{"id":14939,"date":"2016-03-11T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=14939"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:53:28","slug":"you-best-fuckin-belize-it-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2016\/03\/you-best-fuckin-belize-it-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"You Best Fuckin’ Belize It: Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"
Morning comes early in the tropics. The sleepy Caribbean beach towns come alive as early as 6am. We found ourselves up by 7 shaking off the fog of too many Belikin Lagers and copious amounts of Belizean One Barrel Rum from the previous night\u2019s local Garifuna band session. It was our first night and we went a little hard to celebrate, because the Caribbean that’s why. I was bummed to find that the first day of dirt bike ripping in paradise would be a wet one. The rain was falling in a steady, soaking mist which left for tons of puddles and mud to play in. I knew though, that rain could disappear in the blink of an eye as it tends to do down here.<\/p>\n
Only one joint in town was open for breakfast, which was exactly what was needed to come back to life. I shoved the tasty food and terrible coffee down my throat (side note: Belizeans don\u2019t do coffee. Which is strange considering their next door neighbor is Guatemala. Picture coffee flavored hot water, a la airline coffee). The anticipation of getting the bikes and ripping up the Stann Creek District was getting to me. As soon as we paid the bill, we headed across the street to Alternate Adventures and met the proprietor, Emma. After going over all the normal procedures when renting bikes, selecting helmets, and paying for the 3 days; we had in our possessions 2 cheap ass Chinese 4 stroke 200cc Meilun ML200GY-5\u2019s. Meilun bikes seemed to be the Belizean bike of choice. I saw only 5 other bikes the whole time here that were not Meilun\u2019s which is crazy because Belizeans are bike people. Motorcycles were everywhere. I suggested to Waldo we head to the end of town and ride back just to get a feel for the bikes. That little ride turned into a 2 hour rip…couldn’t help it. Once you \u00a0get going, it’s not easy to stop.<\/p>\n