Friday 21stNovember 2014 On Friday we stood on the Equator! We didn´t think it would be as momentous an event as it turned out to be. It is just a line, after all, painted on the ground, near a rather grand monument, but it means so much more when one reaches it. This yellow painted line is merely the manifest indication of the zero; the zero. It is pretty awesome, as in “Wow, this is the Equator! We are an equal distance from Pole to Pole! There are very few places in the world where one can stand on the Equator, so few people have done so. We felt extremely lucky to do so. Ecuador and Kenya are the only two countries in the world with equatorial temperate climates. Elsewhere,
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