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Planet Kapow 30 : Leon to Granada

Posted on June 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
“PASSPORTS, PLEASE,”: says the Honduran official brusquely. We’re sitting on the Nicaraguan border at six in the morning, after an epic bus journey across Honduras, from the thick jungle of the north through the lakes and plains of the centre to the dust and traffic...
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Planet Kapow 23 : Santiago de Cuba to Baracoa

Posted on April 14, 2011 | 6 Comments
BUT BACK: to the story. Back to the beginning. Havana is a beautiful city to walk around. Crumbling buildings pour into narrow streets full of 1950′s convertibles, old couples in home-made horsecarts, teenagers playing wallball. Old ladies drop baskets attached by ropes over their balcony,...
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Planet Kapow 20 : Palenque to Merida

Posted on March 1, 2011 | 3 Comments
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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Planet Kapow 18 : Mexico City to Taxco

Posted on January 27, 2011 | 8 Comments
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

Posted on January 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
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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Planet Kapow 16 : Guadalajara to Cuyutlan

Posted on January 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
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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Planet Kapow 08 : Huajumar to Yepachi

Posted on October 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
WE LEFT: Huajumar in the morning under light cloud, still excited about going to work on the farm despite the repeated delays. We knew extremely little about it – what work we’d be doing, how remote it was, how many people would be there –...
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Planet Kapow 03 : Guerrero Negro to La Paz

Posted on September 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
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 01 : Sydney to San Ysidro

Posted on September 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
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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Kapow Update: 16/8/10

Posted on August 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
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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