WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU RETIRE IN WESTERN BELIZE?

Old fashioned Mennonites in the market selling produce in our twin towns. They leave home in the pocket valleys of Barton Creek area about 4 a.m. and arrive here four hours later to sell. They don't believe in television, radio, automobiles and even have some gringo neighbors from different countries that are also survivalist types living back there in our version of Appalachia.
The finished product. A bronco tossing his cowboy at the Belmopan Rodeo last year in Belize.
Second attempt at painting a watercolor piece of art.
Ray Auxillou painting in his underwear shorts in tropical Western Belize

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU RETIRE IN WESTERN BELIZE?

In my case for the past three years, we have been building a HOSTEL, called Falconview Backpackers Adventure Hostel as a security blanket and doing vegetable experiments to initiate change in Agriculture in Belize. Both are finished now and so this year I took up pencil sketching, learning using a book from the USA on how to draw. Now I've moved into water colors. Still learning that. After that, will try acrylics. Only spend 2 hours in the morning dabbling. The goal is to build enough historical paintings, to make a good collection, that will be famous and EXPENSIVE after I'm long dead. ( grin! ) I mean, think about it for a bit. What do you do if you have been an outdoorsman all your life, with adventures galore, a life of excitement and exploration and daring do, then find yourself 72 years old and can't do all those physical things you want to, anymore? You have to have challenges to keep the juices flowing. Right?