Rural Mexico

OBRAJUELO, Guanajuato-- During the morning hustle and bustle, we noticed women all over town carrying small pails. We later found out that those pails were full of reduced-price milk. It turns out that the town's rich landowners who still have a working hacienda in the middle of town sell milk to the national milk company Alpura. Every week, the landowners reward their workers with cheap milk before they sell it to the big milk chain.

Guadalupe, the community's representative, laughed as she watched us huff and puff our way up the rocky, steep hills that led to her home. The climb, it turned out, was worth every bead of sweat. The views from her house were breathtaking. I know I've said it in this blog before, but this trip reaffirmed my thoughts that it is in the hidden, out of the way, rural towns in Mexico where the most unexpected treasures are found.