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Hey there dudes and dudettes… this is my first ever bloggedy blog…YAY!!!!!! Avril’s been writing all the other entries but of course hers are nice and polite so it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty…

Man… we are so FREAKED OUT… what the f.uck are we doing going overseas and having a big party at the same time…

For those of you who don’t know what we are doing, we are planning 10 days in Argentina and Brazil, 2 weeks in the Galapagos Islands, 3 weeks in COLOMBIA (Holy Crap who’s dumb idea is that), 3 weeks in Nicaragua and then 3 weeks in Cuba before we eventually hit San Francisco for my cousin Lisa’s wedding.

We are then going to base ourselves in Ireland for a year and try and bum around Europe with a side trip to Africa and also Jordan and then we’ll come back via India, Tibet, and Mongolia where we’ll try and catch up with our mate Mick Sharry who is working over in Mongolia somewhere.

About a couple of months ago it really hit us that we are REALLY going to Colombia one of the most dangerous places in the world. Now, last time we were in South America in 1998, we avoided it because there was an election on and we had heard that there was a kidnapping every week.
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