Hotel Ucum Chetumal

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It was actually comfortable. I was laying on the grass Juan had cut earlier for the girls. We had been giving the girls grass we cut at rest stops since getting some bad dusty hay our first night in Mexico that had given the girls some colicky signs and constipation. By this point they were no longer straining to poop and their appetites were NEVER affected.

We spent a few days just camping on the beach with Herve, Frederique Valentine and Ludovic and Meric of course.  I think we had some of the best meals yet while camping, with a Aurrera Bodega (Mexican Walmart with a huge grocery dept) just up the street, we just stocked up on food, camped and pigged out together for a few days.   It was very restful and peaceful alongside the caribbean sea ...

We arrived with the intention of crossing the border immediately and heading for either a coastal town in Belice or Flores in Guatemala. However, we arrived ten minutes too late and missed all the connecting buses. We had no choice but to find a cheap hotel and wait until 5am the next morning to catch a bus. The night was pretty ...

... guessing 500 people immediately I feel like im at a rock concert. The heat begins to rise and more and more bodies are pushed closer and closer until everyone is touching everyone. Now just like any crowd you have your yellers , who are instant if they yell loud enough they'll get through, attached to your yellers are your agreers , those people who wait till someone else yells and then shouts ya our no kidding in hopes of joining their plight. In wal-mart fashion ...

... spend her entire day working on her handwritten journal and sun tanning on the banks of the lagoon. We headed into town later in the day to find an internet café so we could upload the recently completed stories to our travelblog. We returned to camp around 6:00pm and within minutes poor 'Nilla was attacked by thousands of mayflies. They surrounded our vehicle and it sounded like raindrops as they impacted the windows and the fibreglass ...

... border... No problems going through customs. Back on the bus and the big guy introduced himself - Abnar. Basically he kept us supplied with beer the whole journey - introduced us to Belikin the national beer made by a German brewer in Belize. Tunes on the bus were excellent - generally called 'Brukdown music'. It turned out that it actually was Abnar's bus - well at least his dad owns the company. This meant that when we ran out of beer Abnar ...

... the area are very different from others, e.g. Mexico. Although the Spanish plowed through the country like many of the surrounding areas, it was the British Pirates, called Baymen, who had a the strongest historical influence in the area. These marauders worked the Belizean coastline and had a field day through mid 1600s, but the pirate business all but dried up when Spain asked the British to crack down on their wayward citizens, a move which led to ...

... sits on Corozal Bay and is - appropriately enough - the district town of Corozal. Like most areas on the water, a nice cool breeze blew in from the sea making us wish we had a kite! ELECTION TIME Suffering from election fatigue (or disappointment), we were hoping to avoid any sort of voting process for the next few years. However, we are finding ourselves smack in the middle of campaign season in Belize. Municipal elections are March 1st, so we are beginning to be ...

... s just that the refried beans I've had are always from a can and therefore unpalatable. The meal was delicious, cheap and I got to enjoy music and entertainment that was going on in the town square. It was interesting because the music and entertainment lead up to some speeches about abortion. I wandered around the vendors a little bit more and tried to learn a bit more about Chetumal. I had been on a very long bus trip with little food and just filled myself up. I was tired ...

... lady and her kid waiting for the bus too. So I knew I was in the right place. I looked quickly in the guidebook about Corozal. I didn't expect to stop there, but hey, it's along the way, it sounds cool and the name is fun to say. Corozal, Belize. Especially with a Portuguese nasal accent. The only thing is that I'd be arriving in Corozal about 7 pm with this bus, so it might be hard to find lodging, oh well. It was fun and ...