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I’m hardly going to wax poetic in these updates, but I’m starting to feel melancholy creep in as we get toward the end of this magnificent journey. The group stage had me up nearly 18 hours a day, mostly in my hotel room — though I did get to sneak away to Waiheke Island where I fell in a pile of mud and it was wonderful. The...