Belize is a midpoint between Mexico and Central America, a chance to finish adapting from home life to road life, before plunging in to some real traveling.
November 17: Night Noise, Settlement Day I’ve had a restless enough go of it the last two nights that I decided to complain a little. Although there are not enough people here to make a truly difficult noise pollution situation, it can be bad enough. The noise at night and early morning comes from two [...]
Monday, June 21: Braids, Snakes and Dogs Well, I’m not sure the Caribbean braids are an unqualified success. They’re certainly cooler, but I have to be very careful and wear my hat all the time in order not to get a checkered sunburn on my scalp. Tony and Therese’s 5-year-old daughter said my hair looked [...]
October 8: The Quadrille, or, Lewis Carrol Ain’t Got Nuthin’ On Us! I offer here, an entire, unedited article from the online version of the Belize Reporter Newspaper – one of four national newspapers in the country (there are no local newspapers). Two of them are produced by political parties, two are not. This one [...]
December 21: Is it really Christmas? Several of you have had the experience of trying to get into the Christmas spirit in a tropical clime. Just doesn’t work for me. I put up my Christmas lights and got out my presents, wrapped and sent off some others (but not soon enough I fear), helped Tony [...]
November 12: The Brits; Furniture Therese and I just got back from a trip to the capitol, Belmopan, to talk to the British High Commissioner (a super-ambassador) and his staff about developing a web site. It looks like we’ll get the job, partly because the Brits want to show up the Americans (that is, the [...]
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Late, late, late. WeeCheng is behind schedule, and so he had to rush through Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. 