Heavy rain ALL NIGHT.\u00a0 Still raining in the AM.\u00a0 Free coffee (real brewed coffee, a rarity here) in the hotel lobby.\u00a0\u00a0Met a fellow from the US named Kevin who travels often in Belize, and gave us lots of good info. on Belmopan.\u00a0 I rode around to several parts stores looking for stuff we needed for the bikes, but no luck.<\/p>\n
Kevin bought us breakfast at one of the few non-chinese restaurants in this town.\u00a0 Then we headed out towards Belize city.\u00a0 Paid a whole $.35 road toll, and made good time to Belize City.\u00a0 Rain, rain, rain.\u00a0 Took a lot of searching and asking until we finally found Ben Quip, a real motorcycle parts place.\u00a0 Lots of friendly folks willing to stop and help us out.\u00a0 Everyone seems super nice, and very friendly.\u00a0 Got the spark plugs, filter oil, and drive chains we needed.\u00a0 That is a real relief!\u00a0 But it cost us $250 US.<\/p>\n
We spent some time looking around Belize City;\u00a0 not much to say for it, other than friendly english-speaking natives.\u00a0 We stopped for a couple of over-priced drinks at an ocean-side hotel, and decided to continue inland to Belmopan.<\/p>\n
Rain, cold, dark; soaked and tired.\u00a0 We tried at 5 hotels before we found a cheap room.\u00a0\u00a0Went to an ‘Italian’ (not really) place and had a very decent pizza for dinner. No internet or phone, everything damp or worse; a real shit-hole room with barking dogs and poor ventilation.\u00a0 Not our best day.<\/p>\n
This is Belize’s capital city – that is just unbelievable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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