After our goodbye to our Soviet-Bloc friends, we caught an early morning bus to Belize City, then to San Ignacio, our stepping stone into the next country, Guatemala. The busses are very crowded and we ended up standing, which is not a big deal, but different than I'm used to. Also different is that there are both a driver and a ticket-taker on the bus, who collects cash and checks tickets on passengers. It seems like it would be a very easy system to steal from, in my opinion, since no real record exists of who got on the bus, who paid, how much they paid, where they got off, etc. But that's the devious criminal mastermind talking, let's get back to the adventurer. We learned that Belize has a zoo, which Eya found very exciting!
... read more