Mud, Sweat, and Gears

Camp 5 Road, Cayo Province, Belize — Whoever decided to call this overgrown track through the jungle a road must have one twisted sense of humor. In the past eight hours we’ve come just over nine miles through hood-high vegetation and axle-deep mud; our forward progress has often been measured in feet. And we are—quite literally—not out of the woods yet. What little daylight is left on this deeply overcast day is fading fast, and we still have many miles to go before we reach pavement – let alone civilization.