Belize

After a complete eight hours of sleep. It was back to Isle de Flores to interview Mr.Ortiz. We learned that Temples at Tikal were in the shape of the star constellation Pleaties. It was Mr. Ortiz’s discovery of the Sixth Temple that revealed that this was the case.

It was time to leave Guatemala after eleven days. The trip was now two weeks old. Our next stop was Belize. We said goodbye to Walter our guide, and thought, “Oh crap we’re own our own again!” That hadn’t worked out to well through Mexico. Walter had arranged a police escort to the border. The police followed us for a measly twenty miles before leaving us an hour before before the border. (Right before the road turned to dirt.) We gave them their twenty dollar “tip”.

At the border we officially left Guatemala, parked the cars walked to Belize side where we ran into all sorts of problems. The Belize tourism office said everything would be set for us. So, Keith, when asked what we were doing, told the truth; We were shooting a TV show with the tourism board. Now they wanted a visa we didn’t have. Now what? We had left Guatemala, but weren’t being let into Belize. I had visions of living out my life in a gravel parking lot between the two borders.

On a whim, as Keith and the border guard were going back a forward, I said “But we aren’t filming now. We are scouting on this trip and won’t be filming till we return from Panama on our way back.” Keith, pauses for a moment at this blatant lie, before picking up the thread. I don’t think they believed us, but thrown a solution to what would otherwise be a big pain in the ass, they played along.

Now, I’m in a Belize hotel writing this. The Denver news channel is on the TV. Not sure why.