Guess I've stayed out too long enough.

Dan has legitimate complaints but I'll admit when I read his story I thought he was full of sh.t. The reason being that, having such a passion for this place, I was P.O'd about the inaccuracies in the story. Personally if you have a beef I don't have a problem with it being posted and in most cases it's helpful to hear them. When you cross the line and embellish, omit important information or just plain old make things up you should be prepared for an onslaught. If you aren't factual or omit important information then the rest of your post comes into question.

As a local (gringo) I know I tend to jump on anything inflammatory because, in general, that's what it's meant to be, inflammatory. Not a piece of writing intended to be informative or helpful. I will continue to be that way because in the end when the truth comes out about a lot of the more inflammatory articles about Belize it's rarely reported and only the bad taste of the original report remains. "Gringo Killed in Central America", you never hear that the person was a) involved in the drug trade, b) screwing some guys 13 year old daughter or c) in some other way given his due. Of course bad things do happen here that are worthy of reporting but only in a factual or balanced way. Why bother having this forum in the first place if not.

On the practice of jumping on people's stupidity and flogging them to death over and over again; while some may take some pleasure in it, it's a total waste of time and dilutes the message so much as to make any comments on the post worthless.

My Wednesday morning 2 cents. Oh, and I did love the Cave Tubing part.