Oxtankah Chetumal

... was good. The bus driver was one of those who piddled along though and we didn't actually make it to Chetumal until 9 am. We had no trouble crossing the border and were back on the bus in about 15 ...

... in Ohio when I was four years old, with my red wagon and it has always been one of my favorite, first memories - and I am glad I can share the experience when possible... On one of the trips to Aurrera Bodega, the Buell broke its stand again - in the heat and so I had to start leaning the bike again.   This was a long weekend, with Monday being a holiday, most repair shops would be closed ...

... at the bus station in the morning and travel with us to Guatemala. Goodbye Mexico, it's been a pleasure to experience the diversity of this fantastic country. It has so much more to offer but we just don't have the time to hang around. The past five weeks have been a real eye opener and we have enjoyed and learned from our time here. XX

... down. The crowd began to reach its limit and contract squeezing the life out literally, Ferminia almost faints so I force my way out of the crowd with her to get her some air so we went from the middle to the outskirts. Being a pitschmann I tried to talk my way through the border, but not speaking Spanish and them not budging at all we had to go back. This time we took a different route , fast and direct along the edge toward the front and straight for the doors ...

So here we are spending our last night in Belize and what a fantastic country it has been to visit. At first I was slightly apprehensive about it, wondering how safe we would be and our stuff. Sure, you do get petty crimes here, like any country; it's just blown out of proportion here because of Belize's past. Since the 90s however, the government has made a visible effort to eliminate this threat and has succeeded, in my opinion, to make the country and ...

... the morning sun tanning and writing in her journal, while Michael chose to sit in the shade of the van to continue catching up on our Travelpod journal. It was late in the day again when we headed into town to the internet café to upload some more information to the website. It took hours and hours to upload our photographs on the internet and in total we spent nearly seven hours to get three entries updated. It was a costly and boring ...

... me round the back of what looked like an ordinary shop (but turned out to have 2 swimming pools at the back with loads of families and people enjoying themselves) and grabbed a bottle of rum from one of his employees that hadn't turned up for work that day I decided to digny him and get back to Paula on the bus. Got Abnar to drop us at the bus stop where we could get the bus to Crooked Tree. We had a chat with a nice woman who filled us in on the ...

... the result is modern Belize, an English speaking country with a deeply diverse ethnic mix of Creols (descendants of African Slaves and British Pirates), Mestizos (Native Mayan and Europeans) and immigrants from Asia, South America and other places. So Belize is like the forgotten step child of sorts, a proverbial ethnic cocktail that's been shaken, stirred and forgotten, left to its own devices to affect progress and growth amid poverty, naturally beautiful ...

... with some supporters, of course). Luckily, we can just be observers for this election. (In fact, we received a friendly reminder from PC staff recently that we are strictly forbidden from engaging in any sort of political campaigning or events. Phew.) DID YOU SAY TRIATHLON?! Yes, the rumors are true. We competed in a relay triathlon in January. (Relay triathlons have the same three sports as the usual kind - swimming, biking, running - but a different person completes ...

... was supposed to be here twenty minutes ago. I bet that there's no bus or we have to go travel somewhere else to catch the bus. Turns out there was no bus. They were all colluding together about splitting the taxi cost to the border and catching a bus at the border. Apparently, it's a common experience. But I wasn't going to do it. So I cut my losses for the day and just caught a taxi to a hotel in the guidebook. It was the cheapest thing ...