The Surfing Hippos - going south to explore. Adventures from Central America to South America and beyond.
About this blog
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain -
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The big unstructured plan. -
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Some things to sort out before you go. -
3
Getting closer to departure. -
4
Almost there, yeah!!! -
5
I'm outta here!!! -
6
Antigua, muy tranquilo. -
7
Happy 35th amigo!!! -
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A bloody hard hike and other stories. -
9
The art of being stupid (Vol. 1). -
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Back to school. -
11
A typical day at the dinner table. -
12
Today's question. -
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Will I see the Rhincodon typus? -
14
Choppy water and pissing rain. -
15
Eighteen Rabbit. -
16
Spot the Gringo. -
17
Buccaneers and drug runners. -
18
Back on the tourist trail. -
19
Missing tourists. -
20
Hang loose in surfers town. -
21
Day 56. -
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The rumbling volcano. -
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Karaoke at the Hotel Kalifornia Lounge. -
24
I alone. -
25
Pura Vida. -
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Hey guys, this is your lucky day!!! -
27
No paradise found. -
28
Welcome to the jungle. It's this way! No that way! -
29
Christmas Panamanian style. -
30
Things I don't like on this trip, or even hate. -
31
Wow, that's a big drainage. -
32
Lady Kiss. -
33
The Bay of Shame. -
34
Hey Locombia, where's all the Gringos? -
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The Lost City or not? -
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The toothless pipe smoking Colombian lunatic. -
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Random Colombian observations. -
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The Motorcycle Diaries. -
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The great Chicken Vindaloo race. -
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Oh mighty river (oh bloody mosquitoes). -
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The booze cruise. -
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You're running out of money sonny. -
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Devil's Canyon thin ribbon. -
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Terribly lost in the Lost World. -
45
Bird shit on two shoes. -
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Capybara stampede my arse. -
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Join us here in Clearwater. -
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This is pretty nice. -
49
I screwed Gangsterville. -
50
About a girl, the most gorgeous girl. -
51
Six months on the road. -
52
The Land of Fire. -
53
...blue skies from pain... -
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On the rocks, with ice. -
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Funny looking hill. -
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My katzenjammer with the Million Dollar Baby. -
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Schleswig Holstein Helga gone missing. -
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Showdown at the OK Corral. -
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Un burrito con salsa de fish pudding por favor. -
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The puffing volcano, my ice axe and me. -
61
Wasn't that a Starbucks? -
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¿Cómo se dice...? -
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A holiday within a holiday. -
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The boys are back in town... -
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A not so typical Monday. -
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Big city nights. -
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Seasonal siesta. -
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UMPA -
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What would you do next...? -
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Going around in circles and a 4000km detour. -
71
Hanga Roa versus...? -
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Let there be rock. -
73
The business class backpacker. -
74
Stopping by Wet Beaver Creek on my way to Hell. -
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Stuck in Salta doing some caramel pulling. -
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I was TOLD never... -
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The Gringo trail. -
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Can you pass the salt please? -
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It's day 300 and I am back on the chicken bus. -
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Sucre er helt konge! -
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A bit down on my way up... -
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Mustard tricks in the cool bowl. -
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With Downhill Madness down The Death Road. -
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Copacabana all inclusive style. -
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Hace frio!!! -
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Inca Kola and the quick buck in tourist central. -
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Jinxed by a floating tortoise. -
88
A magical place. -
89
My days and nights in the City of Kings. -
90
Travel plans made, kind of... -
91
Close to Touching the Void country. -
92
Hurts So Good... -
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A big jump makes full circle. -
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Mi hermano más joven. -
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This is my Latin America (aka a year on the road). -
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Meet Lard-Ass and happy 36th aboard Amigo!!! -
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All the time in the world,...not. -
98
Chicken buses and herbal hippies. -
99
I have been robbed... -
100
Church hopping. -
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Ok, now it's full circle. -
102
Hey girl, where's your beer goggles??? -
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You pick up the soap honey!!! -
104
How to blow your travel budget. -
105
Dull town blues. -
106
The international bastard syndrome. -
107
Is that you Gisele? -
108
The sweet rodizio. -
109
The never ending stadium hunt. -
110
He was high as a kite and had evil eyes. -
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The hidden places. -
112
Wayne's World all over again. -
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Guaraná Heaven. -
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Devil's Throat walkway. -
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Yo soy de Boca señor... -
