Journal Hafner, M.S. 1977 En. Route: La Cumbre, Oaxaca to Hotzorongo, Veracruz. 11 August (cont) La Cumbre for a brief breakfast said "adios" to the old senora and her daughter and drove east from la Cumbre on Hwy 175. The Hwy is in good shape but very many curves. We climbed the Sierra Madre Oaxaca and entered cloud forest. The area was extremely wet... streams, waterfalls, etc. We noted many bromeliads, palms, ferns, Philodendrons, etc. Very beautiful, dense forest. We picked-up 2 rhinoceros beetles along the road. 1200 arrived Tuxtepec after a 4 1/2 hour journey from la Cumbre. We are now at a much lower elevation and it is quite warm and humid. The majority of the country in this region is planted in sugar cane and/or pineapple. Much less corn. The ground seems to be permanently wet - puddles of rot water everywhere. We were planning to trap at Tuxtepec which is a known Heteromys locality, but since so much of the land was currently under agriculture, we decided to drive north to Hotzorongo, another known Heteromys (and Heterogeomys) locality. We drove north on Hwy 145 and stopped