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  • From David Currie on Cuenca

    That is a really cool place. I am definitely going to need visit some day!
    2015/12/06 at 4:55 pm

  • From David Currie on Dorado Panaderia

    What a cool little pastries shop!
    2015/12/06 at 4:51 pm

  • From alan on Who is in charge here?

    Wow, horses and tear gas….sounds like you’re caught up in a revolution! Glad to here you headed back to your quarters….it wouldn’t do to be taken for an outside agitator!
    2015/12/05 at 11:25 am

  • From alan on Who is in charge here?

    You better not get caught up in a revolution down there!I think maybe heading back to your quarters was a good idea!
    2015/12/05 at 11:23 am

  • From alan on Parque Calderone PowWow

    Wow, I like the mayor’s aide….see if she’s single will you? How much Spanish have you picked up? Have you studied and thought of taking Spanish classes? I have a whole box full of books,tapes,and other materials I have accumulated over my years of trying to learn the language…..until I finally realized that being largely deaf, and someone who can just get by in English….there was realistically no chance to learn a new language! So I have a bunch of material if you want to use it just let me know….I have thought of tossing it before…but just couldn’t bring myself to throw it away! You might want to watch for me on that cable TV program about hoarders….I might just be a candidate for a future episode? Lol
    2015/12/04 at 4:08 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Parque Calderone PowWow

      save the materials…. i need another project besides music…..scott
      2015/12/04 at 7:18 pm

  • From Dave Forse on Cuenca

    What a beautiful town….You are living the life Chaco only dreams of!!!!!
    2015/12/04 at 11:43 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Cuenca

      Living the life your dog dreams about is fantastic because i know how well you take care of Chaco. getting readjusted to higher altitude and bigger city but the city is like i remembered it which is why i came back.
      2015/12/04 at 12:00 pm

  • From on Thanksgiving

    Well I’m enjoying the blog. Glad you had a nice Thanksgiving meal; how generous of her. I guess offering your painting services paid off in the long run. cindy
    2015/12/02 at 2:35 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Thanksgiving

      Actually, the Thanksgiving invite was from the owner of the Sandbar where Walkaholics have lunch on Wed. My painting was done for Legends, another bar opened by Kristi on the north end. Like I say, there are more bars than mosquitos in San Pedro Town and there are plenty of mosquitos there. It was a generous invite from Brittany, the owner of the Sandbar made to several of us on a Wed lunch.
      2015/12/02 at 4:28 pm

  • From David Currie on Hol Chan Snorkel

    Looks like a lot of fun. I wish I was there!!
    2015/12/01 at 6:29 am

  • From marklafon@comcast.net on Hand Fishing from the pier

    yea, I thought I was going to see you in shorts/hat flip flops. Kind of a cameo appearance. Only the people who knew you would notice. I do appreciate the map. It gives a nice overview of the area. Maybe, they could chum the water for divers, and have swim with the diver tours.
    2015/11/30 at 6:48 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Hand Fishing from the pier

      yep, don’t like the stage much…. too uncomfortable up there.
      2015/12/01 at 2:51 am

  • From alan on Hand Fishing from the pier

    Gosh, you got me excited thinking you were finally going to get a picture of yourself down there! False alarm though! One big lacking of your blog IMO is that none of the pics have you in them!
    2015/11/29 at 5:32 pm

  • From alan on Coconut Jose

    Lol, wow you have hooked me with this post! You know how I love palms and palm trees! As you know I keep many varieties of palms here at home and in my courtyard when weather permits? The most hardy needle palms, Chinese windmill palms, Mexican fan palms a Pindo palm,et. al., ….all are among my menagerie here in the Panhandle of Texas! Lol
    2015/11/29 at 3:41 pm

  • From marklafon@comcast.net on Construction Zone

    I noticed the j & j laundry had a like us(facebook), The world is getting smaller.
    2015/11/29 at 7:02 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Construction Zone