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Fake ones will be sniggered at. -
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La Bombonera. -
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Fame at last, don't know about shoestring though. -
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No Norwegian julegran as far as the eye can see. -
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King for a day, ...or for a week actually. -
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Pocket change, big spends and backpack ingredients -
122
The traveling Oscars. -
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467 days on the run. -
124
Round The World trip my arse... -
125
The unfamiliar sound of an alarm clock. -
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My Bullshit Bingo thoughts in the Spanish capital. -
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A wimp in the city that never sleeps. -
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My first visitors and how about a taxi right now! -
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Photos from a stamp collector (Part 1). -
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Photos from a stamp collector (Part 2). -
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Photos from a stamp collector (Part 3). -
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Photos from a stamp collector (Part 4). -
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A friendly Brazilian saves the weekend. -
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A collection of untold stories from the road. -
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I can see the headlines. Furious Dane goes... -
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The Eternal City. -
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A whole lotta donkey talk. -
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Being a tourist in your own city (the heat is on). -
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It was about time... -
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Welcome to Syden!!! -
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Despedida de soltero. -
142
You know you are back in England when... -
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Oli-Ba-Ba in Oliva. -
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Been there, hardly done that! -
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It's been a sizzling fortnight for a proud uncle. -
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Pole dancing in wild boar country. -
147
Gone hiking and getting lost. -
148
Birthday party... -
149
The Japanese wildebeest stampede. -
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And then he was 37... -
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Indian summer playing havoc with ugly stepchild. -
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Circus Circus. -
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Segway fame and 100.000 blog visitors. -
154
Childhood latitudes. -
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Welcome to the Boomtown. -
156
I dreamt of tractors and donkey carts... -
157
Our jaunt around the Baltic States. -
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Madrid. -
159
Give me back my fluffy chest-deep snow!!! -
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Madrid. -
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New Year in Alcossebre. -
162
One year in the Spanish capital. -
163
El Rastro, El Retiro and the Zoo. -
164
About time to visit Toledo. -
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Easter in Porto. -
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A day trip to Segovia. -
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Visitors from over there. -
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There's even a Sainsbury. -
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Finally a bit of chaos again... -
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Play it again Sam. -
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With one foot in Europe and the other in... -
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I knew it. I couldn't stay away! -
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Let the adventure begin... -
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No time for Mango's. -
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In the coffee zone. -
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Bananas at La Manga. -
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...the most exotic thing out there. -
178
Booze alert. -
179
Free rounds at the Arco Iris. -
180
Some September days in Elverum. -
181
The Gibraltar of Valencia. -
182
Valley of the Fallen. -
183
Here we are again. -
184
München mag Dich. -
185
Nothing Else Matters. -
186
North African road trip. -
187
My brother visiting. -
188
Elverum for Christmas. -
189
Madrid. -
190
Belgium -
191
Alcossebre. -
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Alcossebre and Peñíscola. -
193
Cuenca. -
194
Madrid celebrations. -
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Navarredonda de Gredos. -
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Madrid. -
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Salamanca. -
198
Elverum. -
199
Paris. -
200
Cartagena. -
201
Isla Palma. -
202
Tayrona. -
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El Playon. -
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San Gil, Barichara and Guane. -
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La Vega. -
206
Finca Villa Maria. -
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Salento and Valle de Cocora. -
208
Filadelfia. -
209
Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya. -
210
Istanbul. -
211
Elverum. -
212
Trujillo, Mérida, Zafra, Jerez de los Caballeros. -
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Monsaraz. -
214
Sagres, Salema, Burgau and Praia da Luz. -
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Moguer, Palos de la Frontera and El Rocio. -
216
Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera. -
217
Sevilla, Aracena and Cáceres. -
218
Back where it all started. -
219
Paris. -
220
Back in Istanbul. -
221
Pereira. -
222
Rafting the Gallego River. -
223
High stakes in the Swedish capital. -
224
A short trip to the coast. -
225
A work trip to Basque Country. -
226
On the outskirts. -
227
In search for some Pulpo. -
228
Andalucian visitors. -
229
My big fat Greek slimeball. -
230
Cathedrals and pork blood. -
231
Now I know why it's so green here... -
232
Anyone for a slowcooked bear steak? -
233
Trapped. -
234
Checking out the Balti Capital of the world. -
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Checking out the neighborhood. -
236
Escaping the city heat, ...not really. -
237
A couple of months late for the Cherry Blossom. -
238
Stick it up your Volga. -
239
Toulouse. -
240
Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge Island. -
241
Luxembourg City. -
242
Celebrating 40. -
243
Torino -
244
Munich.
