Our first trip to the tropics (south of Florida) was with 17 of Phil’s high school students and 3 other chaperones in 1997. And what an adventure it was. The trip was sponsored by Save the Rain Forest, a conservation organization based in Arizona, who work with rain forest conservation groups in several other countries in the tropics. The purpose is education – rain forest and coral reef ecology, conservation efforts, and sustainable living by the local, and in many cases indigenous, people.
From my stamp collecting days, I knew that Belize was a small country at the south end of the Yucatan Peninsula, that it had formerly been part of the United Kingdom and had been called British Honduras. I knew they spoke English (and also several native languages), were happy to accept US dollars, the only medical prep we would need was malaria pills, and the country was…
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