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    Things We Found Along the Way: 2666

    “Sometimes he thought it was precisely because he was an atheist that he didn’t read anymore. Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don’t believe in God, how...

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    Things We Found Along The Way: Horchata

      IN THIS: section, we’ll be bringing you music, films, recipes, games and other bits and pieces we find during our travels. Queuing up is a horrible reality of life. Queuing for the bank, queuing at the supermarket, queuing for the bathroom – or queuing...

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    Guatemala: hike around Nebaj (Cuchumatan Mountains)

    Ok, I’m jumping the gun a bit with my backlog of posts I should be getting on top of, but here is an update that I really wanted to get up. A few days ago we got back from a brilliant 3 days up in...

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    Mexico, I love you.

    I love Mexico. Upon arriving in Mexico some 4 months ago I really had no idea what we would be about to experience. The only references I had were from movies like Desperado & Nacho Libre, and I think I had seen The Mexican. The...

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    Things We Found Along the Way: Gaspacho

    A STRANGE: fruity-spicy-soupy concoction that in no way resembles the Spanish soup of the same name (the Mexican version can be spelt with either a ‘z’ or an ‘s’), gaspacho is a specialty of the lovely city of Morelia, in Michoacan state. The best summer...

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    Things We Found Along the Way: Micheladas

    IN THIS: section, we’ll be bringing you music, films, recipes, games and other bits and pieces we find during our travels. A beer Bloody Mary. What an idea, and a fantastic way to finish, or start, or spend a lazy summer’s day. We came across...

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    Photo: Plaza del Carmen, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

    Beautiful afternoon!

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    The journey has begun

    We are off. Lachlan & I are in Ensenada, Mexico. On the 26th of August we made some very sorry adios’s to our buenos amigos and spent 13 hours in the air to LAX. The flight was quite ok. The entertainment system was good and...

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    Kapow Update: 25/8/10

    1 DAY TO GO Well, here we are. No more guesswork, no more counting. Tomorrow we will be on a plane bound for America. Fourteen hours of cramped seats and pushing past cranky tired people to get to the damned bathroom and endlessly looking out...

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    Kapow Update: 16/8/10

    10 DAYS TO GO     visit grandmother. check. wander for three hours through Ray’s Outdoors, only to end up buying nothing. check. waste hours looking for a way to get money out overseas without costing myself, like, eleven dollars each time, only to give...

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