Caye Caulker
The Belize chapter opens on a tiny Caribbean island where sandy streets, reef water and the instruction to “Go Slow” immediately change the rhythm of the journey.
Part I · 2022
Belize
Belize · September 2022
The road learns how to go slow.
Belize begins in the cayes, crosses the reef to San Pedro, returns to island life and then moves south through Garifuna communities, jungle parks and the compact interior before San Ignacio.
The pace shifts from sightseeing to diving, paddleboarding, rain, friendship and unplanned days. By the western border, the journey has gained both a new community and an obsession with the underwater world.
7
Stages across Belize
3
Weeks on the route
1
Open Water certification
5
First logged dives
Before the diary
About Belize.
Begin with the country itself - its land, people and history - before following the journal from the Caribbean cayes to the Guatemalan border.
Read Chapter I.II
Seven stages between reef and rainforest.
Each card follows one stage of the Belize route, with its journal entries kept in chronological order.
After Belize
Three slower weeks close with a new dive certification, unexpected intimacy, hurricane near-misses and a growing understanding that travelling does not always need to mean constantly moving.
Sub umbra floreo.Belizean national motto
Under the shade I flourish.
What Belize becomes
A different way of travelling.
Belize changes both the pace of the journal and the kind of experiences that begin to define it.
The complete gap-year journal
Belize opens an entirely new world.
Continue through Central America, South America, Antarctica and the long route back home in the complete Reflections of a Roving Doctor collection.
The western border opens.
Belize ends in San Ignacio. The next chapter crosses into Guatemala for Flores, jungle treks, volcanic highlands and one of the route’s most demanding adventures.
Continue with Guatemala.