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                    <title>Playa del Carmen  Activities  Tulum  102709  112709</title>
                    <description>While in Playa del Carmen we also took a daytrip to Tulum. Tulum is just about an hour bus ride from Playa del Carmen so it was an easy trip... or at least it should have been. We ended up going into the city of Tulum after missing the bus stop for the Tulum ruins. This was good and bad. The good was that we were able to walk around and see the city. The bad was we ended up walking about five </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Tulum/blog-519776.html</link>
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                    <title>Playa del Carmen  Activities  102709  112709</title>
                    <description>PeopleWatchingPeoplewatching in Playa is outstanding they come from all over the world to Playa del Carmen. Granted most are probably from the U.S. Canada and other parts of Mexico. But on any given walk down Quinta Avenida if you listen you are almost guaranteed to hear plenty of people speaking something other than English or Spanish.A block east of Quinta Avenida there is of course a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-464261.html</link>
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                    <title>Playa del Carmen  Spanish School  102709  112709</title>
                    <description>39You  the good pilot up there what do you really want... you want to go very fast in the wrong direction or slowly in the good direction39  Betrand Piccard  a question posed to him by a weatherman during his balloon flight around the world.People ask me a lot why I39m learning Spanish.  Reasonable question.  It comes down to many things... dreams goals interests. Prior to this b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Playa-del-Carmen/blog-464243.html</link>
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                    <title>Cancun  Isla Mujeres  Playa del Carmen  102709  112709</title>
                    <description>I've decided to become fluent in Spanish.  To accomplish this I'm planning to study quite a bit in various countries.  The first stop was at the IH Riviera Maya Spanish school in Playa del Carmen Mexico.  My mom is also studying Spanish and she was able to make this trip as well.   Of the five weeks in Mexico we spent three weeks taking classes.The reason we picked the CancunPlaya del Carmen </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Quintana-Roo/Cancun/blog-451173.html</link>
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                    <title>Pench National Park</title>
                    <description>This post is way overdue as I'm posting it on July 31 2010... over two years later... better late than never.Wow time flies fast.  It has almost been three week since I returned from India.  You may be thinking What did Henry love about India.  You have read about things that like and the stuff I really don't like there.  I even got a bit of criticism for comments on Mumbai and New Delh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Madhya-Pradesh/blog-270686.html</link>
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                    <title>Gilboa Quarry  NAUI Advanced Diver Course</title>
                    <description>Note I'm woefully behind on my travel blog entries but I will catch them up over the next few months I still haven't written about the rest of the NZ trip Thailand Cambodia or Japan.What an awesome weekend  Though it was another weekend in a plane... except for the big difference that instead of in a plane in the air I was in one submerged   A few weeks ago I took the plunge and sign</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Ohio/blog-422440.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ Day 9  Te Anau  Milford Sound</title>
                    <description>We arrived in Te Anau driving from Queenstown the evening before.  Te Anau is quiet and small... even with it being the height of tourist season and everything booked up it was still calm.  I guess they only have a very limited capacity of hotel rooms.Te Anau is at the edge of Fiordland National Park the largest national park in NZ and one of the largest in the world and next to Lake Te Anau.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Milford-Sound/blog-391904.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ Days 7  8  Wanaka and Queenstown</title>
                    <description>Day 7We started out the day in Wanaka with breakfast at a cafe with a good view of the Laka Wanaka and the surrounding mountains.  It was sunny with a light breeze.After breakfast we walked around a bit and along the shore.  Wanaka is similar to Queenstown in that it is by a lake and has great views of mountains.  And Wanaka and Queenstown are about an hour drive apart.We then started our drive t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-389681.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ Day 6  Fox Glacier  South Island West Coast</title>
                    <description>Another early rise... we packed up at the hostel and were on our way to Fox Glacier.  It was raining for most of the drive which made it more difficult to see the scenery.  We were concerned that our hike up the glacier might be cancelled.Nevertheless the drive was scenic though the road was as in much of NZ very curvy and hilly.  This was one of the day's that Robert planned and he planned </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Fox-Glacier/blog-374412.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ Day 5  Punakaiki</title>
                    <description>Christmas  The idea was that the coastal towns of Greymouth and the nearby Punakaiki would be the perfect place to relax while we celebrated Christmas.  And stay relatively in one place.  After getting ready we headed up the coast about an hour to Punakaiki.  Punakaiki is mostly known for its pancake rocks and blowholes.  Its coast in general is beautiful as well.To get to the pancake roc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Punakaiki/blog-366720.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 4  TranzAlpine Train</title>
