Busses and how we are lucky

Tulum, the Maya city on the beach. We got picked up at the hotel at 7 am and were at Tulum around 10:30 am after picking up people for an 1.5 hours in Cancun. Next tim, we rent a car. But this worked out for us because we needed to take more busses....
Tulum was honetsly not that great compared to Chichen Itza but a beutiful setting nonetheless. We took a cab with our luggage from there to Tulum City, about 4 km away $5 to catch a bus to Chetuma. We didn't know how long we'd have to wait, there are no phone numbers to call like Greyhound to find out schedules, no timetables like Europetrains. We got lucky, as a bus was leaving in 5 minues $15 each to Chetumal... 4 hrs. Very cold airconditioned hours . I sleptand Cathleen speed read through Harry Potter. Later, at Chetmual, we arrive and are told thet e counter there ar no more buses to Belize that nite, we knoew this could happen and we were planning on sleeping there but then out of the blue, I hearda voice, "you going to Belize?". It was a guy in a yellow/green soccer shirt and we exchanged words, yes, we are, do you have bus?? not sure to belive him or not! He took us to the bus and there were other tourists on it and we felt better and so we got on for $8 to Belize City. We had been told not to arrive a BC at nite, as it was dangerous but we really wanted to get out to the islands for snorkeling tomorrow, so we chanced it...
The road to Belize.
The border was no problem, we had to disembark with our luggage and walk through. The roads appeared to thave more infrastructure, like lights and dug ditches to hold water, than Mexico. The houses lit with low wattage incandenense and flouresent bulbs. Every 100 yds in towns, there was a church with a service going on.. on Wed nite. We arrived in BC and with hotle resrvation in hand, thanks to Cathleens cellphone working. We were greeted withteh many touts trying to get us on their cab / hotel. We took a taxi for $5 to our hotel...AC room, $45. Sleptweel. There was a cistern in the back to hold rain water... there are many more in Belize, as I have seen now in Caye Caulker as I write this. I am oddly interested in them, as if I am rainman of the cisterns. The hotel Mopan in BC was a comforable place to crash and we wake to the sounds of Creole language in the kitchen and amazing coffee, eggs, and frijacks (fried dough)... yum. And we put on our packs and head out at 10 am to the port to catch our boat to Caye Caulker... and more on this later...