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    Kapow Update: 25/8/10

    1 DAY TO GO Well, here we are. No more guesswork, no more counting. Tomorrow we will be on a plane bound for America. Fourteen hours of cramped seats and pushing past cranky tired people to get to the damned bathroom and endlessly looking out...

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    Kapow Update: 16/8/10

    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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    Kapow Update: 3/8/10

    23 DAYS TO GO   I’VE STARTED: catching myself mumbling and chanting under my breath, when I’m not thinking about it, driving or walking down the street: “Not long, not long, not long, twenty, twenty-three, twenty, then nineteen eighteenseventeensixteen, three four five, not long notlong…”,...

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    Kapow Update: 26/7/10

    31 DAYS TO GO   ONE MONTH on the clock now. Thirty-one cold winter days to tie up all the loose ends, to say our goodbyes and to attempt some sort of preparation that may prevent us becoming bloated malaria-riddled corpses somewhere in the jungles of...

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    Kapow Update: 19/7/10

    38 DAYS TO GO   IT WAS: a blazenhot sunny day, sometime last September, and we were all down at Maroubra Beach. We’d all been out together that day, I’ve forgotten where, Hugh, Adam, Dan, Phil, the two Erins and I, probably at lawn bowls because that’s invariably...

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    Kapow Update: 12/7/10

    45 DAYS TO GO   ARRIBA, ARRIBA: Adam and I are now officially authorized to enter the United States of America. We’ve purchased ludicrously cheap tickets from Miami to Colombia and filled out our ESTA forms, and now we’re in like Flynn, on our way,...

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    Kapow Update: 5/7/10

    52 DAYS TO GO   I’M SICK: of waiting, of counting down the hours, the days, of travelling in this endless holding pattern. It needs to happen, and it needs to happen soon. It’s only because it’s winter, of course. Summer in Sydney: a neverending orgy...

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    Kapow Update: 28/6/10

    59 DAYS TO GO   WELL, OKAY: With a little under two months to go, now, until Adam and I board that first flight across the Pacific to an almost certain death-by-shotgun, we’ve decided it’s time to start regular updates on what stage we’ve reached...

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