Today's post is a great San Pedro restaurant review for  Mesa Café with pictures by Junior blogger Nina Kumar. As I was loading her write up into wordpress it was totally made me hungry, snce they are closed Sunday's it's a good thing Dennis just finished making our fruit smoothies. Today we are having watermelon, papaya, strawberry, and soursop. He fortified it with with maca root from Peru, moringa powder ...

Some of the cars I see in San Pedro remind me of Hot Wheels racers as you will see in my pictures below. For me  it is a reminder that life in Belize is not the same as it was back in Canada. Seeing Hot Wheels cars around town always puts me in a good mood, similar to how I think living in a tropical climate and being a 10 minute walk from the Caribbean Sea is better than Prozac. I was planning to do this p ...

Homeschooling abroad is an option many expats who move to Belize consider for their kids. A group of people on the island decided to come together and form a new kind of high school for  kids who are taking courses from Texas Tech Independent School. The kids will be supervised and socialized getting the 'high school experience' but in a smaller group setting. The Board of Directors for the newly formed Amb ...

It is not exactly new news but I decided to blog it anyways because I absolutely love the look. Olsen agency crafted colorful, modern logo with a vintage feel and gave the Belize Tourism Board a new identity that will stand the test of time. I found 3 good examples of the new logo - see pictures below. Yesterday I went to my new Dentist, Dr Julio Lara at Ambergris Hope Clinic and got a chipped tooth filled, ...

It has been unseasonably wet this past week so we knew we were taking out chances when we opted to head down south to the Maya ruins. Jan called me Fri morning and said she checked Hydromet Belize website and that it looked like we could get lucky weather wise and that it was our call what to do. Since Mary and David were leaving yesterday we decided to do it anyways, all of us had raincoats and were in agr ...

It's official Cowboy Doug and I took over Storm Chaser's webcam as he and his lovely wife Theresa are m0vng stateside. Todd and I tried to get it set up on the roof at Banana Beach Resort Wednesday afternoon  for a lovely sea view. Due to the distance from the office and having to go 3 stories up and to the front of the building, we discovered to make it work we need a wireless transmitter. Since we could n ...

Over the years I have met many people in person or via email that have their own version of  'Living the dream' and moving to paradise. They all seem to share one thing in common, a thirst for knowledge and finding out how others have gone about doing what they want to do. Today's guest post  comes from Ron who I met while he and his wife Kathy were visiting back in Feb 2012 almost a year ago. Their version ...

I was watching  the new Bruno Mars video Locked out of Heaven this morning and got thinking about the evolution of people over the course of time and on my blog, so many small world world stories out there. Today's post is an email from Brent, my Helena Montana weather man that illustrates how small the world is between Montana Belize. Last year Brent and his girlfriend  Lisa offered that I could send them ...

The other day I had a realization, when it comes to exercise I am like a snowbird. Many people do 3 - six months or as long as they can here during their cold months. Right now we are experiencing a lot of rain and major cold front and I cannot bear the thought of getting in the pool to exercise, truth be told for the past few months. I decided to work with that and find an alternative to help me get my abs ...

Hi all it is Saga cook-off time again. If you are in town and want to do a great fundraising party, check out the January Cook-off tomorrow night [Jan 23rd] 6:00pm at at Bistro Mestizo on . This months theme is appetizers and I am sure that the entry selection will be incredible as always. Money raised from this monthly event goes towards Saga Humane Society and helping provide much need  care for man islan ...

This post is going to be a short work in progress as I am still editing my pictures of Placencia and I decided not to keep you in suspense any longer about where I stayed  and who I caught up with while there. First off, my home base was Roberts Grove, which is a lush tropical Hacienda-style beach resort on the water. With span of 22 acres, 3 restaurants, 3 pools, onsite dive shop and lagoon marina, the bea ...

I often get asked for recommends on different things. This time it was Cathy who came to me wanting a Tropic Air tacogirl special and some boat options for her birthday. I sent her Eric's contact info for Uprising tours, he is a great guy and best of all he has music option on his boat. She opted for day-long fishing trip/beach BBQ and sent me the following review and pictures after she and Jeffrey got back ...