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Clean Shaven into Ecuador

My wake-up call was a gun muzzle to the neck. Drawing up at the Ecuadorian immigration post, several kilometers on from the Peruvian exit over parched wasteland, we cut an unruly unwashed rabble of Englishmen and a couple of Irish … Continue reading

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Another Close Call: Crossing into Panama

Lined up against the wall in the bleak and stiflingly hot warehouse, I was little concerned, after all I had nothing to hide. My fingers pressed clammily onto the faded and peeling yellow paint which, rather than crumbling at the … Continue reading

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