“My first time out of my home country was to Belize. As part of that trip, my husband and I volunteered at a bamboo farm about an hour outside of Belize City. We began by taking a bus to our destination where we were dropped off at the end of a dirt road. As this…
“One of the sketchiest things I’ve ever done abroad was night snorkeling in Belize. My wife and I paid these two guys we’ve never met from a local company to take us out at the middle of the night into a distant part of the ocean where no other boats were and way beyond my…
“In the mornings Ben always got up before me and we stayed in this little hotel. The people lived downstairs and then you’d go around the back of the building and up the stairs and then there were like five rooms around the top of this building, they called it a hotel. He’d get up…
“We caught lobsters in Belize. The dive master had this little stick with a hook on the end of it. If you were just swimming by you wouldn’t know unless you were looking for it, but there would be this one little antenna sticking up going back and forth in the water. He’d reach in with this…
“I held a shark and she bit me, took a little chunk out of the wet suit. Just a nurse shark and she was just as scared as I was. The dive master picked it up and handed it to me, it wasn’t very big.” I don’t know that I was ever panicky [while diving].…
“In Belize on San Pedro they had Carnival, here [USA] we call it Mardi Gras. The little kids on San Pedro island would ask if you were a tourist, if they could paint you, but they whitewashed everything. The walls, the street, and the trees, and it was kind of a latex paint that washed…
“I loved Belize, I loved it.. when we were there, we went over into the mainland and went into the Mayan runs and I loved that, going up the little river on the boat and the big trees that hang over. Then we got off the boat and we got on an old, old, old…
“On San Pedro island in Belize I met a man with a family of three who earns a living as a caretaker for the beach house of a wealthy millionaire from the states. He explained that the gentleman who owned the home visits perhaps two weeks out of the year, when the stress of work…
“In San Pedro, Belize I met a middle-aged woman with six children who lived in a home on the beach. After a few hours talking with her I learned that her husband had gotten work on a cruise ship four years ago and simply disappeared. Left alone with no skills, no work experience and six…
Linda, from the United States, has been traveling for 30+ years. She and her husband Ben began traveling for the first time to simply get away from the cold of their home in Alaska. They planned a 3-week trip to Cabo San Lucas for her first trip out of their home country and have never…