January 7: Bits and Pieces About Life in Belize As my time here begins to wind down, I’ve been thinking about the major social characteristics and influences that I’ve written little or nothing about. The short list is: Lottery, Drugs & Crime, Asian Merchants, Government Indifference/Corruption and Sexuality. Well, and Death. And maybe Coca-Cola. That [...]
December 31: Some Christmas Experiences I had quite a nice time over the Christmas holiday even though nothing topped the moon, caye, shrimp and Chardonnay of early in the week. Christmas Eve I went visiting with Therese and the kids to see her sister (fruitcake, cashew wine) and her mother (fruitcake, rum popo – a [...]
December 24: Christmas Wishes Christmas wishes for you and yours. Here’s a nice Christmas wish I just got from Kurt, the young programmer here at Naturalight. Worth passing on, I thought. We wish you the courage to be warm, when the world would like you to be cold. We wish you success sufficient to your [...]
December 24: This is the Life I know that Oregon and Massachusetts and many other spots also had good viewing for this beautiful, bright full moon and it sounds glorious, but it’s hard to believe it could get any better than my experience here. We went out to Southwater Caye about 2:00 in the afternoon. [...]
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 [...]
December 15: Tobacco Caye: A “Trip” The plan after my night at the lodge with Capt. Frank, Sgt. Alejandro and the drunk (a Saturday) was that we would meet on the street in front of my house at 7:30 am for our day trip to Tobacco Caye. Now there was a time in my life [...]
December 15: A Belizean Week-end I got a little more adventurous this weekend and ended up with some typically Belizean experiences, unlike my usual mode which is mostly observation. On Saturday night I finally visited a Belizean bar (a real one, not the kind at a resort) with Capt. Frank, Sgt. Alejandro and another guy. [...]
December 10: A Trip to Cockscomb Basin They called me Wednesday from Pelican Beach and said that there was a tour going to Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday that had space available. So I went. There hasn’t been much opportunity for me to tag along on tours lately because there haven’t been many tourists [...]
December 7: Thanksgiving in Mexico Thanksgiving in Mexico with Carol’s friends was a good combination of traditional and local color. Carol and J.B. are back in Bacalar, located about 10 miles from Chetumal (just across the Belize border) on a beautiful lake called “Lake of the Seven Colors.” The water is very clear and still [...]
December 1: Traveling to Mexico Getting to and from Mexico and across the border was half the fun of the Thanksgiving trip to Bacalar to visit Carol (a friend from the States, “wintering” there). I flew from Dangriga to Belize City on one of those wondrous 10-passenger, 2-prop island hoppers. Since there was only me [...]
