This morning was fricken freezing, I left the house in jeans, t-shirt, hoodie, shoes and socks and I was still cold enough that my teeth were chattering - no exaggeration.  As I was hitching a ride part way to town with tacoboy who was on his way to work, I was second guessing my decision have left the house and wishing I had crawled back under the covers instead. By the time I got to Wings department store ...

I am sure most of you who live here and a many who are repeat visitors to Ambergris Caye have a 'how rumors get started' story or two. My last one started late last night when tacoboy arrived home from Trivia at Pedro's Pizza and a night with the Bat Sub boys. He came home with  a report that Sunday was supposed to be the record coldest day in San Pedro in a very long time. I thought it was possible because ...

It is day 8 of our cleanse and Dennis and I have officially started winding down  and adding a bit more to our diet. We actually started that yesterday by going for foodie happy hour at Aji Restaurant and enjoyed some delicious fish tacos - can't Imagine anything Hugo cooks being bad. They wefe served 3 to a plate with fresh fruit on the side and a great deal for $10 bzd. Today's winding down treat was some ...

Being the second day that Denis has been cold turkey from cigarettes he was not feeling as agitated and up for a trip to town. Yesterday I went solo because he had his head burred in a book all day to shake the cravings. I am really going to miss him when he heads to Mexico next week we have been having a lot of fun hanging out. We set out on foot towards one of  my favorite back roads ran into Caroline of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today was one of those days where we have been lucky enough to experience a wide range of weather, we even got a rainbow in amidst the sun, rain and fast approaching cloud cover. I also noticed the breeze has been coming in a bit more from the west which often brings cooler temperatures. I took the opportunity to enjoy the sun while it was out and get a nice walk in this morning. Part of the reason for my w ...

Anyone that lives here knows shoe shopping is a tricky business in San Pedro. Today I am going to tell you story about how tricky. I wanted some news some shoes for a weekend work function so I set out walking to town to see what I could find at my 4 usual choices for shoe shopping in downtown San Pedro. My requirements were very simple some sort of black or neutral color wedges to go with a cute black dres ...

It is still dark outside, I can hear the wind and rain picking up. The latest tracking model shows us good by this afternoon. It already feels like we are in the clear as Ernesto was a very tame storm for us. Will be heading to what I assume will be the last Hurricane Ernesto meeting shortly and feeling very lucky I scored a ride as I am pretty sire cabs would be a slim to none option this morning with curf ...

San Pedro is almost back to normal. Some businesses are still closed and I do not blame them for taking this golden opportunity to take some well deserved time off. It has been a cold wet day perfect for staying at home. Both tacoboy and I agreed if we did not have to go to work we could have easily slept in. Please keep in mind that my post below is late, I was blogging at 6:30 this morning from my phone w ...

I am starting to feel like the San Pedro town council conference room is my second home :) The Evacuation numbers for Hurricane Ernesto are in -  632 have left Ambergris Caye by water taxi, 365 by Tropic Air and Maya Island Air 170. All going according to plan. Tropical storm Ernesto is officially cat 1 and tracking  west north west. According to Frank, a hurricane hunter said winds increasing and speed of ...

Since last night a lot of timelines have been set in place.There has been a curfew set from 10:00pm tonight till 10:00am tomorrow morning while the storm passes except for those on duty. No alcohol sales from noon onward.  If you are planning to evacuate from the island the Water taxis will be stopping at noon today. Steve Schulte CEO of Tropic Air, confirmed flights will also be stopping at noon, however i ...