      Too many places to see; too little time to see them.
      2015/11/29 at 7:24 am

  • From alan on Construction Zone

    Oh my, I think we’ve finally lost you to the tropics! You really seem to be fitting in with this local culture…much more than any of your prior excursions it seems to me? Is Belize a possible for when the great collapse happens? Back here in the failing United States we are counting on you to check out and find places where we can escape to…places where we might live out our last days in relative happiness!
    2015/11/27 at 4:50 pm

  • From on Little Girl Feeding Monkeys

    I find monkeys to be quite appealing, especially when dealing with free bananas administered by cute little girls. The same was true in Panama – the highlight of the boat tour of the Canal was the visit with a little troop of monkeys who boarded the boat, pirate style, and demanded not our wallets but our food.
    2015/11/26 at 11:29 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Little Girl Feeding Monkeys

      And they made a few walk the plank…….
      2015/11/26 at 1:30 pm

  • From alan on Heading Home

    Beautiful rainbow! Are the Mayan ruins solid stones, or is there dirt inside?
    2015/11/25 at 9:46 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Heading Home

      The ruins are only partially excavated. They were covered with dirt and forest growth and archeologists brought them to life. they are stones like the Eqyptian pyramids but a different size and different markings.
      2015/11/25 at 3:54 pm

  • From alan on Sea-Rious Tours

    150.00 us first off sounds pretty pricy to me…..but I admit everything out there in the world seems pricy to me….and unlike our parents I wasn’t raised or experienced a depression…..not yet anyway! I hope that i never will ….yet fear that it is not very far off! Lol. Liked your Mazatlan reference. …we had a good time down there for a week last winter didn’t we? Might consider trying something like that again? I remember if you sat in just the right deck chair overlooking the pool you could get good Internet access! Lol only in Mexico! BTW, are you going to take advantage of the 36.00 bz Thanksgiving buffet?
    2015/11/24 at 4:01 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Sea-Rious Tours

      not a bad price for all that is involved and very much the going rate. when in Rome you have to do as Romans do. Glad to take the side trip and would do it again but be more knowlegeable about Lamanai.
      2015/11/25 at 3:53 pm

  • From alan on Pool at the Average Joe Bar

    So…on average do most of these people you play pool with…do they live full time in Belize?
    2015/11/24 at 3:43 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Pool at the Average Joe Bar

      jack is my AirBnb host and Kristi is opening Legends, a bar and restaurant in San Pedro Town on the north end. Greg runs the Island Buzz Cafe and Walter is a golf cart mechanic down the street. Rabbit is a perennial visitor here, as is Mark. I am the only ” tourist. “
      2015/11/25 at 3:51 pm

  • From alan on Palapa Bar and Grill

    Oh good…u r posting again! Lol you seem to post in spurts, but I am not complainin’…..I just got a weather alert that a big cold freezing storm is on its way and should hit here Thanksgiving day! Wish I was someplace warmer, but it’s not going to happen just yet! Hard to tell about the age of your bathing beauties in your pic…..most of the people in your pics seem much older than us….but doesn’t everybody? Lol. And I don’t know if I could frequent a place in tropical Belize that has fake…metal… palm trees? Something is very wrong there!
    2015/11/24 at 3:35 pm

  • From Pat Riley on Belize Bike Ride

    I see the Thanksgiving dinner comes with “beats” … does this mean there’s musical entertainment included?
    2015/11/23 at 11:02 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Belize Bike Ride

      I thought ” beats ” would be pretty good. Remember, a sizable minority of students drop out of school here in primary school.
      2015/11/24 at 6:10 am

  • From alan on Belize Bike Ride

    Glad to see you’re posting again Scott! Looks wet down there! The biking is a good idea….were you able to borrow one from your landlord…or did you have to rent it? Looks like one of our old single speed ones…LOL!
    2015/11/23 at 8:17 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Belize Bike Ride

      there was an extra around chez caribe so i borrowed it. seemed awful hard on the way back but it beats walking.
      2015/11/23 at 4:55 pm

  • From Pat Riley on Places - San Pedro Town

    Love the shots … they’re really getting me into that “third-world feeling” we look for when we travel. I saw the “Havana Cigars” store photo. These, like the Cuban cigars sold in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean are almost certainly counterfeit and not even good cigars. Virtually all of the Cuban cigars are controlled by a Cuban government owned company (S.A. Habanos) and are sold as luxury items. I doubt the Belize store is one of their customers. You can read more about Cuban cigars here:
    2015/11/22 at 7:26 pm

  • From alan on Is a Church More than its Members?

