One of the Rio Dulce marinas, Hacienda Tijax (Tey-hash), is also a 500-acre rubber plantation which has a number of trails through the property for hiking and horseback riding. Yesterday, we got around early for an 8 am trail ride. Our horses were saddled and waiting on the trail when we were introduced. Raul sized […]
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Rio Dulce, Guatemala
We left Belize a little sad about how much we missed. Thank goodness, it will be right next door to us awhile and we can go back. We checked out of Belize Wednesday by taking the Hokey Pokey Ferry to Big Creek. I don’t know what they think is so Hokey Pokey about their ferry. […]
Lily And Mom Post
Dad and I are reading The Hobbit. Right now in it, they are riding to a very dangerous forest. I lost a toenail from tripping on a rope. My toe went under the board and my nail went over the board. It still has not grown back. We just saw a dolphin with a red […]
Friends I Met In Placencia Beach By Lily
I met two girls today, Ocean and Hermina. As a game we rubbed sand over ourselves and jumped into the water. We were swimming and I got stung by a jellyfish and Ocean and Hermina’s mother sprayed some stuff on the sting. A book I read not to long ago that was called Watership Down. […]
Lazy Sunday on Boat
Belize Ten Day Forecast: 80 Percent chance of rain every single day! I can’t believe the forecast but, apparently, this is the RAINY SEASON. It did rain through the night. We had the hatches open and Lily, sleeping underneath an open hatch, woke us up with “IT IS RAINING!” We scrambled around closing everything up. […]
San Pedro to Placencia
We got to know the small settlement of San Pedro pretty well. Cellular World sits about midway down middle street and we went there about ten times. One of the items on the to-do list was secure phone internet service for Belize so we could check email and weather while making our way south. Little […]
Fair Winds
25 years ago, yesterday, the wind was blowing hard in Western Oklahoma. An outdoor wedding was hastily moved to the church. The wind blew everyone there and back to see the wind-blown bride and groom. It was an omen. It clearly indicated that wind would henceforth be a force in this couple’s life together. And […]
Walking To Town: Seeing Tulum
By our guesstimate, El Cid is a little more than 1.5 miles from Puerto Morelos. Short cab rides in Isla Mujeres and Cancun have been a dollar or two. However, this similarly short ride from El Cid to Puerto Morelos is fifteen dollars, one-way. Once in PM, you can go the same distance for two […]
El Cid Resort
We spent the morning doing schoolwork and boat chores. Jake handled Lily’s spelling practice the past couple of days and that is going well. They start a game of backgammon during which Lily has to spell her words in order to roll the dice. She actually did pretty good on her test today so maybe […]
Puerto Morelos
We sailed to Puerto Morelos today with clouds on all sides. We left early this morning in anticipation of fighting the two knot current all day. Somehow, we rode a little counter current down and made really good time while also somehow avoiding rain until the final ten minutes. As we pulled into El Cid […]