A long and varied travel day (walk, bus, taxi, bus, taxi, ferry, walk) from Playa del Carmen in Mexico to Caye Caulker in Belize. We had our first "chicken" bus for the trip crossing the border to eventually get to Belize City. This took 4 hours.

Central America is where the American's school buses come to retire. The seats are made for children ... In fact the seat markings said 3 per seat!

The fast ferry sped its way the 45 minutes over to Caye Caulker, a small limestone coral island. We were going to paradise so it was claimed … was it worth it? Yes ... On arrival one could almost immediately feel the relaxed laid back atmosphere of the island. Walking along Front Street to our hotel, we only had to avoid just the golf carts, bicycles and recent rained filled pot holes on the sand base street. No foot paths.