One of the things we enjoy locally in the Cedar Valley is traveling down the Black Hawk Creek. Last Saturday Emily, my friend Kevin and I took our maiden voyage for the summer. The Black Hawk Creek runs through both Waterloo and Cedar Falls among other places, so it is easy to access. This is …
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Couple of things
Since I’ve been home I have been talking with people about the trip and one thing came up yesterday about flights that everyone who’s traveling needs to keep an eye on. The airlines all have different rules for carryons. My friend back here is actually going to Belize in August and she is flying United, …
Blog Update Information
All: You probably all got some posts from me today about out trip to Peru 4 years ago. Bill and I have told several people that all of the information about our Peru trip is on the blog. I discovered today that I didn’t have the blog when we were in Peru. We did updates, …
Belize City and ATM
We made it to STL without issue. We are going to start planning and researching for our December trip soon, talks have already begun. We have been applying the things we have learned from our travels and hopefully we will make good choices. If anyone would like to tag along or meet up somewhere exotic …
Returning to the United States
It rained during the night fairly significantly and the morning started out looking fantastic. It was a shame that we were leaving as it would have been a good day to get out on the water. Riding in the water taxi the seas were mostly smooth. I had sat all the way to the front …
Rainy Last Day
I was hoping to have an exciting post for our last day, but no luck. It has rained all day long. It’s good that we didn’t come a week later because it’s supposed to rain all this week too and probably for the next few months. I’ve been in Costa Rica at the beginning of …
And she sings
We’ve come to the end of our time here in Caye Caulker, Belize. Final assessment, four days in the mainland was spot on. Had a good time and got to see a bit of Belize. Ten days on Caye Caulker, that’s hard to say. In general it’s probably too many days. There’s not a lot …
The Blue Hole Snorkeling Trip
We did a three stop tour with Frenchies Diving today. They start early die to the long trip out. They have you meet at 5:30, they do offer a breakfast. They could have also said come at six if you don’t want breakfast and things would have been fine. The spread was nothing to write …
Mixed Results for Night Snorkeling
I got to go night snorkeling last night and it was one of the best snorkel trips I’ve done! We saw so many animals. There were 2 octopuses – one was bright blue and turned a molted shade of bluish-brown while we were watching. The other was just a baby and it only had it’s …
Scuba diving in Belize.
I finally got to do a scuba dive. Sadly it ended up being just one. It was a good dive though and I am okay with things. Technically I did dive a second time and made it to the bottom but had to return to the surface due to a malfunctioning regulator. My spare had …
Traveling with Emily! 