Finca Alaska

Today we made our way back to the Santa Ana region of El Salvador (Jason and Christian) to visit the farms Alaska, La Illusion, La Suisa, and Ernesto's new farm Dos Andes.  We started our day off with a little cupping of the new crops.  The cupping was quite informative and enjoyable too.  The day was spent bumping around on rough roads, checking out small high quality farms.  The state of the farms were in great shape, with recently completed agoveo pruning techniques.  I am pretty worn out, as the week has been taxing both physically and mentally.  To start, we cupped over 115 coffees this week, which required a huge amount of mental effort.  Further complicating this for me was my ridiculous stomach, which has been anything but cooperative.  I guess a bunch of us are going out tonight to get something to eat, and celebrate our last night together.  Tomorrow will be a resting day, and then it is the big trip home on Monday, and then back at it with a pile of stuff surely waiting for me on my desk.