Puerto, Dear 2008 Journal Tapulo to Fourta Anterrea, Chipas, Messier March 30 We woke up early and had breakfast in Rayon. cl ordered mondongo, which turned out to be a tripe stew with large bones and gelatinous matter- not food tasting, but odd in texture and more than cl wanted to deal with at 8:30AM. We then drove from Rayon past Pantepoc, looking for good forest but finding none. We stopped in an area with a small patch of pine and liquidambar forest 2.7km W of Pantepoc (17.18491N, 92.06498W [WGS84, 6macc.T], 1711m elev.). We opened about 15 bromeliads in 30 min and found 4 B. rufescens. We drove back towards Tuxtla, stopping at several sites in pine and liquidambar forest around the high point on MX-95 between Jutotal and Puerto Cate (17.02180N, 92.84088W [WGS84, 5macc.T], 1754m elev.). We opened at least 20 very good bromeliads in this area for ~40min, but found nothing. The forest seemed secondary and some of the bromeliads were in isolated trees, but cl still expected to find something. We drove E from Puerto Cate towards Zimijovel looking for forest, but turned back at El Bosque, which failed to live up to its name. The only good forest results was on the other sides and ridges of the impressive Cerro de Bolaa- would be great to sample there someday. We drove 1.2km up a road towards Los Angeles and then parked on a side road and walked up a trail to a remnant liquidambar and oak forest. Some living trees were left, but the under-story had been cleared. Working to the sound of chainsaws from 17:00-17:40, we opened ~20 bromeliads and got 6 B. rufescens (17.04259N, 92.76370W [WGS84, 7macc.T], 1538m elev.). We gave up, drove back to Tuxtla and spent the night there.