What it was like before Running Water & Electricity
Looking back on the last 30-odd years I’ve been pondering life in Belize when we first arrived. Visitors to Belize Botanic Gardens often ask what it was like here in the days before electricity and running water… Well my favorite book growing up was Swiss Family Robinson so a family adventure always had a special appeal to me.
One big difference though was that the Robinson’s were shipwrecked on an island with a ship loaded with supplies. When they ran out of good stuff – like fine wines, cheese, chocolate, as well as essential items , they merely rowed their dinghy out to the ship and brought back what they needed … while on the other hand, for us it was a hard-driven 10 miles to reach San Ignacio in an hour and change (each-way), with more riding around town in order to find the basics … and there was definitely a shortage of fine wines and cheese!!
