by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 11, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
September 2 Life in the jungle: I slept like crap last night again. It rained all through the night and was still raining when I woke up. I didn’t even bother bringing my city footwear, I was going to the city in rainboots. Most of my road was a river of...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 7, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
August 24 Life in the jungle: I woke up at 5 AM, with the stress of a rotting and costly house deck falling back asleep was not possible. [See photos in last blog post.] I started my morning chopping the coconut field. After breakfast I cut the grass at the ponds. ...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 7, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
August 20 Life in the jungle: Orlando and Joseph came this morning. We finished installing the door on the apartment and we put the roof on the front entrance of the greenhouse. [The door was actually shipped damaged and I would return and replace it a month...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 7, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
August 9 Life in the jungle: Orlando and Joseph showed up this morning. We replaced the larger section of the house roof with the new zinc roofing that was delivered the other week. We got lucky with no rain all day. After they left, I cleaned everything up and...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 24, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
August 1 Life in the jungle: Over two months ago I got sick. This morning I had another cough attack. Everything is pretty wet outside. There is no point in working outside today. Everything will turn to mud quickly. I started writing Chapter 1 of my new book...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 24, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
July 27 Life in the jungle: In four days it will be two months ago that I got sick with a chronic cough and the coughing returned again last night. Another sleepless night. This morning I was up early to head back to Belmopan. [Last week I discovered that likely...
