Central America

I decided it was finally time to visit Caracol. A site in the Cayo district of Belize where I live, that has just been a little too remote for me to have easily gone to earlier. This is arguably the largest Mayan city in Central America. The site had been occupied as early as 1200 […]

After putting off an inevitable trip to Flores, Guatemala the past few months the time came for me to venture out there. Now don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t putting the trip off because I didn’t want to go, but merely because other things kept happening in Belize that I wanted to attend, and I […]

 
Well, it’s been awhile since I updated my blog here, but I am still in Belize and am enjoying myself very much working on the Better In Belize Project.
Already quite awhile ago I discovered what I thought looked like a Mayan mound or pyramid on the Better In Belize ecovillage property. I didn’t post about […]

Guanacaste National Park was our decided destination for adventure. It’s a small National Park reserve that is easy to access right off the highway beside Belmopan. We’d seen it many times before, but decided it was time to check it out.
We left in the early afternoon, and decided to take the sscenic route through Spanish […]

I decided to go explore the Mayan ruins at the ancient city of temples “Xunantunich”. This Mayan site has been calling me ever since I arrived, and it is so easy to get to, that I haven’t gone yet, always thinking that I could do it any day.
Well the day arrived, and I walked to […]

Mark and I decided to do a trip to Punta Gorda in the Toledo district before he sells his Jeep. Punta Gorda is Toledo’s Capital and the largest southern city in Belize. To be perfectly honest it is not a big city at all, and we found it to be one of the most laid […]

The Belize zoo is a place I’d been meaning to visit for quite awhile so that I could check out all the animals, and know what to be looking for in the jungle.
Mark and I decided to go on an excursion to Monkey Bay which is right near the Belize zoo in an attempt to […]

It’s time for me to move again. The BenqueHouse Guesthouse in Benque Viejo Del Carmen is nearly livable and just in time too. Mig, Mark, and I will be moving into it in 2 days, so the construction workers are scrambling to get the last details of the ground floor completed so that we can […]

Prelude
2 days before the race
Our team went out for a practice run on the Macal river. After a couple of hours of canoeing we got back onto shore in our green plastic canoe and met a Belizean who was worried about us taking this boat in the race.
We questioned his concern and he told us […]

Well folks, it’s official, I am now a competitor in La Ruta Maya canoe race. This is a 4 day, 3 night event of grueling paddling in teams of three people per canoe down the Belize river from San Ignacio to the sea in Belize city.
I’m going to be paddling a canoe for 4 days […]