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                    <title>Drake Passage via Cape Horn</title>
                    <description>Friday 26th Finishing up the drake passage means we were well past the convergence. The waters really started roughing up the boat by early morning 3amish. Breakfast time was also a good time to bring a catchers mitt since the plates and glasses slid from one side of the table to the next. The ups and downs also made it feel like I was eating on a roller coaster. Luckily the motion was also aki</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/blog-358691.html</link>
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                    <title>Arctic Convergence thru Drake Passage</title>
                    <description>Thursday 25th Back at sea and all caught up with journaling from previous days I feel awkwardly energized by a long sleep and a few cups of tea. The ships historian Steve gathered us round the lounge for story time. Today it was Shakletons adventure. While Steve is a particularly grumpy old man onshore he is equally charming at storytime onboard. When he gives his stories it is like </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Arctic/blog-358690.html</link>
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                    <title>Port Lockeroy and Orca Encounter</title>
                    <description>Wednesday 24thI was waken by the cusomtary wakeup call from the expedition leader. Good morning. Today is blah blah blah spectacular lighting good morning. You could tell the wakeup call was rehearsed as Lenny had been giving relatively the same call for over 20 years. But you could also tell that he really loves his job and that he was meant to be just where he was. Lenny seems to be </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-358689.html</link>
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                    <title>Snowy Petermann Island</title>
                    <description>Tuesday 23rd Currently cruising back to South America via Drake Passage I thought I would use this time to look back only a couple of days starting with this one the 23rd. And it is definitely going to be good that I write things down now as even just a few days between writing and Ive forgotten the specific days of the past the details may have been lost completely were it not for a few </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-358688.html</link>
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                    <title>Calvalanche at Neko Harbour</title>
                    <description>Monday 22nd Cuverville Island and Neko HarbourSitting back in the library Im glad Ive worked into a little routine with journaling. But there is so much thats been happening each day that it feels like I would need to spend hours writing to capture everything thats gone on. And with all the memories fresh in my head I realize now why my writing has been a bit scatter brained and some</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-358687.html</link>
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                    <title>Deceptively Cool Deception Island</title>
                    <description>Sunday 21st Today is Sunday and only because I have looked back at the previous journal dates do I know it is truly the day purported. This is what vacation should feel like. Last night although I wanted to recount my day I was a bit disappointed we were leaving the mainland to return to the Shetland islands which is still part of Antarctica but unmistakably a unique set of islands. Also the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/South-Shetland-Islands/blog-358686.html</link>
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                    <title>Blowin' to Brown Bluff</title>
                    <description>Saturday 20th Another early wakeup call from the expedition leader I have figured out his actual title. Baby emperor penguins off the port side. Great that means I can grab my shades and watch from my bed But I was up and ready to start another excellent day in the land of penguins and icebergs and that was what this day was particularly full of. From breakfast the boat maneuvered its way th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-358685.html</link>
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                    <title>Landing on the Ice</title>
                    <description>Friday 19th A 7am wakeup call told us the conditions made it too difficult to visit Brown Bluff a piece of the Antarctic Continent rather than an island of. So I fixed my eyes back to the pillow for a couple more hours. I even considered sleeping through breakfast until I heard a scraping sound across the boat. I quickly jumped out of bed and opened the covers. I tried to pry my eyes open to s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-358368.html</link>
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                    <title>I spy an Iceberg</title>
                    <description>Thursday 18thMaking excellent time across the drake passage the captain decided to drop us in the Shetland Islands at Half Moon Island. As I was eager to see land not because of fear of the open sea rather excitement built up from anticipation that I would be traveling to such a crazy place I remained up top while all the passengers scurried to the lounge for an expedition procedure briefing.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/South-Shetland-Islands/blog-358367.html</link>
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                    <title>Into The Drake</title>
                    <description>Wednesday 17th  The day consisted of trying to pry my eyes open. The waves werent huge 12 feet at best. But the lack of sleep caught up with me and maybe the pills enticed my eyes. This was a day at sea so nothing was really on tap. And the boat acted as my cradle rocking me back to sleep even if I woke up grumpy for some yucky or a ducky. I do remember a few waves coming quick and tippin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/blog-358366.html</link>
