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Snaps – February 2015
Our monthly collection of snaps from the digital cutting-room floor. Previous months can be found at this link. To our shame, we became a little blasé about Mexican churches after a while, but our...
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Saturday at Fred’s
We finished our food, dropped a $20 bill on the table, crossed the road and gingerly eased open the barroom door. It was 8.30, half an hour after the lounge had opened, and things were just beginning...
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Month 20
10 February – 9 March 2015 Countries Mexico & USA (total 17) Distance 1,775.23km (total 25,522.27km) Climb 7,640m (total 226,971m) Longest day 138.04km, Navasota to Shepherd in Texas, USA (longest...
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And finally…
Several places bill themselves as the cradle of country music, which has long been an interest of ours, but few have a better claim than the handsome old railroad town of Meridian in eastern...
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It’s too late to stop now – A week in New Orleans
Crossing the border from Mexico into the US six weeks ago felt like the end of… something. Leaving the Spanish-speaking Americas didn’t signal the climax of our trip; at the time, we still had more...
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Snaps – March 2015
More offcuts and scraps from our 7,000-and-counting archive of trip photos. For past editions, click here. Only one more month of this rubbish to go. Whatever they’re paying the marketing director...
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Month 21
10 March – 9 April 2015 Countries USA (total 17) Distance 2,265.20km (total 27,787.47km) Climb 13,186m (total 240,157m) Longest day 132.13km, Choctaw Lake, Tombigbee National Forest to Tupelo, MS, USA...
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Song of the South
To a European visitor, no part of the US feels more foreign than the South. This is not a matter of landscape or geography but of attitude. The South feels different because, for reasons both...
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Villa Laurinda, Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10am, 20 July 2013 640 days, 17 countries and 28,683km later… Battery Park, Manhattan, New York City, USA 2pm, 21 April 2015 Made it....
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When strangers expressed astonishment at the length of our journey, our standard response was to shrug it off. ‘It’s not that tough,’ we’d say, pointing out that it was essentially just a lot of short...
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