                    <description>Our fourth day fell on Christmas Eve and was one of relative rest the first three days were a whirlwind of activity.  When we were planning the trip we knew that by the end of the third day we would be spent so for the fourth day taking a scenic train through the mountains from coast to coast seemed to fit well.The TranzAlpine travels from Christchurch on the east coast to Greymouth on the west</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Greymouth/blog-366472.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ  Day 3  Ferry Marlborough and NE Coast</title>
                    <description>A little background.  For me this was a dream come true.  Two years ago a yearned to go to NZ.  Everyone... EVERYONE I talked to that had visited or lived in NZ had nothing but great things to say.  However with costs time etc. I just kind of left it hang in the back of my mind as something to do down the road.  Sometime.  Someday.Then I was assigned a project in Sydney and noticed two beauti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Marlborough/Blenheim/blog-361918.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ  Day 2  Lake Taupo Tongariro National Park and the Countryside</title>
                    <description>We left Waitomo around 8 AM and headed to Huka Falls on the north side of Lake Taupo.  On this drive it began to get mountainous and has been that way for most of our trip so far eight days in.  Huka Falls is where the aquacolored Waikato River flows over a narrow 11 meter ledge.  The gap it flows through before falling is relatively narrow so the water is turbulent and forceful passing throug</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Tongariro-National-Park/blog-357657.html</link>
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                    <title>NZ  Day 1  Auckland and Waitomo</title>
                    <description>Robert and Vanessa arrived at the Auckland airport at around 5 AM.  I picked them up from the airport and we drove on the left hand side of the road to the Hilton Hotel on Prince's Wha.  They got refreshed and had breakfast overlooking the harbour.We then walked to the Sky Tower and got a panoramic view of the city.  Auckland is built on an active field of volcanoes and we could see many of them</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-357531.html</link>
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                    <title>Sydney</title>
                    <description>It was snowing when I flew out of Kalamazoo.  Total time in transit with three flights and the layovers took about 24 hours.  I travelled with a coworker.  The transpacific flight was on an A380... which on Qantas seats 450 passengers it is a doubledecker superjumbo jet.We arrived in Sydney to a temperature in the mid80s 25 Celsius with mostly sunlight.  We took a taxi to the hotel had </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-354081.html</link>
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                    <title>Skydiving in Hastings MI</title>
                    <description>Please scroll down to see videos belowSooo.... skydiving.  Definitely something I've wanted to do for awhile but for various reasons haven't timing money busyness etc.. Last week I watched the birth of a niece.  Why not go skydiving this weekend  The two weeks before I was drivingriding in a car for about 40 hours and traversed 2300 miles... that was on the weekends.  The rest was work </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/blog-307623.html</link>
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                    <title>DelhiAgraTaj Mahal</title>
                    <description>Jamas arrived on Thursday night.  I went to the International Airport and waited for a little over an hour.  Jamas' flight was a little late and I waited in a little seated area while mosquitoes swirled around and other friends and family awaited other passengers.  Eventually Jamas ambled out and we headed to the hotel.  It was great to to see Jamas and great to have him in India.  We only got ab</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Uttar-Pradesh/Agra/blog-267887.html</link>
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                    <title>Mumbai Bombay</title>
                    <description>...a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature  Author's Note Life of PiIt almost beat the restlessness out of me until I went to Pench National Park.  India in the words of my friend Roberto is intense.  More specifically Bombay Mumbai since 1995 and Delhi are intense.  By the end of my stay in Bombay I was questioning how much I wanted to travel in the f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Mumbai/blog-267869.html</link>
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                    <title>Los Angeles</title>
                    <description>LA.  Historical.  Overdone.  Overpromoted.  Maybe the most well known city in the world.  I wasn't sure what to expect.  At one end is the Hollywoodside perception films beauty plastic surgery fake.  Another perception is of a crimeriddled riot prone danger zone.  Yet one more is the laid back beach scene  surfing volleyball sunning leisure.And I could see those aspects in LA.  But</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/blog-270288.html</link>
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                    <title>Pikeville KY</title>
                    <description>Well after some persuasion I've decided to post an entry on Pikeville KY.  I guess if an entry from the remote parts of the world outside the U.S. are worthy of blog entries why not note remote parts of the U.S.Pikeville KY is nestled in the Cumberland Mountains part of the larger Appalachian Mountain range it is a good two hour drive from the closest city  Charleston WV and about two </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/blog-250845.html</link>
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