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Day 1,426: Day of Days

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/South Sudan/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:15 Comments

Mon 26.11.12: Well then. I made it. It would not be unfair to say that my entire life has been leading up to this point. This day. This moment. This…

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Day 1,425: The Impossible Dream

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/South Sudan/The Odyssey Expedition/Uganda
  • Post comments:14 Comments

Sun 25.11.12: The coach arrived at 9am in an strangely subdued Kampala. Where the hell was everyone? Then I realised it was Sunday and it all kinda made sense –…

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Day 1,424: Back Where It All Began

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Kenya/Tanzania/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Sat 24 Nov 12: Today I headed north from Dar es Salaam to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, across the plains of the Serengeti, and yes Mount Kilimanjaro did rise…

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Days 1,422-1,423: This Is Africa

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Tanzania/The Odyssey Expedition/Zambia
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Thu 22 - Fri 23 Nov 12: I didn’t want to use this as a title, said while pointing to at the red earth, imitating Leonardo DiCaprio ’s Rhodesian mercenary…

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Day 1,421: Wham Bam Thank You Zam

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Tanzania/The Odyssey Expedition/Zambia
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Wed 21.11.12: So then, Zambia, my third country in three days. Zambia has always been Zimbabwe’s poorer neighbour, even back in the day when it was Northern Rhodesia, it was…

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Day 1,420: Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/South Africa/The Odyssey Expedition/Zimbabwe
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Tue 20.11.12: After grabbing a whole three hours of sleep, it was time to SLAM DUNK DA FUNK and hit the road once more. NORTH MISS TESCHMACHER!! Janine, being the…

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Day 1,419: We Advance At Dawn

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/South Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Mon 19.11.12: It was 0600 when my wake-up call came through from the third officer, but he need not have bothered: I was already wide awake. Giddy with that I-can-believe-this-is-actually-happening…

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Days 1,411-8: The Maersk Sebarok

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Indian Ocean/Mauritius/South Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
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Sun 11.11.12 - Sun 18.11.12 I was up an’ at ’em! by 8am, and by 8.30am I was on the bus back to Port Louis. I didn’t get to say…

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Days 1,408-1,410: Made It Ma, Top of the World!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:20 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Mauritius/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:3 Comments

Fri 09.11.12 - Sun 11.11.12: After an hour’s sleep, I was back up an’ at ‘em, ready to take on my final day in Réunion. Geraldine left for a work…

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Day 1,406: The Lava Meets The Sea

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:11 November 2012
  • Post category:Final Frontiers/Reunion/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Thu 08.11.12: In many ways, Thursday was (yet another) D-Day for this phase of The Odyssey Expedition. I had a choice to make: I could stick here on Réunion and…

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  • Part I: Man of the World
    • 1. South America
    • 2. The Caribbean
    • 3. Central & North America
    • 4. Europe
    • 5. West Africa
    • 6. Central Africa
    • 7. Southern Africa
    • 8. East Africa
  • Part II: Top of the World
    • 1. The Middle East
    • 2. North Africa
    • 3. Central Asia
    • 4. Arabia
    • 5. South Asia
    • 6. East Asia
    • 7. Southeast Asia
    • 8. Australasia
  • Part III: End of the World
    • 1. Intermission
    • 2. Melanesia
    • 3. Polynesia
    • 4. Micronesia
    • 5. Return to SE Asia
    • 6. Marooned!
    • 7. The Final Frontiers
    • 8. The Journey Home
  • Epilogue

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