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Women’s Cooking Class (Translation: Wear your best clothes and bring your juiciest gossip)

The atmosphere on the minibus is tense. Quiet and unsmiling the guard slowly moves from person to person, scrutinising with unflinching eye each and every document, peering from passport to face to passport again.

The atmosphere on the minibus is tense. Quiet and unsmiling the guard slowly moves from person to person, scrutinising with unflinching eye each and every document, peering from passport to face to passport again.

In the middle of nowhere Mexico, my filling breaks. With no apparent cause, an upper back molar, which for many years has been an amalgamation of tooth, silver and white composite, cracks and crumbles.

I rise to the sounds of the street permeating through paper-thin walls. The mattress is thin in my $3-a-night room and the slumped ceiling is spotted with mould. My toilet is a mere hole in the floor where I squat...

I rise to the sounds of the street permeating through paper-thin walls. The mattress is thin in my $3-a-night room and the slumped ceiling is spotted with mould. My toilet is a mere hole in the floor where I squat...

Under a canoe in the middle of a lake. Fully clothed. That was where I didn’t want to be...

Everyone is familiar with the 1-2 person hiking tents. Yes you can squeeze two people into them and the comfort level is directly proportional to the size of those people – ie the smaller the people, the more comfortable.

Everyone is familiar with the 1-2 person hiking tents. Yes you can squeeze two people into them and the comfort level is directly proportional to the size of those people – ie the smaller the people, the more comfortable.

The cold, hard all-night unforgiving concrete of the North West Australian Main Roads Department depot floor, told him more about his real condition than any guide, best friend or philosopher ever would.