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Day 883: A Breath of Fresh Air

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:2 June 2011
  • Post category:Colombia/England/Intermission/Mexico/Rants/The Odyssey Expedition/USA
  • Post comments:4 Comments

02.06.11: For somebody with my fun-seeking personality traits it may come as a shock to some of you that I’ve never knowingly taken an illegal drug. The closest I’ve got…

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Day 84: Chilli Con Carnage

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:25 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition/USA
  • Post comments:1 Comment

So the day was spent entirely at the mercy of the rather wonderful Mexican bus service. Leigh got off the bus somewhere in the middle of nowhere to climb a…

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Read more about the article Day 83: Mexico, third time lucky…

Day 83: Mexico, third time lucky…

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:24 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

In the morning, I made a huge arse of myself trying to pull up the anchor (all those years of never going to the gym finally paid off BIGTIME) and…

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Read more about the article Day 82: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Day 82: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:23 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Cuba/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

The madness of leaving at night, drunk and without a weather window slowly dawned on us - looking to port and looking to starboard, electrical storms cackled like mischievous witches…

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Read more about the article Day 65: Entering America

Day 65: Entering America

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:6 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition/USA
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All I got to see of Mexico City was the outskirts and the bus station, but I hear it's not much too look at anyway. Driving reasonably close to Tikal…

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Read more about the article Day 64: Once Upon A Time In Mexico

Day 64: Once Upon A Time In Mexico

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:5 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Guatemala/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

By this stage of my Herculean bus ride, it had been a week since I'd had a hot shower. To say I was beginning to smell a little ripe, would…

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Read more about the article Day 58: Go Yell It To The Ocean

Day 58: Go Yell It To The Ocean

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:27 February 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/El Salvador/Guatemala/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

The bus arrived at Tapachula near the Guatemalan border early in the morning to find another bus to Guatemala City waiting to take me away, ha ha. So goodbye Mexico,…

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Read more about the article Day 57: Land Ahoy!

Day 57: Land Ahoy!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:26 February 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Mexico/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:6 Comments

We arrived in Veracruz, Mexico at around 1pm local time. Yippee! Unfortunately for my itchy, goddamn-month-behind-schedule feet, the shipping agent says I've got to wait on board until 4pm before…

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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
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