Great Advice if you are planning on slow traveling, moving to, or volunteering in Central America.
This guest post is by  David Bloom.  Mr. Bloom is active on the Couch Surfing boards for Central America and I’ve been communicating with him over the past year. I thought this article would be great travel advice to our readers and with his permission, we are posting it for you. If you have any questions or wish to contact the author directly, please send him a note here.
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Das Boot
If you read German, we hope you will enjoy these entries from Paul’s Diary, written about his 1 1/2 month adventure building a boat to travel down the Usumacinta River in Mexico.
If you haven’t listened to Podcast #14-Swashbuckling Tales of Carnage, Adventure & Love!, where Lainie interviews Paul about his journey,  please [click here] to listen to the interview.
Ich war 28 Tage in Frontera Corozal, dem Dorf, in dem ich mein Boot gebaut hab. Am Anfang haett ich nicht dran geglaubt, aber ich hab es …

Kicking and screaming, dragging my heels, stomping my feet. “I don’t want to go back to LA, I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go…” 8:21 AM Aug 17th, 2009 via web

I don’t wanna go, I don’t wanna go back! I don’t wanna go, I don’t wanna go back! I don’t wanna go, I don’t wanna go back! I don’t wanna go, I don’t wanna go back!I don’t wanna go, I don’t wanna go back! I don’t wanna go, I don’t wanna go back!I don’t wanna go, …

Our last night
Back in Cancun, with the realization our mini-adventure, our “test-trip”, our jaunt around Mexico and Belize was about to end we were both a little sad it was coming to an end. Both Miro and I felt good about our travel, agreed we passed the test and have the ability to take on this lifestyle, and were truly excited about what’s ahead. However, today wasn’t a day for reflection, a time to look backwards. Today we had one job, pack up, enjoy our last night with our hosts, …

The island was used by the Mayan people as a sanctuary dedicated to Ixchel, the goddess of love and fertility. According to the legend, when the Spanish arrived they found a large number of women statues carved in stone in honor of the goddess, and it is from here that the island gets it’s name “Isla Mujeres” (The Island of Women).

Cobá Ruins & the Monkey Sanctuary Punta Laguna Reserve

Today Miro and I set out for a double-adventure-day. Our first stop was the Cobá Ruins which I was excited to see. We opted for this ruins, versus Chichen Itza which is much smaller and rumored to be less touristy. When we arrived, we hired a guide who made our tour that much more meaningful. He was of Mayan decent and told us that this is one of the most important Mayan sites in Mexico (and that Chichen Itza is not …