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  • ep38

    Planet Kapow 38 : Salento to San Agustin

    Posted on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
    MY EARS: pop furiously all night, the right ear sounding like a thousand champagne bottles corked in quick succession, as the bus ducks and weaves dangerously along the narrow mountain passes on its way south from Bogota. In the dawn light we pass muddy rivers,...

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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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  • ep22

    Planet Kapow 22 : Havana to Trinidad

    Posted on March 20, 2011 | 8 Comments
      CUBA IS: different. Different, I think, from most any country in the world. Certainly different from anywhere I’ve ever been. And with more than two months of distance from the country, that’s still all I can say about it. Not good, not bad, not...

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  • ep20

    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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  • ep13

    Planet Kapow 13 : Guanajuato to Bernal

    Posted on December 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
    AND NOW: our long and winding journey brings us to what quickly became our favourite Mexican city, Guanajuato, where the streets fluttered with coloured flags and music, where the buildings burst with colour and life, where everything great about Mexico came together in one neatly...

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