We needed to start making our way back towards Belize City so that Randi and Amy could catch their flight home. We found a place near Belmopan where you can rent tiny houses and also camp, and Randi and Amy were happy to have a real bed for a night.

We all enjoyed their indoor space until late into the evening. In the morning I took a shower in the outdoor shower next to one of the tiny houses. We had a few hours to kill so we drove to the Bermudian Landing Baboon Reserve. The reserve is an area where several towns and farmers have banded together and have agreed to leave habitat for howler monkeys, what the locals call baboons. When we got there, there was no one around at the reserve, but there were trails along the river, so we walked around ourselves for a little while. It was pretty buggy, but eventually we got to see these guys.

We headed back to the International Airport, where we said our goodbyes to Randi and Amy. It was fun to have them with us for a couple of weeks, and although regaining extra space in the truck was going to be nice, my heart sunk a bit as I watched them walk into the airport. It was my first real intense feeling of homesickness since the trip has begun.

We decided to head to the Old Belize Marina to camp, wanting to spend some time cleaning the truck and camper, maybe work on the fridge some more, catch up on some internet. The internet ended up being pretty slow, but we did wash the truck and clean inside the truck and camper. We also plugged in the fridge, and on electricity it worked well….Derek had done some percussive maintenance on it a day or two before (you know, where you bang something with a wrench or other tool to make it work better) , and had seen some debris come out of the flue….Anyway, we decided that if it was working well on electric, and we could get it to work reasonably well on propane, that there wasn’t that much that needed fixing. It may be that the quality of the propane here affected the cooling and that the overall temperature was too high for the unit to keep up… Needless to say the saga of the fridge is not over so stay tuned.

We left the marina after two days and headed towards the border, spending another night at Clarissa Falls so that we could cross the border early the next day. The crossing was quick and easy.

We arrived in the small town of El Remate with the intention of visiting Guatemala’s largest and best known ruin, Tikal, the next day.