Belize 2000

Day 1

Sunrise from the balcony of our room.	The Chateau Caribbean Hotel

We got to Belize a day early, as travel to and from Belize is somewhat unreliable and catching up with a trip once it's underway is difficult and expensive. We all stayed at the Chateau Caribbean. Paul and I had a very nice room - enormous, with a separate sitting area and private balcony. Anne was not so lucky and got a more mundane room. The Carib has an air of faded grandeur about it, but was the most luxurious place we stayed all week.

Good omen #1: Paul, by coincidence, wound up sitting right behind me on the plane.

Good omen #2: The American Airlines magazine (motto: "a magazine worth reading if you're stuck in a seat for three hours") had an article about our trip!!!

The three of us had dinner and a drink at the Radisson up the street from our hotel. Back at our room, Anne and I groused about how we were going to have to rough it all week. Paul entertained us with stories of what conditions were like on his first adventure trip - the one to Southeast Asia in the 60's. Anne and I stopped complaining.

On to the next day ...

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