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    Kapow Update: 10/8/10

    16 DAYS TO GO       SUN, SUN: sun, sun, sun, sun, sun. I had this thought in my head that perhaps getting four days up in beautiful, UV-soaked northern Queensland might give me my sunshine fix and leave me relaxed for my last...

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    3 + 1: Erin

    In the 3 + 1 section we’ll be asking all sorts of people to delve deep into their memory banks – and memory cards – to answer two questions – what have been the three greatest travel experiences of your life? And where in the world have...

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    3 + 1: Lachlan

    In the 3 + 1 section we’ll be asking all sorts of people to delve deep into their memory banks – and memory cards – to answer two questions – what have been the three greatest travel experiences of your life? And where in the...

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    3 + 1: Danielle

    In the 3 + 1 section we’ll be asking all sorts of people from all walks of life to delve deep into their memory banks – and memory cards – to answer two questions: what have been the three greatest travel experiences of your life?...

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    3 + 1: Adam

    In the 3 + 1 section we’ll be asking all sorts of people from all walks of life to delve deep into their memory banks – and memory cards – to answer two questions: what have been the three greatest travel experiences of your life?...

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    Kapow Update: 3/8/10

    23 DAYS TO GO   I’VE STARTED: catching myself mumbling and chanting under my breath, when I’m not thinking about it, driving or walking down the street: “Not long, not long, not long, twenty, twenty-three, twenty, then nineteen eighteenseventeensixteen, three four five, not long notlong…”,...

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    WWOOF

    ¡Hola Amigos! Wow, less than 4 weeks to go until half the Planet Kapow team are on the road traveling from town to town in search of the perfect farm. I’ve finally signed up to WWOOF Mexico, paid the $30, and now just waiting to...

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    Kapow Update: 26/7/10

    31 DAYS TO GO   ONE MONTH on the clock now. Thirty-one cold winter days to tie up all the loose ends, to say our goodbyes and to attempt some sort of preparation that may prevent us becoming bloated malaria-riddled corpses somewhere in the jungles of...

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    Kapow Update: 19/7/10

    38 DAYS TO GO   IT WAS: a blazenhot sunny day, sometime last September, and we were all down at Maroubra Beach. We’d all been out together that day, I’ve forgotten where, Hugh, Adam, Dan, Phil, the two Erins and I, probably at lawn bowls because that’s invariably...

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    Kapow Update: 12/7/10

    45 DAYS TO GO   ARRIBA, ARRIBA: Adam and I are now officially authorized to enter the United States of America. We’ve purchased ludicrously cheap tickets from Miami to Colombia and filled out our ESTA forms, and now we’re in like Flynn, on our way,...

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