Always I wanted to travel, but…I finished college, I got a well-paid job (but I didn’t like it), I got married. I started to realize a stereotype of being good wife and employee. And I was thinking that will be always like that untill retirement. But one day I decided that I didn’t want to live like that. Life is to short. It’s quite common story. I quit my job, left my husband at home and went on a journey of dreams. It was first time when I was travel alone without my husband, so far and so long time without knowing the language. I chose probably one of the most dangerous countries: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico.

I spent five months in Central America. I was afraid, because I didn’t know what will happen with me in the future. I didn’t want to back to full-time job. I wanted to travel and earn money from traveling. But I didn’t know how to do this.

This journey was a real school of life.

Here’s a short story, in pictures.

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I started to study Spanish in school, in beautiful Antigua Guatemala but also I learned Spanish in every possible places: in cafes, on the street, at the market.

I climbed the volcanoes in Guatemala.

But also in Salvador (it’s amazing volcanoe Santa Ana)

I watched the eruption of the volcano Santiaguito in Guatemala.

I admired the sunsets over one of the most beautiful lake in the world – Lago Atitlan.

I spent some nights in the jungle and looking for signs of pumas.

I rest on the Pacific coast of El Salvador.

I spent so-called “end of the world”, announced by the Maya in the former capital of the Maya – Tikal in Guatemala.

I gave in a purification ceremony.

I participated in the most amazing Easter holidays in Quetzaltenango in Guatemala.

I am arranging flower carpets.

I met the inhabitants of the coast of the Caribbean Sea – Garifuna peoples in Honduras.

I was swimming in the warm Caribbean Sea.

I talked only with people who spoke Spanish (thats why I learn language so quickly).

I took hundreds of portraits.

Visited a school in Honduras and checked how education in this country is.

Photographed animals in Salvador.

My favourite made of transport was chicken bus.

I saw this colorful cemetery in Chichicastenango.

Sometimes I felt unsafe, but the police always helped me. Few times I hitchhiked with them.

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Before my travel I started to write blog. My blog received a special honor in the prestigious competition for the best blog of the year

When I returned to Poland I organized a big travel festival for women only. I started to write for travel magazines in Poland, be a tour guide too.

Finally I wrote a book about my journey and I’m still on the road. Now I do what I love. Sometimes it is good to take a chance and change your life.

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