Points, Dear 2009 Journal The original field notes for this trip were stolen, along with my backpack and camera, on Jan. 15 in Guatemala City. I have rewritten them from memory. Jan. 5 Chichicastenango area, Depto. El Quiché, Guatemala Ted Papenfuss and I arrived in Guatemala on Jan. 3. We were joined yesterday by Jim Patton, Carla Cicero, Javier Castillo and Zach Hannah from the MVZ and Carlos Vasquez, Sergio Perez, Rosa Jimenez, Jacob Conde and Andrea Cabrera from MUSHNAT and the Univ. de San Carlos. Today we left Guatemala City and drove to Los Encuentros, then took the road to Chichicastenango. We stopped on the way down a deep canyon just before Cuchil in a nice oak forest with lots of bromeliads. Javier Junger found B. cuchumatana here a few weeks ago. We opened bromeliads for about 1 hour, and I quickly found a juvenile B. cuchumatana. Jim Patton, Ted, Jacob and Carlos searched, too, and Jim get 2 [illegible] adults and a subadult, all in bromeliads. The forest floor was relatively dry, so conditions were good for bromeliads. We had limited time, so he stopped searching and went on to Huehuetenango, where we spent the night. Jan. 7 Finca Ascension, a road from Malambojch to Rio Seco, Depto. Huehuetenango Yesterday, we drove from Huehue to Malambojch. We are staying at a Swedish school/community center run by a man named Per Anderson. We drove east about 10km on the road to Rio Seco, passing through only cleared areas or secondary pine forest before arriving at some good cloud forest right along the road. We