I may be meeting with Belize’s Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries tomorrow.
No, really. (I never kid about the truly bizarre.) Chet, the guy I was talking with about his planned ecotourism project, is meeting with the guy tomorrow or Friday, and has asked me to come along if I can, presumably to lend him some [...]
Belize is PAVED in orchids!
I went for a walk last night, looked up into a tree by the water, and my goodness! The rosette cups of bromeliads, the big flat leaves of orchids, crumpled yellow-and-maroon sprays of flowers COVERED the branches, and half the trunk. The tree was a bouquet of blossoms.
Then I started looking [...]
Belize is a tiny little country, about the size of Massachusetts, nestled between the southeast end of Mexico and the northeastern border of Guatemala. About a quarter of the 250,000 people living here live in the biggest city, Belize City–making it about the size of Mountain View.
In other words, it’s a really, really, really small [...]
An AIDS Lifecycle lesson I should have remembered: Drink before you’re thirsty, and eat before you’re hungry.
I collapsed as soon as I got to the airport hotel, and spent a couple hours in a hazy state before it dawned on me that this wasn’t normal. I knew I’d been dehydrated in Antigua (which is so [...]