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  • ep28

    Planet Kapow 28 : Copan Ruinas to La Ceiba

    BACK IN: San Salvador, we find an ancient station wagon posing as a taxi; our driver is short and rotund, bald but for a horrible slicked-down combover. He squints and has a gold tooth that he sucks on between sentences. Winking, he reaches in the...

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  • ep24

    Planet Kapow 24 : Caye Caulker to Tikal

    WE PASSED: a few lifeless days in Mexico in what we called “rest and reCubaration”, racing through the markets of Chetumal to stock up on all the bits and pieces lost or worn into the ground along the way. When we began to feel the...

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  • ep20

    Planet Kapow 20 : Palenque to Merida

      IT WAS: on the bus from San Cristobal de Las Casas to Palenque that I finally had my breakdown.   Almost everybody has a traveler tantrum, given enough time – alone among us, I have not seen one from Danielle, but I’m sure it’s...

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