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May 2025 update: This guide to the Maya Train originally went up in June of 2024. Since then, Mexico elected a new president, but from the same party, so work continues and now the whole system is finished and open. You can now ride from Cancun down to Tulum and Bacalar and go from…
A lot of experienced travelers don’t know much about Bulgaria, even though it’s one of the best—if not the best—values in Europe. Besides that, why visit Bulgaria? Well it also has far more green space than most of the other more crowded and populated EU countries and you won’t be bumping into thousands of…
Moving to a new country is an adventure that often comes with its own set of challenges, chief among them being culture shock. This phenomenon encompasses the range of emotional and psychological reactions people experience when immersed in a foreign culture. It typically starts with an initial honeymoon phase, during which everything about the…
Do you need to rent a mailbox because you no longer have a physical home in your country of birth? Do you need to maintain residency for banking and a driver’s license but you’re nomadic or are based in another country? After you’ve found a cheap place to live in another country, it can…
I started traveling a lot in Latin America after I had a child and needed to hit the ground running when returning from a trip. With two continents only varying by a few hours for time zones, staying in this hemisphere has obvious advantages if you’re American or Canadian. You also only have to…
Do you want to travel from the Mexico mainland to the Baja Peninsula? The two largest cities that are connected by transportation are Mazatlan on the mainland and La Paz on the peninsula. If you are traveling in Mexico by foot, motorcycle, car, or RV, you can do what I did and and take…
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