I'm reading these posts and wondering how the PC experience is different 20 years later. I was a volunteer in Honduras from1982 to 1984. I worked in public health (water sanitation and healh ed) in a rural community. I had to travel 5 hours to make an international call home. There were no fast food places then in the capital, Tegucigalpa, and this was 10 years before internet. It was a glorious experience for me but certainly isolating at times.

Fast forward to today. The whole world has internet. I'm told that even the smaller communities in Honduras have fast food places. With internet telephone, it's possible to make phone calls for less than $1 for 5 minutes as opposed to the $20 I would have paid for the same phone call 20 years ago. Plus it seems that hundreds of thousands of Central Americans now have family members living in the US.

So my question to you all is whether it's still possible to feel as isolated today as a PCV as it was in generations past.