by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 28, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
May 28 Life in the jungle: It must have rained most of the night and into the morning. The road is drenched and it was a wet bike ride to the bus in the rain. I bussed it to Belize City and then caught a bus to the Agricultural Fair in Belmopan. There was only 1...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 25, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
May 22 Life in the jungle: I was expecting to wake up to heavy rain. It never came. I woke up and went down to my hammock and ended up sleeping until 10 AM. My day was spent completing my watermelon greenhouse framing and fastening the plastic wire mesh. I was...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 19, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
May 17 Life in the jungle: Because of how I felt last night before bed I didn’t set my alarm. While I don’t feel sick my allergies are really bad and it feels like I have a cold when I sneeze but I don’t think I do. When I finally got moving about,...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 11, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
April 30 Life in the jungle: Because of my late-night last night I turned off my alarm. Nery called and woke me up at 6:45 AM this morning from my driveway. Usually, he showed up closer to 9 AM on the weekends to start work. The day became a pretty full day working...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jun 30, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
In 2010 Hurricane Richard a Category 1 hurricane hit on October 25th. There was tremendous yard damage due to fallen trees. I was without power for one week. Truthfully all I remember is that it took nearly an entire month to clean the yard up and, in the end, I...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jun 12, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
April 24 Life in the jungle: I had a dream last night and a girl from my teenage social circle made a very brief appearance. That inspired a quick morning poem called l should have told you. From there I went to the ponds for a few hours of work. After breakfast, I...
