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Tom's blog: "Me"

created on 12/03/2007  |  http://fubar.com/me/b163033
Not one to buck tradition, so during the flight back to the US form Mexico, I wrote down a few of my new year’s resolutions. * Develop a convincing English accent * Visit three more new countries. * Benchpress 365 lbs (currently 295lbs!) * Learn to bake fantastic bread * Work at McDonalds for a week * Direct a documentary * Make a funny movie for the Gangrene Film Festival * Become SCUBA certified * Get my motorcycle drivers license * Publish three books, including a book on politics * Learn to play three songs on the guitar * Sky dive * See Luvstattoo7 naked * Buy 1 acre of land and dig a 100 ft deep hole with a backhoe in one month
An older brother and my younger sister accompanied me on the recent Belize trip. We haven’t spent that amount of time together, in, well, forever. You get to know a LOT about a person by hanging out with them 24/7. My brother, in particular, uttered some noteworthy things, which I happened to jot down in my pocket notebook for your review. Said he: * “He couldn’t talk his way out of a paper box.” [When speaking about a negotiator he once met at a party] * “Hey, bro, get me a Diet Dr. Pepper, will ya?” [When, after stopping at a dilapidated, lean-to of a gas station in the middle of rural, back country Mexico, I went to get a beverage.] * “I scanned it. It’s not there.” [We were gathered around a map of the island of Ambergris Caye, trying to find a hotel in the list. The hotel was in the list, and I found it a moment after his declaration. * “Sis, I’m your brother, not a complaint department.” [You’ll have to ask the sister about this one…] * “This is not a Diet Pepsi. It’s a Diet Pepsi mixed with the urine of a mountain cow.” [Upon drinking a Belizian Diet Pepsi] * “We should check out the underground scene. There’s probably naked cave tubing.” [Ruminating on a night’s potential activities…] * “Did everyone bring their club shirts?” [Immediately after producing a flamboyant black shirt with a flashy, stitched design from his backpack.]

Plans for christmas

This year I’ll be spending Christmas (and the week after) in Belize with my brother and sister. It all started a few months ago when my sister called me and asked if I wanted to go to Belize. “Sure,” I said, quickly Googling Belize, “I’d love to go to that great …. Central American country under Mexico.” So, maybe you’d like to learn about Belize too? Here’s what I learned: * Slightly larger than Massachusetts * Belize (formerly British Honduras until the name of the country was changed in 1973) * Bounded on the north and part of the west by Mexico, and on the south and the remainder of the west by Guatemala * National Bird: The Keel Billed Toucan * National Animal: The Tapir or Mountain Cow * belize2.jpgMore than 500 Mayan ruins dot the country * Caracol is the largest of Belize’s Mayan ruins. One pyramid is one hundred and forty feet high, the tallest man-made structure in Belize * Belize also consists of over 200 cayes (islands) * English is the official language and is widely spoken, as is Spanish. Other languages include Creole, German, Mayan and Garifuna * Some tourists prefer to fly into Cancun as air fares are cheap. Then from Cancun catch the ADO air conditioned buses to Belize - about a 4 hour ride * The 2nd smallest country in Central America * The capital is Belmopan, 35 miles inland from Belize City * About 1/3 of the country’s population lives in Belize City * Member of British Commonwealth * Approximately 30% of all Belizeans live outside the country * Belize became a British Colony in 1862 * Most (60%) of Belizeans are bilingual (mostly English/Spanish) * Creole: make up the majority population (60%); generally the offspring of the original English & Scottish settlers who married freed African slaves * Mestizos: (Latinos): a mixture of Amerindians (often Maya) with Spanish (Mexican) blood; mostly mixed-race slaves who entered from the Yucatan during the War of the Races (ca. 1847-48); approx. 20% of the population * Garifuna: blacks of mixed African & Carib Indian ancestry; many were forcibly expelled from the West Indes in 1797; approx. 20% of the population * 70% of Belize is still covered by forest * Belize has the 2nd largest coastal barrier reef in the world, which runs 10-40 miles offshore along the entire 185-mile length of Belize’s coast * The region receives over 150 inches of rain/year * Population of approximately 239,000

My travels

places I've been: Inside the US: New York City, NY Seattle, WA Los Angelos, CA Palo Alto, CA Washington D.C. Jackson Hole, WY Los Vegas, NV Wendover, NV Honalulu, HI Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Hoover Dam, Nevada/Arizona border Fruita, CO Fort Collins, CO Cleveland & Kirtland, Ohio Houston, TX Dalas, TX Fort Worth, TX Outside the US: (Now on a Google Map!) Brazil (for a week, Rio and Manaus) Taiwan (for a couple of weeks) Switzerland (for a year) Costa Rica (for a couple of weeks) England (a couple of days) France (over a year) Italy (a week) Germany (a couple of days) Austria (only briefly, driving through) Ivory Coast (a week or so) Togo (the airport only) Japan (the Tokyo airport only) Mexico (for about a week) Canada (briefly, Niagara Falls) places I'd like to go sometime: Other parts of Africa Russia Former soviet republics China Norway/Denmark/Netherlands New Zealand
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