Archive for 'Living in Belize'
Waiting on a Friend
Posted on February 21, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize
The countdown is really on, one of my good friends [lucky to have many] is coming home for 1 week. He arrives today on the 1:40pm flight. I can’t wait to enjoy a week of all the things we do together like running errands, window shopping at the hardware store, hanging out on docks taking [...]
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Slowdown
Posted on February 19, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize
Funny how sometimes life forces you to slowdown whether you want to or not. I have been experiencing a major slowdown on my lap top so I decided to do a bit of organizing and put everything back in the right folders, disc clean up and defrag. 784,611 kb w0rth of deletable bits for c [...]
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Weather lore
Posted on February 5, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather, Water fun
Yesterday was cold gray and wet. Not the best weather to be thinking about a sunset cruise or a wedding [happening at Grand Caribe] I started putting my thoughts out there to have a nice day for the wedding party and our boat crew and it seems to have worked so far. I woke up [...]
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Piranha tech day
Posted on January 27, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize
Today is turning into a piranha tech day – piranha is my new term for grouchy thanks to Dr Al. Trying to take a document picture on my Olympus Stylus Tough camera, it keeps coming out fuzzy, I have absolutely no idea why and the manual is no help. I also noticed my delete button [...]
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Record High
Posted on January 26, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Useful Information
Today was a record high of 23 people at Eileen’s aquafit class and Tuesday 22. I have really missed my social pool time and find that getting back to class has really been helping my foot recover even though I cannot make it through a full one yet. If you have not already done so [...]
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Exploring Caves Branch River in the early 80s
Posted on January 18, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Guest posts, Living in Belize, Travel
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 [...]
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GSM technology in Belize
Posted on January 15, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Useful Information
Of the major North American cell phone carriers AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM technology which requires a sim card and is compatible with Digicell Belize. Smart phone company requires an unlocked phone with CDMA 800 MHz or 850 MHz technology and will work with Verizon. Advantages of CDMA is that it does provide a better [...]
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San Pedro Belize Trivia update
Posted on January 13, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize
Belize trivia update – Wednesday night Paul Cindy and Andy went to Legends Trivia night and ended up getting smoked by the the Flaming Avocados. Last night at Roadkill bar trivia, Pedro, Andy and Cindy got done in by the Roadkillers. Not our teams week for trivia. While they were out having fun being smart [...]
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Android blogging
Posted on January 11, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather, Useful Information
Been playing around with my wordpress app this morning to see what the new update can do. There seems to be a lot more functionality for the dashboard and within the posts themselves, such as uploading pictures or video. One downside so far, I was not able to find a view all drafts option that [...]
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The irony is not lost
Posted on January 10, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Useful Information
As I lay in bed icing my foot, I got to thinking about my fate Sunday, I wanted to let you know the irony is not lost. The fact that I was wearing a hat to bed 7 nights ago because I was cold and now I am wearing ice packs instead is very ironic. [...]
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San Pedro Lobsterfest 2012 Dates Announced
Posted on January 5, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather, Useful Information, Volunteer Belize
My San Pedro Belize weather report – as of last night I have progressed to wearing my Old Navy polar fleece toque to sleep. I felt like a burrito with my hat on all wrapped up in bed and had major layering going on – 2 sheets, 1 duvet cover, 1 sarong and 2 airline [...]
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Es Muy Frío
Posted on January 4, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather
The wind is howling and it is freezing right now. I am sure some of you who are dealing with real cold, snow and slush are thinking cry me a river, at least you get to turn the heat up. I am wearing long sleeves, a jacket, jeans, socks, bandanna on my head and I am [...]
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Bonne année et bonne santé
Posted on January 3, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather, Useful Information
Hope the New Year is going well for all of you in spite of any bad weather you might be experiencing – for us it is cold and wind today but at least it is not raining. I picked the title for this post to wish everyone a great year and good health. Bonne année [...]
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Rumbling thunder and Island showers
Posted on January 2, 2012 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize
Mother nature is definitely starting us off in 2012 with island showers and a clean Ambergris Caye. It has not stopped raining long enough for me to make a break for it and head to town to do my errands. The ominous sound of rumbling thunder is making me think I am either going to [...]
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AWOL
Posted on December 20, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather
People watching by Central park with Dick, we are waiting on Gigi and Zac who are down the road shopping. Thanks to Cafe Cubano, I am starting this post on my android and can finish it later when I get back to my desk. They all joined up to do a group errand run and [...]
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Wish you were here backgammon breakfast
Posted on December 18, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Videos
24 confirmed and 15 maybe for today’s Wish you were Here Backgammon breakfast at Estel’s. My brother Rob said on the invite said he’ll be there in spirit! Come on double sixes! and Robyn commented on tacogirl facebook page and mentioned she will be tuning in on taco cam from Missouri and eating a piece [...]
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Sol Farms Organic Produce
Posted on December 15, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Useful Information
So happy we are back on track, 5 of us just got a shipment of organic vegetables from Sol Farms yesterday evening – Thanks Greg and all who helped to put the veggies on our tables. I need them now more than ever, the cold I had kicked [except for low energy part] came back [...]
