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    • Part I: Man of the World
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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
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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 63: A Taste of Belize

Day 63: A Taste of Belize

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:4 March 2009
  • Post category:Belize/Central & North America/Guatemala/The Odyssey Expedition
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The boat that Ishmael had got me on (it had been chartered by a German couple - I was cheekily tagging along for the ride) was doing a trip over…

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Read more about the article Day 62: Livingstone, I Presume?

Day 62: Livingstone, I Presume?

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:3 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/El Salvador/Guatemala/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

I got into Guatemala City about 10am (not much sleep on the bus then) and hopped straight onto a bus for Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean coast. This was the…

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Read more about the article Day 61: The Saviours of El Salvador

Day 61: The Saviours of El Salvador

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:2 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Costa Rica/El Salvador/Honduras/Nicaragua/The Odyssey Expedition
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Back on the groovy bus up through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. No cute girl for me to annoy this time, but I did meet a guy from…

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Read more about the article Day 60: The Tailor of Panama

Day 60: The Tailor of Panama

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:1 March 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Costa Rica/Panama/The Odyssey Expedition
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I arose before dawn for the last leg of the southern journey that had been necessitated by the fact that I didn't get to go to Costa Rica on the…

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Read more about the article Day 59: Nineteen Seventy-Nine

Day 59: Nineteen Seventy-Nine

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:28 February 2009
  • Post category:Central & North America/Costa Rica/El Salvador/Honduras/Nicaragua/The Odyssey Expedition
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I only slept for a few hours before we hit the El Salvador border and then it was off the bus, with queuing and formality. Having said that, the bus…

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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
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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
  • Epilogue

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