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Mexico Archive

  • 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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    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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  • ep21

    Planet Kapow 21 : Tulum to Cancun

        IT WAS: late when we reached Tulum after a long day of buses, and after tossing our belongings into our tiny bungalow, we sat down at the bar, curled our toes in the sand, and ordered a shot of mezcal. It was two...

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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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  • 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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  • ep19

    Planet Kapow 19 : Taxco to San Cristobal de las Casas

    HUNGOVER AND: irritated, I sat with the others waiting endlessly for a bus that apparently had no intention of coming. It was a hot day in a dusty little shithole junction town with tuk-tuks screaming past, aggravating my headache and my sullen whining. We were...

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  • ep18

    Planet Kapow 18 : Mexico City to Taxco

    THE TEAM’S: all here, finally thrown together in the fiery bubbling cauldron of Mexico City. Planet Kapow is ready to properly begin, and Mexico’s laying out a welcome mat of fun times and dancing skeletons. 2010 marked one hundred years since Zapata, Villa, Carranza and...

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    Planet Kapow 17: Everywhere to Mexico City

    ADAM’S GONE. Up through Guadalajara, shooting back to Mexico City, rounding Los Angeles, across the Pacific to Hong Kong for two weeks while his father gets married and he meanwhile tries desperately to overcome jetlag in time to celebrate and then fly back to Mexico....

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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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  • ep16

    Planet Kapow 16 : Guadalajara to Cuyutlan

    WE HAD: been hyping Guadalajara between ourselves for quite a while. I don’t know how it started, because I don’t remember having a conversation with anyone who raved about it, though a lot of people seemed to be heading there. But we had definitely built...

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