Visiting Belize by way of Marlboro at The Falcon

At 7:30 p.m. on August 6, we took flight. The Falcon was our vehicle. We would be arriving in Belize in no time.

The Falcon is a restaurant next to the Lattintown Creek in Marlboro. A large wooden structure, its inside resembles a refurbished honky-tonk joint turned artist’s delight, with portraits of famous musicians hanging around the bar. In the great hall, large beams support the peaked roof. For-sale paintings made by local artists adorn the side walls. Suspended from the center is a disco ball.

That was how I got to Belize. That place, The Falcon, was to become a teleportation device that one night. The rest of the audience and I left the Hudson Valley and landed in Belize.

The lights dimmed, and the host introduced the Garifuna Collective, a band that has been touring for some 20