Kel: New York, New York…. very, very excited. It's the third visit for both of us but I reckon this is my favourite city in the world so we're dead happy to keep lapping it up as much as possible. First up, we got the welcome committee at the airport from Kevin Bacon and his wife. He was looking very very skinny but we refrained from telling him that (or asking for his autograph at the conveyor belt) Trekking across NY avec bags was ok actually but we were ...

Matt: A very strange day today leaving South America and heading back into the modern Western world. We had had all day to spend in Lima and eventually got to the airport, through the slightly nuts Lima traffic, where we had a panic moment when the check in assistant couldn't get us booked in - a problem caused by the changes of our flights after the Mexico swine flu incident. So after about 25 panicky minutes standing at the check in desk with the dude gett...