How Maddie got her first passport by Jake aka John Brandon So, here are the gory details: John, Lori, Lisa and Madison (age 13 months) show up at Bradley International Airport February 28 at 4:00 a.m. for a 6:00 flight to Miami on American Airlines, connecting to Belize City. At the counter, Lori notices the AA representative was very nervous after asking me for the identification for our daughter.  After m ...

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 ...

I have not had time to even look at my Playa del Carmen pictures since I dumped them all on my Mexico flash drive, but I promise I will get to blogging the trip and Taste of Playa 2012 soon. It's official Dick is leaving for Antarctica in 10 days so we have begun our joyrides in Darth Vader [aka Zac's cart] and plan to get as many in as possible before he leaves. The following photo gallery is from our some ...

Tacoboy was checking NOOA this morning and said it looks like tropical depression 5 is heading our way. Currently it is still moving towards towards Puerto Rico, passing Jamaica Monday and Cuba on Tuesday. That is a long way off and anything is subject to change, but due to the path shown it is worth keeping an eye on. Not long after I started writing this post, I got an email Lily Bowman Director General f ...

One of the reasons I love living in Belize, sometimes brings an invite for a Tuesday birthday sailing trip on a catamaran with old friends, and  a chance to meeting some new people. I started with a very an early morning as I had to meet Cowboy Doug by 7:00am at Reef Radio and TV as we were doing the morning show with Eiden Salazar to promote 2012 Lobsterfest, Lobstermainia Pool party and Pedro's Inn Libert ...

One of my longtime readers Jenny and her family always fly Municipal to save a few dollars.This time she and her husband Brad were coming down for a solo trip and out of habit she got me to book them through Belize Municipal Airport then she wrote me back and said she realized that since there were only two of them she wanted to make it easy fly to San Pedro from Belize International Airport instead. Since ...

San Pedro Belize Sailing News. April 10, 2012 Race to the Hotel On Easter Saturday, twelve intrepid members of the San Pedro Youth Sailing program, two in each boat, raced round trip between Caribbean Villas and The Hotel.  During intermission at the new Hotel's Molly Malone’s  Pub treated them to a leisurely and hardy lunch of hot dogs, mac & cheese, and drinks. Then the sailors changed crew mates and ...

Kids are now sailing to prepare for the 2012  North American Sailing Championships in Mexico this year. The Belize Sailing Association has just asked the San Pedro Sailing Club to prepare a youth team to represent Belize in the 2012 Optimist Class North American Sailing Championships.  This championship is open to sailors from all countries.  The week-long event  will take place October 20 – 28 at Valle del ...

Today's tacogirl blog guest post comes from Lucy Wallingford,  she has a unique story to tell as she has been involved with Belize since the 80's and seen a lot of changes over the years.  You will be hearing more from Lucy in future guest posts. We first thought about running the Caves Branch River in the mid 1980’s. This was the only underground river run we had ever heard of. We had some basic informatio ...

Got an email from Lara asking if  I could blog that 15 tickets are still available for tonight's aids awareness event and the 6th annual San Pedro Boat parade, I told her I would get done when I got home. Thanks to wordpress app for android phones, I am able to do the writing from Dicks house and I can upload pics for post when I get home to my desk. Aids Awareness Dinner at tonight - Three Course Meal at C ...

This morning on tripadvisor post about where to stay on Ambergris Caye, part of what the person wanted to know was recommends on a few San Pedro Belize Beach Bars. I decided I would include my answer in today's blog along with the beach pictures from our Garifuna Day afternoon walk. North of the Bridge Grand Caribe - has a great swim up pool bar on the ocean - largest pool in Belize. [food available] Palapa ...