OK this is my last “catching up” post from last week’s travels. What we really needed after all that busy traveling back and forth was something relaxing. We decided to wrap up the Great Inland Travel excursion with a day trip from Rio Dulce to Agua Caliente. Agua Caliente is a hot springs waterfall an […]
Just when you think I have run out of bus stories… Strolling in the Antigua outdoor market, we notice the 10 – 15 Chicken buses parked in the back lot. A chicken bus is an old American school bus reborn as a brightly painted Guatemalan public transportation bus. Many have gleaming chrome detailing and fancy […]
I have mentioned that our little excursion involved a lot of buses. On our way to Antigua, we took one of the Litegua especial buses which means assigned seats, air conditioning and a bathroom in the back. We now call this “luxury travel” without batting an eye. We settled in for the 5-6 hour trip […]
El Castillo de San Felipe was built on the shores of Lago De Izabel. We dingied a little farther up the river today, past the landmark bridge, to reach the east end of the lake and tour the old Spanish fort. The fort was built in 1595 to reinforce Spanish control of the waterway. We […]
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 […]
We sailed over some lumpy seas last Thursday to reach Cozumel. The guidebooks explained that you could anchor right by San Miguel’s downtown area and land your dinghy on the sandy beach that stretches along the anchorage. We got anchored close up to shore right in front of the Capitania de Puerto building. However, the […]
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 […]
We spent several winter months at Marathon in 2010 but never made it to Sombrero Reef. We finally made it there today. It was beautiful. The water was just slightly rippling. The sun was out most of the day. Their were tons of fish which we, unfortunately, cannot identify (yet). The purple fan coral was […]
Key West is the southern-most spot in the United States where you can buy a cheap t-shirt, an overpriced beer and contemplate human absurdity. We can stand about 5 hours of such contemplation because we will only buy a couple of overpriced beers. Had the beer been cheaper, the contemplation would have ran deeper. They […]
Around noon on St. Patrick’s Day, Jake put out there the idea that we should get off the boat once more while in the Party Capitol of the World. It had been a cold, rainy morning so he did not get a “Yes Indeed!” from anyone but Lily. Still, the aged and infirm parents were […]