Places to Go & Things to See
Palapa Bar and Grill A San Pedro Town Institution
A palapa has a thatched roof that lets rain run off it like water runs off a duck's back. The shape and structure of these traditional island buildings is functional, not complicated to build, and uses local materials. In a big wind the whole thing...
Captain Morgan’s Resort and Casino privateers and pirates
The resort and casino are on the north side of Ambergris Caye and you get there in a taxi by the new road, or a water taxi with Coastal Express, or catch one of the resort's own shuttles that bring guests to and from their accommodations. This time of...
Crab Races Number 16 Wins
On Tuesday nights, at 6:30 pm, featured entertainment at Crazy Canuck's is crab races. The races are a fundraiser for local schools and charitable groups and give locals and visitors another reason to drink, dance, socialize, relax. Number 57 is halfway...
Belize Express Water taxi
There are several water taxis in Ambergris Caye. The Belize Express goes to Caye Caulker and Belize City on a two hour schedule, and Chetumal, Mexico and back once a day. Inside the enclosed boat we are shaded from intense sun. We follow the reef as we...
Caye Caulker Day trip
Caye Caulker is pronounced "Key Caulker". This small island is to the south of Ambergris Caye on the way back to Belize City. The Belize Water Express brings you to the miniscule port in thirty minutes and a round trip ticket from San Pedro Town is...
Ak’Bol Yoga Retreat Sanctuary
Ak'Bol was built into a business by a couple who came to Belize twenty years ago with a dream of nature, health, spirit, and capitalism. The entrance is not well announced and if you are driving you will zip right past in your sprint for bigger resorts...
Belize Walk About November 3, 2015
San Pedro Town waits for her photo shoot like a beautiful model that has spent her whole life understanding what people see when they think they see her. November 2, 2015 is a walking day. I smell a fresh cinnamon roll and go searching for it. Cold,...
Shooting Pumpkins Country folk Diversions
In the distance, ATV's and pickup trucks wait for this year's contest to begin, looking themselves like small tin cans hung on a fence post for target practice. They scurry around after each shot, mark where pumpkins come back to Earth and send back GPS...
Chadd’s Band Sadies Bar and Grill
Once the sun drops below the Albuquerque city limits, street lights switch on, programmed by computers. The man made lights aren't strong enough to make everything visible so, at night, you move from one pocket of light to another and guess what is down...
Moriarty Pinto Bean Festival Local Color
Moriarty is a small town thirty minutes east of Albuquerque on Route 66. Annually, the city hosts a Pinto Bean Festival to honor the lowly pinto bean and those rural folk that live in this area in manufactured homes on subdivided one acre plots that get...
Railway Market Sax Therapy
On Sundays, during warmer months in Albuquerque, an old train barn opens its huge metal doors to the public. Vendors set up inside to sell their produce, art, clothes, soaps and lotions, health food, get signatures for green projects and alternative...
Gran Quivera Salinas Pueblo Missions
Between Roswell and Mountainair, in New Mexico, there is enough open space to house millions of people, plus livestock. Land stretches from the road as far as you can see. Whether the planet is running out of space or just resources needed to support...
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