The Found World of Quintana Roo

Adventures of a Father/Daughter team trekking the Mayan Coast of Mexico. Wendy Morrill is a research biochemist presently a lab manager for the Maine Institute for Human Genetics & Health in Bangor Maine involved in cancer research. She and her Dad, Richard Bailey, are avid hikers and explorers and recently hiked 450 miles along the coastal Yucatan Mexico, from Cancun to Belize. She would like to raise $5000 of donations for cancer research, once they cross the Central American Border.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Belize and Jail

This year our main obstacle is the Belize Border. In 1958, when Michael Peissel walked the Yucatan Mayan coast and crossed the Belize Border, he ended up in the Belize jail because he crossed the border illegally. There is no official border crossing along the way from XCalak. The nearest border crossing is maybe 100 miles thru jungle, swamp and mangrove in Corozal Belize. I have emailed several officials in the US/Belize immigration and border patrol, as well as the Belize Travel Board with an official letter of request. I have not gotten an answer.

Even though I would like to get to the official Belize border crossing by going thru the jungle, mangroves and swamps, that is not going to happen. I have heard thru the internet that there is a boat going from XCalak to Ambergris Caye, but we won't know until we get there. I suppose I might have to talk my dad into letting me use my machete and cut a path thru the jungle. ?