DREAMS: A few nights ago I was back at the gleaming coal mine that the Mayan Dream Tribe had previously taken me to (coal – co-all). Or rather I was hovering above it, feeling my cells struggling to realign themselves so that I could flow deeper into the earth; at the same time I felt […]
Author Archives: John Sacelli
Leaving Belize
THE REEF: The dorado and barracuda pictured left were caught just outside the reef on the one day winds were calm enough to let us through. Other days we fished inside the reef for snapper, jack and smaller barracuda. The Belize reef is the 2nd largest in the world, after the Great Barrier reef. Ocean […]
Yaxha and Belize
Yaxha (yack-sha) has water. Big lake. Don’t swim in it – cayman. Small crocs, but you may not get that arm or leg back. Down an 11 km rutted dirt road. Kinda peaceful. About one-fifth the size of Tikal, way less than 1/10 the tourists, we actually walked the whole thing in one day. But […]
Tikal
We went to bed with howler monkeys outside our window, trying to convince the world of their status as large apex predators, guarding territory. “Tikal is not the name the people used for this place,” our guide the next day explained in passable Spanglish. “It’s the name people used later. Like ‘echo’. The whisper of […]