We are getting settled here in the jungle.  Our tents are all set up and excavations began on Monday.  This morning Cenzo and David packed their hammocks and some buffalo jerky in their backpacks and left for their first overnight away from camp with Don Anatolio and their new spanish teacher, Gustavo.  For those of you who might not be familiar with Don Nato's name, he was with Bill when Bill discovered the murals here at San Bartolo.  He went out into the jungle and found a fruit called "pinuela" when Bill was passing out from dehydration, probably saving his life.  Prior to working with Bill, Don Nato worked with Ian Graham for decades finding and documenting Maya monuments and inscriptions here in the Peten for the Maya Corpus of Hieroglyphic Inscriptions at Harvard University.  Beginning in 2010 he has been taking Cenzo and David out for long walks to teach them how to be in the jungle - which plants are edible, and which animal tracks are which, how to find your way home.  Today they are hiking out to the river 7 1/2 miles away to put up two of Davids wildlife cameras.  You wouldn't know it by looking at him or watching him work but Don Anatolio is (at least) 76 years old.  He has been working in this jungle since he was fourteen. I love that he is teaching David and Cenzo who are twelve and thirteen.