Archive for 'Travel'
More San Francisco adventures
Posted on March 28, 2009 in Travel
LA will be here soon. We are off for a day of shopping and sight seeing. We will go to china town today which I am looking forward to as I have not made it there yet. I might actually look at my shopping list not bothered to do so yet. LA told Gela to [...]
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Sushi Happy hour
Posted on March 27, 2009 in Eat - Sleep - Drink, Travel
Gela and I are just heading off to breakfast then I will have a shopping day. Pics to follow when I get home.
Had a nice breakfast at Mel’s Drive In – we both got steak and eggs special. I love old diner’s – they had cool old pictures on the walls – very American Graffiti [...]
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The big night
Posted on March 26, 2009 in Travel
Tonight’s the big night.
I just popped into a net cafe as I could only get so far on Forrest’s mac and accessing my preset blog posts was not happening.
Been having a great time so far. Went for a nice long walk this morning then had steak and eggs at the Lucky Penny and went to [...]
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Travel day
Posted on March 25, 2009 in Island Life, Travel
Overall my flight to San Fran was pretty easy.
Started on Tropic Air to Philip Goldson International. Had time to have some delicious stewed chicken – one last Belizean meal before I boarded my international flight.
Dallas airport is massive. After living on Ambergris Caye island so long it was a bit of a shock to my [...]
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Big Seat Sale
Posted on December 10, 2008 in Guest Contributors, Travel, Useful information
Just got this email in from Gailtor and it is definitly worth sharing the good news…
Hey Laurie.. Check this out.. In case there is anyone you know who mightbe able to be available Jan 1st to 8th..
It’s $235 all in…
$88 — Non-Stop to Belize from Toronto, Roundtriphttp://ca.travelzoo.com/top20/450701-503847/Source: Signature Vacations
Gail
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Belize City Adventure
Posted on August 14, 2008 in Travel, Useful information
Up before the sun today – getting ready to catch the 7 am boat for Belize city.
Our first stop is the eye doctor on St Thomas St – Carole said if you go early in the morning you will be seen quickly. After that we go to the Canadian Consulate to turn in our applications [...]
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There’s no place like home
Posted on April 22, 2008 in Eat - Sleep - Drink, Travel
Our hotel was nice it had wide hallways – room was decent – comfortable bed – they scored points on giving us 4 pillows instead of 2 – shower could use some new grout work – view made up for it – tv had way more channels than we get here and our cable is [...]
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One more day
Posted on April 22, 2008 in Travel, Useful information
Sitting on Mirador hotel lobby right now in Corozal – they have cheap internet $4 bzd for 1 h and there are 2 lap tops.
Went shopping with Michele this morning – wanted to get a few things so we went to Wal-mart in Playa Del Carmen. It took me no more than 5 minutes to [...]
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Sunday in Isla Mujeres
Posted on April 20, 2008 in Travel
Did a nice all you can eat Buffet this morning Marino’s I think it was called. That was our last Blogger group event. Thanks again Wayne for hosting this event – you did a great job on everything.
Getting ready to go meet Michele Rob and the kids in few min for lunch and some beach [...]
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Don´t forget …
Posted on April 19, 2008 in Travel, Useful information
A bit of San Pedro information…
Pig Roast! Sunday April 20th
Monkey Bites is hosting another BBQ with an enormous 100lb PIG on our handmade Cuban inspired grill. There will be plenty of pork for all plus all the delicious fixings and ice cold beer to wash it down! Sunday April 20th at 3pm-6pm at Crazy Canucks [...]
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Sunday breakfast
Posted on March 30, 2008 in Eat - Sleep - Drink, Message boarders, Travel
Thankfully Simon managed to get us a table at Estel’s cause it was packed. Since Shannon had to catch the 11 am flight and Simon had to go to work they were not able to have breakfast as the food would not have been ready on time.
They did however get to see Dick Carole and [...]
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Playa Del Carmen to San Pedro
Posted on February 10, 2008 in Travel, Useful information
Last day in Playa.
It is pouring down with rain and I hope it stops soon or I will be drenched walking back to our hotel – Paul just turned up all wet. Looks like we have time for a quick coffee then hustle to the bus station – good thing we are a stones throw [...]
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Cenote Azul
Posted on February 9, 2008 in Live Music, Travel, Useful information, Water Fun
We booked our return bus tickets this morning. Decided to go on the first class Ado bus which cost us $380 pesos or $38 usd versus the $29 we spent on the way here. Not a big price difference – will see how much faster it is (turned out to be 1/2 h faster). I [...]
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San Pedro to Playa Del Carmen
Posted on February 8, 2008 in Travel, Useful information
Surprise we are headed for Mexico – Playa Del Carmen to be exact. Got an email last Sunday from Paul’s sister saying they were on their way there Tuesday for a week and could we meet them for a couple pf days, so we started making plans and decided to catch them closer to the [...]
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Go slow – Caye Caulker
Posted on February 7, 2008 in Message boarders, Travel
Between the fire at Wings, rushing off to the advisory board meeting at the school and meeting up with Greg and Diane yesterday was a busy day – so when Paul suggested we take a short trip to Caye Caulker this morning I was ready to go enjoy the relaxing pace over there. [...]
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Boat Bus Taxi Plane
Posted on February 5, 2008 in Travel, Useful information
Today we went on a boat, bus, taxi and plane.
Almost there thankfully – to early for vibrating boat can’t wait to get on the bus to Belmopan.
Off we go in search of the chicken bus – was not hard to find Novelo’s bus station a bout a 15 minute walk from the water taxi. We [...]
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Altun Ha with Seaduced
Posted on November 12, 2007 in Message boarders, Travel, tacogirl Specials
I was not sure if it was all the fun we had, the rain on the way home, or the gringos gone wild wearing me out Sunday but after our trip to Altun Ha I needed some quality couch potato time.
Coming back to my pc to upload a couple of pics to this post, I [...]
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