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  • ep11

    Planet Kapow 11 : Zacatecas

    OH, ZACATECAS! Where it finally all came together, where Mexico finally showed us her true glorious self, where the good vibes that had been slowly swelling since Tepic at long last came crashing down on us in a great wave. Finding ourselves in one of...

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    Photo: Plaza del Carmen, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

    Beautiful afternoon!

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  • ep6

    Planet Kapow 06 : Puerto Vallarta to San Blas

    AND SO: Independence Day came upon us. Mexico’s Independence Day is usually a pretty big occasion but this year was special – it marked two hundred years since Father Miguel Hidalgo made his famous speech of defiance against the Spanish overlords who had ruled Mexico...

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    Planet Kapow 05 : Mazatlan to Puerto Vallarta

    OUR FERRY: from La Paz to Mazatlan turned out to be a decommissioned cruise ship, complete with disco, swimming pool, observation deck, bar and games room. Not a bad way to spend a night, even if we didn’t get a bed and were forced to...

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  • ep4

    Planet Kapow 04 : La Paz to Mazatlan

    The desert heat had sent us a little crazy, and we’d built La Paz into a mythical dreamland in our heads, a place where the bars heaved with the force of hundreds of drunken partygoers, where our toes would sink into the endless white sand,...

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  • ep3

    Planet Kapow 03 : Guerrero Negro to La Paz

    OUT INTO: the desert, and though we’d spent a Sydney winter dreaming of the heat, we hadn’t really prepared ourselves for it. We cut fairly pathetic figures as we stumbled into San Ignacio as the sun beat mercilessly down – dripping with sweat, haggard and...

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    Planet Kapow 02 : Tijuana to Colonet

    THE TUNNEL: that leads to the bridge that leads to Mexico is so low-key and inconspicuous that for a while we couldn’t even find it – we had to approach a cop to point it out to us. And across we went, no customs, no...

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    Planet Kapow 01 : Sydney to San Ysidro

    AND HERE: we are. Welcome to the very first episode of Planet Kapow, as Adam and I fly out of Sydney for the glorious excess of the United States. Erin and Danielle will follow us over in mid-November; for now we have a couple of...

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