The Heart of Nature – Belize
Posted on September 2, 2010 in Holy Cross School, Island Life, Useful information
Things are moving right along – Harold [and Gayle Cox] emailed me wanting to donate $100 usd towards a wheelbarrow and possibly a back support belt. He asked if I could find out of Pedro’s Hotel would allow him to run his card there since they know him from a recent visit – Pedro was [...]
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If you somehow have not seen my facebook invitation I am putting it here too. FB was acting up when I was making it and I am pretty sire people either did not get it or got it more than once.
The first donation from items off Eric’s list has come in. I got a pm [...]
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I was excited when Forrest agreed to do a spotlight. He is a very interesting person and I knew what he had to say would be good reading and was looking forward to learning more about him. Feel free to leave comment for Forrest and say hi.
What’s your claim to fame?
Being able to [...]
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Northbound to Athens Gate
Posted on August 29, 2010 in Eat - Sleep - Drink, Island Life, Travel, tacogirl Specials
As we continue on the Resort crawl our next stop is Athens Gate – which is a few minutes north of Pelican Reef and still in the 3 miles south range. It is just as nice as Pelican Reef but in a different way – who ever decorated this one likes stripes and interesting prints. [...]
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Southbound to Belize Paradise
Posted on August 28, 2010 in Eat - Sleep - Drink, Island Life, tacogirl Specials
Coming at you like from Pelican Reef Villas. So glad to be here and just be able to take a break for a while. This past week has been overwhelming and fantastic new ideas regarding San Mateo keep coming up all the time. Going to go celebrate with a sandwich in a min and some [...]
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The whirlwind continues I am taking the girls up north on a field trip today. We will go catch the boat at 10:am to Sueno del Mar meet up with Carole who is already there and then do the mile walk up the beach to Coleen and Ricks place. Neither Cathy or Heather have been [...]
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It’s 5:45 am – having a hard time snapping my head into place. Today is the big day starting with the morning show. After that hoping we get some down time before we have to go pick up Lucien from the Planetary Coral Reef foundation and waste water Garden rep for Belize. We are taking [...]
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Belize History in the Making
Posted on August 25, 2010 in Go Green, Holy Cross School, Island Life, Useful information
This is a very interesting and important time in the history of Ambergris Caye and Belize - last night Heather Cathy and I literally ’shot the shit’ and had a great brainstorming session. They told me all about their day and by the end of our chat we had filled in a couple of new [...]
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Heather and Cathy two of the Direct Abundance girls are back and following the ever popular trend of voluntourism by taking a fabulous tropical vacation and volunteering while here. According to a poll conducted by Condé Nast Traveler and MS-NBC – only fourteen percent of Americans have taken a volunteer holiday, but fifty-five percent say [...]
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As I mentioned in last Friday’s post about Wine de Vine wine night I met Susan Carter Manager of Carib Pro. I found her very interesting and asked if she would like a Spotlight on tacogirl – not only did she graciously agree she returned my questions super fast.
What’s your claim to fame?
I doubt [...]
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I am behind at backing up my computer due to not being ready to take the time to organize it all. I kept getting the feeling of not letting it sit to long so my perfect solution – chuck it all on my 16 gig flash drive for now and then at least it is [...]
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The clouds to the north east this morning were mountainous – Huge and fluffy. I took a few pictures came in to see what they looked like on my lap top went out to take a few more and it had completely changed to blanket looking clouds within 5 minutes.
The Weather here in Belize can [...]
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Question for everyone – Why is it than often when something our way comes that we have been asking for we get all skeptical and start looking for holes when it happens?
Been babysitting Molly and Basil since Sunday. Molly has been staying here but we left Basil at home and just go over there to [...]
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Flash back to Sunday – We really needed a quiet break from it all and wanted to try somewhere new but not go to far way. I could not think of a better choice than The Phoenix Resort – a luxury resort within walking distance to downtown San Pedro. Checked in a bit after noon [...]
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What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
Posted on August 16, 2010 in Guest Contributors, Island Life, Travel
I met Jason on Expat Blog [I think] and he was agreeable doing a guest post – I gave him my email and left it at that. Then one day not to long after I got an email from him and as promised he had written about a funny experience he has 20 [...]
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Last nights poker crawl was a blast. We started out at Roadkill – once everyone was signed in and had a drink or two Matt and Robbie got the cards ready and one by one a card was picked for all the crawlers and written down on paper then off we went like a herd [...]
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Tonight was a first for me at one of the well known San Pedro Social Clubs – Wine de Vine on a Friday night. Ann had suggested it would be a good spot to meet up with Susan Carter managing editor of Caribbean Property and Lifestyles Magazine – this is a great site to [...]
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