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                    <title>Arrive in Ushuaia</title>
                    <description>Tuesday 16th A beautiful 3 hour flight put us in Ushuaia the southernmost city in the world. From there we were bused into the Tierra del Fuego National Park and met with a catamaran for lunch. The captain of the catamaran showed his huevos grandes as he flipped the cat back and forth around a piece of island where about 30 sea lionlike creatures maxed out on the rocks. All 100 passengers wer</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-358365.html</link>
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                    <title>Santiago Stroll</title>
                    <description>Monday 15thWe walked around Santiago translated into English as Saint James after a hearty American breakfast. First a stroll around the local mall and then with the city tour offered by our hosts Lindblad Expeditions. 	The nicest part of the tour was a special walkthrough of the preColumbian museum. There the guide pointed to all the figures with big noses from tribes all across pre</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-358364.html</link>
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                    <title>En Route to the Ice</title>
                    <description>Sunday 14thOn Wednesday I was sitting for hours in the UN building. Thursday sitting for hours in a Dodge minivan until Slava and me pulled over in Nowhere North Carolina. Friday I reached Miami.  Saturday before noon I was in Bogota. And by that night my dad my uncle and me were sitting at a charming seafood restaurant in Santiago scarfing down Chilean sea bass and flaky eel. The restau</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-358362.html</link>
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                    <title>EVEREST</title>
                    <description>I'm almost to the top Just a few more blogs to write before the big day Hope you're all excited to hear about it Here's  a sneak peek at the peak</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Gorak-Shep/blog-234760.html</link>
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                    <title>Stroll to Lobuche</title>
                    <description>Last night I had so many vivid dreams... In one I showed up to work at BAP to see Primi. I was dressed in rags a bit like osama bin laden and felt dirty. Primi introduced me to a new person at the office and I said Oh I have just come back from trekking the himalayas like that would be a good enough excuse to show up to work looking like Tom Hanks in Castaway. Although lack of ability to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-234755.html</link>
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                    <title>Easy Day Climb Nangkar Tshang 16500ft</title>
                    <description>I write easy day because today is our acclimitization day where we 'rest' so our bodies acclimate to the 14k ft elevation. So on this day the three of us did a 2400 foot climb to the top of Nangkar Tshang. In reality it was a true test of endurance to realize if I had what it takes to make a similar climb from Gorak Shep to Kala Patar 18200 the elevation climax of my trip. The way up me</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-234674.html</link>
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                    <title>Less to Lesser Few to Fewer. But there's More.</title>
                    <description>Received a 5am wake up call. But this was more of a natural wake up call. It sounded like someone next door to me fell out of bed. But noone was around. It was an avalanche With my eyes closed I started doing the math in my head. It sounded close so if the snow came towards us it might make it over the ridge where we slept. But then I was on the second floor. But then this teahouse was made </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Dingboche/blog-234664.html</link>
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                    <title>Stairway to Thyangboche</title>
                    <description>Left Namche a bit late today so that meant no time for schmoozing in town. Rather I continued my meditative walk eventually winding up over 3000 feet higher than where we started. The trail was pristine as a nice old man had turned a small portion of the trail into a turnpike with a 'voluntary' fee for keeping the road wellpreserved. There were also some beautiful monuments set up along the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Tengboche/blog-234654.html</link>
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                    <title>Ama Dablam No Problem </title>
                    <description>Pictures Added Haven't had a chance to catch everyone up for a few days now. Since I last left off I spent a day in kathmandu enjoying the company of my wonderful guide Milan and seeing some really incredible things. So I'll give a brief update on that day then catch everyone up to where I am now Ive been writing in a little notebook so I made sure not to forget anything that caught my at</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Namche/blog-229526.html</link>
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                    <title>Question or Dare</title>
                    <description>By the way. Does anyone have anything they want me to do ask see buy or jump I'll do my best to grab any piece of information you are curious about and blog about it in my next journal. Just write a comment on this page and i'll reply below. Besides I wanna know who's with my on this thing NiteEric</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-228541.html</link>
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