by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride, My Blog, Personal Reflection
26,000 km through a Canadian winter, through Covid-19 across Canada, down the USA, and across Mexico, still during Covid-19, and I am still me. I figured if I bike-toured through a Canadian winter, a different me would come out on the other side. Little did I know...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
February 4 Life in the jungle: After doing laundry, first thing Heath and I biked 20 km’s to Rancho Delores to visit the farm Nery has worked at for the last 20 years. They grow like 9 types of bamboo. The bamboo is grown mostly for furniture but they...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 26 Life in the jungle: With Nery coming this afternoon to look at my fencing project my priority was cleaning my last fence line on my home property that runs along the road. I got a good section cleaned up but it is slow going with cleaning out the spiny...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
A while back, I believe sometime in 2016 I realized that I was not a very happy person and that I was a very lonely person. And for the first time I actually questioned that and asked myself if this was how I wanted to live the rest of my life. I realized that my...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 21 Life in the jungle: I started my morning continuing and hoping to finish digging my waterline trench. I did get a pleasant surprise when I dug up a Mexican Burrowing Narrow-mouthed toad. And I did not get far into my morning when it started to pour rain. ...
