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100,000 Steps in Belize
Well, the count is in and the pedometer is tipping the 110,000 step mark. That’s right, we’ve clocked approximately 50 miles this week in our Belizean excursions in and out of watery caves,…
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The Winding Road to Caracol
In 1995 Belize was working on a massive undertaking – the excavation of a site of Mayan ruins that had been discovered in the 1930s by a local logger. Now, decades later, archaeologists…
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Roadside Assistance is on the Way!
Here’s what we were planning to do today… Here’s what we were doing instead… Our driver and tour guide for a day at the Caracol Mayan Ruins picked us up shortly after 7:30…
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Green Iguanas Galore
This morning Julian and I parted ways. We’ve realized that after so many days of travel and activity it’s helpful for me to have some down time alone, usually staying at our lodging…
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The San Ignacio Market
Two young boys conducted business in front of me at the back of a pickup truck overflowing with hacked open coconuts. One was buying, the other selling, while his father sharpened the blade…
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Across the Border to Tikal Guatemala
It was too tempting to resist. Our place in San Ignacio sits less than 30 minutes from the border of Guatemala, and many companies offer day tours to the UNESCO world heritage site…
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Into An Ancient Mayan Tomb
It’s impossible to capture the adventure we had today with a camera, in part because it is something one can only fully experience firsthand, and in part because some clumsy “Joe Smith” dropped…
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On the Streets of San Ignacio
A nondescript wooden hut sits on the corner down the street from our house. If we didn’t know better, we probably would have walked past it all week long and never noticed it.…
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First Morning in Belize
The sounds of the jungle greeted me this morning as I awoke at our Airbnb in San Ignacio, Belize. I love getting up early, brewing a cup of hot tea, and sitting outside…
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New England Fall Foliage Trip Day Twelve: Farewell, Maine
I wasn’t going to post anything today since we’re departing and will be in the air most of the day, but there were two things that we ended up doing this morning that…
