Belize Border

We've left Mexico after 1 months and 11 days.  Certainly longer than we had planned, but the two weeks it took to get my clutch fixed, and the week we spent waiting on parts for Neals bike set us back a bit on our non-schedule.

It was a short ride in to Chechumal and then to the Belize border.  We had to first surrender our Tourist cards at one Kiosk. 

This got us our passport exit stamp.

Then we moved on to the bike paperwork, which we also had to turn over at another office, so they could log our bikes out of the country.

We were then free to enter Belize, where we purchased insurance, had our passports stamped, and our bikes registered.  We also had to have the bikes fumigated, but it was such a half assed job, I'm not sure what it accomplished.

A guy with a mask came out of a little hut, waved the spayer at the bikes for a couple seconds, then yelled at me for taking his picture before disappearing back into his hut.

Fumigating the bikes.  I got yelled at for taking this picture.

Total time for both borders was less than an hour.

Belize feels surreal to us, as it is a Central American country, but the official language is English.  As a former British Colony (formerly British Honduras), it achieved independence in 1981.

We only rode a short distance today, booked into a small hotel in a small town. 

We needed to do our first oil change of the trip on the bikes.  When I undid my skid plate, I noticed a dead bird in my bike.  I had remembered earlier in the day seeing a bird fly out of the bushes by the road right at me, but I had assumed he had swerved at the last moment.  Sadly, he hadn't.  :(

We went out and walked around a bit tonight.  It's not a tourist town, so we get A LOT of looks, both on the bikes today and walking around.  But everyone speaks English, and all the signs are in English, so it's all understandable.  All the Christmas decorations are up, including a nice christmas tree in the town square.