Balicora (cont.) Mar 15, 1979. He returned to the village late afternoon and had coffee with Dominguez and his wife and son Manuel. Continued on to village of Buenaventura for supper. Then drove 20 mi or so to the ranch of a friend of Jose where he spent the night. Rancho Ojo Caliente - Ernesto Peal, Ranchero Mar 16, 1979 The present rancho of 21,000 hectares is a remnant of one of the great old haciendas of Chehaluma (originally 250,000 hectares). The Peal family acquired the property fairly recently. The main haceda building is an enormous one story adobe house with countless rooms (all big), all floors tiled, but the place now in shabby repair. I was alone in a bedroom with three Simmons beds, but one window missing, Persian curtain board busted, no electricity. In the morning we cooked our own breakfast since the cook was on vacation. Some vaqueros also made their own breakfast in the big kitchen. After breakfast we walked around the grounds for an hour or so. There is an elegant hot spring in the yard, boxed into a concrete pool from which it overflows and runs across the country for half a mile. Water is potable and is pumped up to a tank, from which pipes serve all the buildings of the rancho.