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Orange Walk Belize:
Express air conditioned bus that got me up to Orange Walk from Belize City.
The idiot driver opened the roof hatch, completely defeating the air
conditioner... and grew surly when questioned!
Orange Walk Belize: Clock tower at the center of activity in this tiny town.
To the left of the tower is the city hall and main market area.
Orange Walk Belize: With such a small population I am amazed to see so many
people show up for this combination religious gathering - musical concert.
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August 2005
Hello
from Orange Walk Belize,
I
finished reading
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A
Story of Wall-street by Herman Melville of Mobi Dick fame
and a Sherlock Holmes classic, Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle. Bartleby is about a strange character who
works for an attorney copying documents in an era before the
existence of copy machines or typewriters. It offers a quirky
view of life in the 1800's. The Sherlock Holmes book seems to be
the first of the detective series as it describes the meeting of
Holmes and Watson. The book is also notable for its unusual
construction, being a story within a story, seemingly unrelated
until the very end... a masterful work.
I am
here in
Orange Walk
to be close to the
Lamanai National Park
with its Mayan ruins. Orange Walk, though hot is a rather
delightful farming town. People are earthy and friendly. My
$35 hotel, the St. Christopher is an excellent value.
Recently constructed, the rooms though not luxurious are
modern and well maintained. The day after I arrived I took
the $45 river cruise package offered by the owner of the
hotel. That night in my hotel
room an exhausted firefly blinked listlessly on the floor near
my bed, possibly the victim of insecticide used to discourage
mosquitoes in the room. Three
nights in Orange Walk gave me time to work at an acceptable cyber
cafe with FrontPage installed. In exchange for my cleaning up two of
his systems, the owner turned on the usually quiet (expensive to
run) air conditioners for me. Early the third morning I caught the
first air conditioned bus back toward Belize City and had the driver
drop me at the entrance to the airport access road. A half hour of
brisk walking got me to the terminal and as luck would have it, the
Copa Airline agent found a seat to Panama City later that day: total
fare including departure tax came to $304.
Peace,
Fred L Bellomy
PS: One of my Big Bear
writer friends, Katherine pointed out merely soaking beans a
long time in water will eliminate the legume's ability to
produce
flatulence
in the human gut. I didn't know that; did you?
Orange Walk Belize
Orange Walk Belize: Clock tower at the center of activity in this tiny town.
To the left of the tower is the city hall and main market area.
Orange Walk Belize: Public culture center near the river.
Orange Walk Belize: With such a small population I am amazed to see so many
people show up for this combination religious gathering - musical concert.
Orange Walk Belize: For some reason this small border town has a large
number of pawn shops like this one.
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Orange Walk Belize: This is the $46 St. Christopher Hotel I used for my
three day stay in the little farm town. Newly built, everything worked.
While it offered simple accommodations, I found it quite comfortable.
Orange Walk Belize: Big church in a small town, Inmaculada Cathedral.
Orange Walk Belize: Big church in a small town, Inmaculada Cathedral.
Orange Walk Belize: Monument to motherhood in the central park of Orange
Walk.
Orange
Walk Belize: Pretty flowers on the grounds of the Public culture center
near the river.
Orange Walk Belize: Entrance to the school connected to the Inmaculada
Cathedral.
Orange Walk Belize: Monument to motherhood in the central park of Orange
Walk.
Orange Walk Belize: Public culture center near the river.
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