To save time, she had already heated and soaked the corn overnight, so another batch would be ready to put through the hand mill.

It’s tough grinding those kernels down. Most people took a hand at forming the tortillas that Mrs. Bo then cooked over the comal, a traditional metal plate that goes over the fire. Think of it as a griddle.

As the last were cooking, Mrs. Bo’s daughter peeled some hard-boiled eggs and put them on the table with a wonderful tomato mixture that we had with the warm tortillas. Yummm!

We then headed just down the road to the cooperative mill, and while others were photographing the ladies grinding their corn by a simple belt-powered machine, I found some tools over on