Paget’s Belize Journal #7
June 30: Leaving Dangriga
I was to leave on Tuesday afternoon about 2:00 and had lots
of things to take care of – finishing up a project at the office,
packing all the hot sauce and belongings, sorting out the tips,
etc. So when I left for the office at 8:00am I asked at the desk
to make sure – you have taken care of getting me and my baggage
to the airstrip, right? Oh, yes, mum, everything is arranged.
Okay.
At Naturalight Productions, I worked hard to get the flyer
done, tried mightily to make the press release into something
interesting and completed as much research as I could on uploading
software to ZD Net for evaluation and possible sale. I was a
bit taken aback when Therese ordered pizza at 10:20 – for a
final lunch celebration – but she turned out to be right. The
pizza came at 12:15. It was good though. But this did make the
timing even tighter.
I rushed back to the resort, packed up and went down to the
desk to hand out envelopes, pay the bill, say good-bye and get
my taxi. Yes, they said, Mr. Marin would go and get my bags and
be ready in just five minutes.
In less, maybe three minutes, someone came from the back to say
Mr. Marin was ready with the “walking taxi.” And indeed
it was. Mr. Marin had all my bags loaded into an orange wheel
barrow (which matched his fetching orange tennis shoes) and started
off down the path. I followed him. After a short amble through
the fields (dodging those surviving blue crabs who are by now,
extreeeemly cross) we arrived at the airstrip and I checked in.
Mr. Marin and the young man in the Maya Airlines shack moved
my bags from the wheel barrow to the wagon that serves as a luggage
cart. I tipped Mr. Marin $2 and he ambled off down the path again.
Simple, inexpensive and no problem with construction projects.
On this flight I almost got to be the co-pilot since we
were all full, but someone else beat me to it. Also, I’m pretty
sure you had to be able to get into the plane without the little
steps if you wanted to sit in front. Next, one day in Belize
City and then home.
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