What have you found in your shoe

[ransco33]

Brown Recluse in my waders during an early season teal hunt. Didn't even know it until my ankle swole up and turned dang near black and I could barely walk. A shot and some antibiotics finally took the infection and pain away.

[farmerc83]

Black widow

If I remember correctly you have also found either urine or vomit in your boot during a certain trip to St. Louis. You weren't laughing all that hard cause it was your boot and you weren't the culprit, but I laughed my butt off.

[mfalkner]

Brake Man,

I was gonna mention that one trip to Belize or Honduras and you'll learn to shake out your shoes. I freakin hate tarantulas.

[brake man]

Brake Man,

I was gonna mention that one trip to Belize or Honduras and you'll learn to shake out your shoes. I freakin hate tarantulas.

That was one dead scorpion after I got through with him. Not sure which one freaked me out the most of the two, but it was probably the tarantula. On the same trip I almost ended up going leopard hunting the last night we were there since one of the pastors visiting the camp had one stalking his hut before he came to our camp a few days earlier. I was young and single so I thought "what the heck!" even though he had the only gun and only three shotgun shells and was going to give me a machete "it case it gets past me." Finding out about the bushmaster was what finally changed my mind. (Google the bushmaster, and you'll see what I mean.)

[mfalkner]

OH I know about the bushmaster.... nuff said.

Got woke up one night by howler monkeys cutting up/fighting in the trees; I thought the lions was gonna eat me that night.

What part of the country were you in? I've been around Belmopan/Roaring Creek area a bunch, and also down south around Stann Creek/Dangriga. Got some other missionary friends way down south near Punta Gorda, too.

[brake man]

We were down south and flew into the "thriving metropolis" of Punta Gorda at dusk. The camp was Muchaka (sp?) Outreach Center and was a pretty good drive back to the middle of nowhere from the airport. This trip was back in the fall of 1997. I would like to go back one day and take my family to also work in the camp. Sure was interesting drinking water that was collected from rainwater run-off--had a very "earthy" taste, for sure. Those dang flies that liked to take a bite at your joints drove me crazy since my hands, knees, etc. were swollen for a few days.

Funny story was about when we flew into Belize City after our flight was delayed about 4-5 hours from New Orleans. We were on the same flight to Belize City with a bunch of Army Rangers going down to do their jungle training. We were all standing in line at the customs desk in a pretty long line when, all of a sudden, this little small dude is all hot and bothered and starts to call quickly out my name in a very thick accent. Someone in our group understood what he was saying and got my attention so I went up to the front of the line with him. He apparently worked for TACA Airlines (who we flew in on--also known as Take A Chance Airlines) and did not want to have to pay to put us up for the night since their flight was so late so he literally starts pushing our entire group of 12 through customs. He is standing on the other side of customs and starts calling for us to "hurry, hurry, hurry...only 13 more minutes before the plane leaves" so our group is just about thrown onto this old twin-engine plane with only one pilot. They close the door to the plane, the pilot starts the plane, does no pre-flight anything, and takes off like a bat out of Hades for the runway. I kid you not that the pilot barely slowed down when turned sideways on the runway and was on two wheels in the turn. He took off on just half the runway, and barely cleared the edge. The next 45 minutes we flew over some really awesome jungle until we approached where we were to land. It was dusk and visibility was getting very low when we approached the "airport" which was a building that probably only about 20'x20' and a runway that was no more than compacted dirt in the middle of some huts. Kids and livestock had to be shooed away for us to land. What was really unnerving was that the airport/runway lighting consisted of nothing more than someone repeatedly turning the lights on and off inside the building.

Waking up to toucans and parrots flying around and carrying on in the trees all over the camp was quite a wake-up call.

[mfalkner]

Sounds like a typical Belize story, although I have to say it's much more modernized now. Not sure that's a good thing for them but it is for travelers! Belize International Airport (!) is even air conditioned now - on the departure side only. Don't have to fly TACA to get there, United and Delta go daily. Lots of scuba divers and eco-tourists now.

BUT, that jungle and the mountains are some of the most beautiful country on the planet.

[cturn]

One of my dogs hides bones from the other dogs in my shoes.

[richard b evers]

every time my wife gets mad at me and raises her voice at me, my blue heeler leaves her a surprise in one of her shoe I love that dog

[donia]

every time my wife gets mad at me and raises her voice at me, my blue heeler leaves her a surprise in one of her shoe I love that dog

you could make a mint breeding that good dog!!!