The contrasts one can experience in a short period of time through air travel are mind-boggling. I would also have to say these contrasts are body-boggling. Luckily both my mind and my body adjust quickly and easily.
The simplicity of life here in Belize compared to New York City is remarkable and mind-boggling. What we need here to survive and thrive is so much less than NYC. It is a dynamic change.
My body thrives on the constant warmth. Since arriving here three days ago cold has not once assaulted this old body. Instead my body is caressed by sun and warm sea breezes. Stress, aches and pains all melt away. We pass the days, evenings and nights doing what ever occurs to us. Wandering the streets of Placencia Village where the main street is a sidewalk just wide enough for two people and then walk Maya Beach. We stop for morning coffee in an open-air cafe. we sit just feet from the un-occupied white sand beach and the Caribbean Sea. The pictures to your left are two small representations of this place.
Everyone we meet as we stroll greets us warmly. We wonder into a bar built on a dock sticking out into the Sea. Sampling the Belize National beer called Belikin we find it delicious and refreshing. The owner tells us people from New York usually only stay a couple of days because they are in such a hurry. We tell him we have seven days. There is a sign over the bar that is mind-boggling. The message:
Great people talk about ideas
Average people talk about things
Small people talk about other people
That gives us something to think about in this small, unusual out-of-the-mainstream nation in Latin America.
Stan the Man
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