Before I left the states for Belize, my wisdom teeth started coming in. Now don't ask me why they waited so long. I thought maybe it was significant with the timing of leaving for my trip. Maybe I would need extra wisdom for what was to come, or maybe deciding to go to Belize was a wise choice and my wisdom teeth were letting me know. I even searched online to see if there is an 'old wives' tale about wisdom teeth and how they became known as such. I found no such tale, so if anyone does know and they [View Full Entry]

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Hola.. Bin jetzt die vierte Woche unterwegs und jetzt auf Caye Caukler gelandet. Hanna und ich haben den letzten Tag in Puerto sehr genossen, wir waren Cafe trinken .. und am Beach relaxen. Am Abend hatten wir eine Einladung von Jeremy, einem Amerikaner den wir in der Flybar kennengelernt haben, der uns zum Essen eingeladen hat. Er hat uns sooooooooooooooooooo geniales Essen gekocht - Shrimps mit ChilliErdnussBrandy Sauce und Kartoffelkuchen..unglaublicher Gemackseindruck... Um 21:30 is dann unser Bus nach San Cristobal gefahren und wir haben wie Bebis geschlafen..Den Tag haben wir in [View Full Entry]

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Its been a long time since you last heard from us. After our wild stay in San Cristobal we headed into the jungle in Pelanque. We actaully stayed in El Panchant an little backpackers haven right next to the Mayan ruins. Our first night there was spent drinking with our Norwegian friends from Zipolite, who had completely forgiven us for kicking them out of our car due to weight restricitons. There was a little open mic action in the jungle as well and you can bet Sam Brown took more than his fair share of turns busting out covers and originals [View Full Entry]

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Our Travel Blog February 13, 2008 We left on feb 12th around 12:00pm to Vancouver airport headed to L.A. THe flight was about 5 hours long and I could not sleep at all due to a bad cough. Christianna could not sleep as well as I was keeping her up. L.A was a blur as it was just killing time before our next flight to El Salvador. It was nice being back to where I was born even though we never left the airport. From there we flew to Belize, our first official destination. We caught a cab to the water [View Full Entry]

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We were so taken by our first visit to Belize last March that we decided we had to come back often. We have a place on Ambergris Caye that we like, and plan to see some Mayan sites as well as snorkling. Andrew and I became open water certified so we can go scuba diving this year. We hope to do two dive trips, possibly to the blue hole, one of the most amazing sites in the world for diving (so we hear). As we are just starting, we probably won't go below eighty feet, but it should be pretty cool! [View Full Entry]

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Belize elections are tomorrow. When I first arrived, I started hearing talk of upcoming elections, but the date had not been set. Somehow Feb 7th was chosen, so that in combination with Carnival has made for an interesting week! There are 2 parties. The UDP (United Democratic Party) and the PUP (Peoples United Party). The PUP is currently in power with Prime Minister Said Musa (palestinean descent, but born in Belize). There have been many parades throughout town lately as well as blue and red banners and vandalizing for the 2 parties promotional materials. Wikipedia has a good summary [View Full Entry]

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MMMmmmmmmmmmmm If I were to sum up belizean food in a few words, it would be spicy, fresh, and sexy. Having some girlfriends here for the last week has allowed me to re-experience the newness of the amazing food offered here in Belize. Just to give you an idea, here are some of the foods I have eaten in the last week: Fresh lobster, conch and snapper bbq with plantains and veggies - all caught and prepared in front of my eyes, served with corn tortillas - pineapple for desert Conch fritters, black bean soup, coconut crusted shrimp Empanadas, more conch [View Full Entry]

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Rain....... As my laundry woes have continued, I have learned a couple tid bits that should help me out. A couple local belizeans have informed me that it rains every half moon and every full moon. In thinking about the past couple months, I would say that this has been accurate. I was wondering how everyone knew this because it would be so beautiful out, not a cloud in the sky, but nobody would have their clothes out on the line. I would take this wonderful opportunity to wash my clothes (still by hand), and put them out only to have [View Full Entry]

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Op Ambergris Caye in Belize zijn we uiteindelijk vier nachtjes gebleven. Op het eiland wonen veel Rastafari achtige types, al dan niet met lang haar. Een van hen ontmoetten we toen we de steiger af/het eiland op liepen; hij wees naar mijn gitaartje en het volgende gesprekje ontstond (althans, dit maakte ik op uit zijn gebrabbel): What do you play man, you play reggae? - Uh, I play all kinds of music. - You smoke herbs man? - No. - You should smoke the herbs man, you´ll play totally different things! Met deze tip in de zak waren we vol goede [View Full Entry]

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We're in Belize! Belize is a small country in Central America south of Mexico, north west of Honduras and north east of Guatemala. It is famous for its coastline and its great diving and snorkelling due to a long barrier reef which runs along side its coast. This place is great! Or, you might say, unbelizeable! We left Isla Mujeres a few days ago and stayed in Tulum, Mexico for a couple of nights. Gorgeous, long white sand beach and some great Mayan ruins right on the coast overlooking the beach. It was an important shipping and trade port for the [View Full Entry]

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