Category: Adventures in Belize
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Medicine Man?
“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.” ~ Paracelsus. I’m feeling a bit better so I get dressed, package this nasty meat up into three bags, hang it on a handlebar (because remember, I’ve broken my bike basket already)…
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Chinese Soup Cures Tropical Disease
First of all, I did a lot of things right before stepping on that airplane from Dallas, Texas to Belize City, 18 days ago. I really did and am proud of that because how would I even know how to prepare and what to pack for a life adventure like this? After all, I did…
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Don’t Try Any of This at Home
Do you know what’s harder than dealing with culture shock in a country you’ve just moved to? Dealing with it when you’ve suddenly found yourself ill in that foreign place. On Monday morning it was very clear that I was a couple days in to some sort of tropical cold virus and Rasta got home…
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Mushrooms Are Serious Business
Since I’m writing this from a horizontal position in bed, it’s safe to assume we’ve decided not to go slow as of yet. In truth I haven’t been feeling great for the last few days and today I stayed in bed most of the time, napping off and on. It’s just some mild adjustment to…
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Go Slow Spice Girl
From almost everyone I’ve met here in Caye Caulker they say, “You need to go slow.” And in fact the Caye Caulker official motto is, “Go Slow,” so it seems perfect that we just dropped an American Type A Capricorn in a place where everyone is on “island time.” It’s still very apparent to locals…
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Dirty Hair, Hairy Legs
This week is going by way too fast. I’ve officially lived on an island in Belize for ten days! The learning curve is steep folks – if you only knew, so I’m going to try to tell you. First off, it’s the rainy season (hurricane season), and bugs are real when humidity is this high.…
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The Beginning of the Journey Back and a Side of Floor Toast
Still exhausted after putting the contents of 275 pounds of luggage back together at BZE, I allowed a porter to pull all four suitcases out to the curb at the front of the airport – or the back, I still don’t know which end is up at this point. Dressed for a day of flying…
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The Tiny Ho Has Landed
Some of you know the prequel to how I came to live in Belize and some of you don’t, but that’s alright. The origin story will be posted at a later date but so much has happened in the three and a half days that I’ve been living here that we have to just dive…
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Belize is Missing You Too
13March2023 I got a ground taxi to take me to the ferry drop off with the best driver, Lionel. He turned out to be a retired first responder on the city council – or whatever they call it in Belize – a volunteer fireman, and several other roles in addition to driving the taxi. There…
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Time for Some Healing
08March2023: Girls Trip, International Episode The trip to Belize became mandatory. Completely burnt out and at a breaking point having not experienced in quite a while, I waved the white flag and tapped out. Eight days later my best friend from high school, Mandy, and I would meet in Dallas from different states and fly…
Pixie in Paradise 