After visiting some local markets, our Trip Experience Guide, Salvador, had our driver take us to
the farm of a friend of his. This was an alternate activity he was offering us since the Cruzpata School, sponsored by Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT) we were going to visit was closed on this date. While the husband was out of town, we did get to meet his lovely wife, Maria, her first born son, David (pronounced Daveed) from her first husband who is deceased, her youngest son Ben Hameen, and her beautiful daughter Sarah. Maria had inherited the farm from her mother.
The kids went to school, but helped out with farm activities. Maria and her husband have several parcels of properties. They have five cows, two steers on the farm we were visiting. They also had bee hives and made and sold honey which was offered to us as a snack. They harvested a ton of potatoes, fava beans, and other agricultural products, and were breeding rabbits and guinea pigs.
Sarah said she wants to work in the cosmetic field (i.e., make-up,) though some of the women travelers in our group said she was pretty enough to be a model. When Salvador asked if she had a boyfriend, she blushed, smiled, and stood silent, to which my late dad would say: “There’s your answer.” All in all, it was a pleasure meeting this handsome and cordial family, and how they have been afforded several opportunity to grow the family business.
