Moving to Belize Update; Costa Rica, Spiral Island in Mexico and preparing for Belize

Well, the ticket to Belize is booked again.  February 21^st, 2011 I will move back to the beautiful country of Belize for the second time.  As some of you may already know my first experience moving to Belize was in 2008 and I had no idea what to expect.  This time around it will be a much different experience.  I know what to pack in my bags, I know what to expect getting off the plane, I have friends and family there and I am going to be starting a future with the love of my life.  I am excited, but in a different way than I was before the first move.

I have two weeks before leaving for a week in Costa Rica and then 10 days after I get back from Costa Rica to prepare for my move to Belize.  I’ve already sifted through the few possessions I still have in the States so I don’t really need to do that.  Basically I will just be storing a few containers and packing my bags.  I have one and a half blank pages in my passport left which will be just enough to get to Costa Rica, through Mexico and in to Belize.  Then I’ll have to make a trip to the embassy in Belmopan to get some more pages put in.

My boyfriend is flying to Portland for a week prior to my departure to Belize to help me pack and will provide some extra luggage space.  Then we will both fly to Cancun, Mexico.  In my experience this has proven to be the cheapest route in or out of Belize to take.  So we will fly to Cancun and this time I am excited about a short visit to a spiral island made out of plastic bottles at Isla Mujeres.  Mr. “Rishi” Sowa has been working on this project for years now.  I found the information one day perusing BoingBoing.net and forwarded it onto my bf who since visited Rishi for a few days and was extremely impressed.  You can read the BoingBoing.com post here.  So we will spend a couple nights with him which I am very curious about.  Then it will be on to Belize.

I will post about Costa Rica and about Rishi’s spiral Island as those trips come and will keep the blog up to date about my preparations for moving to Belize.  Thanks everyone for reading and I hope some of the information here will be helpful for you!  As always, please leave a comment or send me an email if you have specific questions or topic suggestions.