Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but it played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
– Pat Conroy
Monday, March 19, 2012 (DAY 15)
Since the British girls had left at sunrise the previous morning for a seven day sailing adventure to Belize, each of us quickly move to new real estate–claiming the much desired bottom bunks below our respective beds–I feel more at ease with the knowledge that it is a 2-foot drop to the hard stone and mortar floor as opposed to a possibly bone crunching crash. Wishing we had another day at El Retiro and cursing our one night stop in Coban, we feel the need to get moving since I am trying to make it to Poptun, Peten by mid-week and Char and Tim have less than two weeks before returning to Vancouver.
Since the British girls had left at sunrise the previous morning for a seven day sailing adventure to Belize, each of us quickly move to new real estate–claiming the much desired bottom bunks below our respective beds–I feel more at ease with the knowledge that it is a 2-foot drop to the hard stone and mortar floor as opposed to a possibly bone crunching crash. Wishing we had another day at El Retiro and cursing our one night stop in Coban, we feel the need to get moving since I am trying to make it to Poptun, Peten by mid-week and Char and Tim have less than two weeks before returning to Vancouver.
Little do we know that we are about to experience the longest bus ride of our travels together, almost ten hours later, and we are finally crossing the bridge into Rio Dulce (and Gabanna) as Char continued to call it. Stretching our legs before briefly climbing aboard a small motorboat, the sun is setting behind us creating the perfect photo opportunity. The lights of Casa Perico are glowing as we reach the dock. The initial impression of the place is something out of a movie, tiki huts that are connected by a series of wooden docks as water passes underneath, the orchestra of the jungle coming to life as night falls, and a large common area that looks out over the water surrounded by thick foliage which is engulfed in complete darkness as the absence of any lights or other structures surrounds the property. Completely exhausted from the long hot bus ride, and it is an early night.
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