Articles tagged with belize:
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls. Or Do. Just Maybe Don't Jump Off Nearby Cliffs
In which I learn that, although twenty-five feet doesn’t sound high, when you’re getting ready to jump off of it, is IS – and that even if you’re jumping into water, when jumping from twenty-five feet up, it hurts when you land. It really, really hurts.
Sink or Swim
To celebrate my arrival in Belize I decided, with my friends Vanessa and Terri, to journey to a 200,000-year old cave where the Mayans used to sacrifice people and swim through the river that runs through it, which is called in Mayan something that I believe translates into “beautiful underground waters that once ran red with sacrificial blood and may yet again since they are now filled with stupid Americans wearing headlamps who think it will be fun to dogpaddle against raging currents and climb up the sides of roaring waterfalls.”
