You won't expect it, because you prepared for the long haul,» she writes, «but then all of the sudden, midst the puffy clouds and blue skies, your little twin engine Entreprenairplane will sputter, the needle on the gas gauge unexpectedly plummeting to zero, and you will have only one choice... land your plane on the wild,
abandoned air strip called Bank Balance: Fourteen Dollars.»
Approximately 111acres of milpa cultivation, in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary
abandoned immediately before its declaration, and area's previously cleared for logging operations (including an
air strip) have left patches of regenerating secondary forest Some «elfin» forest grows above 655 yards on Victoria Peak itself (outside the reserve).