My Salty Suitcase

Time to Tropicalize Ah, Belize! I would say I’m in love, but, as I told Dad the other day, I’ve also fallen in love with the Bahamas, French Polynesia, Georgia, Mexico, the Gold Coast, etc,. So I think I’m really just in love with travel. Fernweh. Anyway, enough about my personal wanderlust, you want to hear about Belize! Old-school Belizean fisherman After leaving Mexico, my family and I had originally planned to go straight to the Belizean outer reef atolls and skip the mainland totally. But after two weeks of ocean travel and rolly anchorages, we were ready for some solid land. Cutting through a pass in the reef, we headed southwest for Dangriga, where we planned to clear customs and pick up some much-needed fresh provisions. As usual, we got more than we bargained for… We chucked the anchor down in a spot off Dangriga that seemed as rolly as the ocean we had just left; Jasamine rocked incessantly almost porthole to porthole with the swell. Leaving a green Mom o