    Wow, an albuq. Link down there! The world is a small place!
    2015/11/18 at 4:12 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Is a Church More than its Members?

      I was truly surprised too…. it is a small world.
      2015/11/18 at 4:22 pm

  • From on A Good Place to Stay

    Thanks for the fun emails. You missed a nice long rain followed by a wet, 2 inches of snow here this weekend; a winter wonderland. Melted and of course, sunny today. See the security people walking around your house, checking windows and doors–thought you’d like to know they are doing their job. Cindy
    2015/11/18 at 12:22 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on A Good Place to Stay

      Thanks for the update on Albuquerque and dropping by the blog. I am enjoying my stay here.
      2015/11/18 at 4:47 pm

  • From mark on Captain Morgan's Resort and Casino

    The weathered paint,thatched roofs, bare feet, I am envious.We are having a blizzard here. One of many reasons to travel.
    2015/11/17 at 6:37 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Captain Morgan's Resort and Casino

      I have been hearing about it and walking around in shorts and a T shirt down here is looking pretty good. Going to the mainland Thursday to see how folks live there….
      2015/11/17 at 8:09 am

  • From mark on Sunday Fundraiser

    Eat more chicken. the universal food. It made me hungry just looking at it cooking. Who needs a refrigerator.
    2015/11/17 at 6:29 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Sunday Fundraiser

      it was a great lunch and the people were great too….
      2015/11/17 at 8:08 am

  • From alan on Dogs and Birds-Belize

    Sounds like you are an islander now, attending weddings and wading barefoot back home after a long night! Apparently it doesn’t take long to become a regular…aka local? Lol. The flooding of local streets are not encouraging to me, but I guess as long as your accommodations are above water….all things shall pass?
    2015/11/14 at 4:27 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Dogs and Birds-Belize

      yes, my standards are compromised here but i have lived on islands before so it isn’t hard for me to adjust…. remember Saint Thomas?
      2015/11/14 at 4:48 pm

  • From NameCharlie on Dogs and Birds-Belize

    “The bird, if concerned, doesn’t show it”. Hahahahhaha. I love it. Thanks for the picture.
    2015/11/14 at 10:39 am

  • From Pat Riley on Art is Fishing

    I know you once thought about opening a gallery but I don’t think this should be the one. I like a lot of Haitian art but this looks sub-standard by comparison. The art from the Dominican Republic is good as well.
    2015/11/13 at 11:00 pm

    • From Scott Lafon on Art is Fishing

      I agree….. will have to make the Dominican Republic a Scotttreks destination. I haven’t seen knock your socks art off down here. i have to be carefulwith these business ideas because i, like Bruce, want to go fishing more.
      2015/11/14 at 2:52 am

  • From alan on Karaoke in Belize

    Got a kick out of your comments on the two most popular pastimes down there on the island because it reminded me of an older lady I met who owned a house in San Carlos Mexico…who reportedly told a friend of mine that she loved San Carlos because she could drink all she wanted and her kids couldn’t do anything about it! She also smoked like a chimney as I recall. …but she lived out her years enjoying herself and I guess I thought more power to her! Life is full of personal choices and consequences and if that was her choice….go for it! Lol
    2015/11/13 at 4:16 pm

  • From on Karaoke in Belize

    When we went there, we were on the mainland for a short while. I think our cruise ship stopped there. We took a cab inland too see a zoo of all things. Sounds like it might be similar. If I remember, prostitution is legal there, which no doubt compounds the aids problem.
    2015/11/13 at 8:51 am

    • From Scott Lafon on Karaoke in Belize

      Cruise ships go into Belize City and passengers take small boats to the docks for day trips. Ambergris Caye and San Pedro Town are to the north and east of Belize city – either a twenty minute plane flight or an hour and a half water taxi.
      2015/11/13 at 1:00 pm
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