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<title>Travel Blog | Eyelidoc</title>
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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Eyelidoc</description>
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                    <title>Meeting 1</title>
                    <description>Monday May 20 2013 Chengdu The best laid plans often need to be changed maybe even more often here in West China. If that frustrates you too much you probably wont survive here. If you adapt it may present opportunity you never imagined possible. With that foreshadowing...The symposium ran overtime. Admittedly we had started a bit later than anticipated grabbed a quick sandwich before h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-786826.html</link>
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                    <title>Symposium</title>
                    <description>Monday May 20 2013 Chengdu After a welcome dinner and a good nights rest we were up early for breakfast at the Tien Chen Lou. The challenge for many of us is to find a coffee and b salt and pepper  somehow these are not amenities. Finding coffee has become much simpler with each passing year. Theres none in the restaurant but we can now find some premixed sweetened whitened coffee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-786823.html</link>
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                    <title>Rough weather back home...</title>
                    <description>May 20 2013 Chengdu We39re watching channel 4 live from OKC and seeing the rough weather everyone is under right now. Stay safe folks</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-786673.html</link>
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                    <title>Chengdu</title>
                    <description>May 20 2013 Chengdu China Yesterday was largely taken up as a travel day getting to Chengdu and settling in to the Hotel Tian Chen Lou on Qing Hua Road. Our hosts graciously met and picked us up at the airport in two large hospital vans for a 30 minute drive to the hotel. The flight was uneventful and our first impression of Chengdu is always from the air as we39re landing  the air was mu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chengdu/blog-786664.html</link>
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                    <title>HKG Airport</title>
                    <description>May 19 2013 Hong Kong All checked in and ready to board at the HKG Airport. Built on the island of Chek Lap Kok an island largely reclaimed specifically for the construction of the airport itself. We have a 3 hour flight to Chengdu and are all looking forward to meeting up with the SPPH ophthalmology team there. The airport is an impressive layout one of the largest and busiest passenger and c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/blog-786552.html</link>
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                    <title>At the Peak</title>
                    <description>May 18 2013 Victoria39s Peak Hong Kong Island As Dr. Farris likes to say  its tradition. Around 5 PM local time we all met up at the Star Ferry landing on the Kowloon side to take the ferry over to Hong Kong island. Dominated by the world39s 8th tallest office building  the 88 story International Finance Center the Hong Kong skyline is an impressive endless line of high rise buildin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Hong-Kong-Island/The-Peak/blog-786536.html</link>
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                    <title>Saturday in Hong Kong</title>
                    <description>May 18 2013 Kowloon After a great breakfast buffet in the hotel we split into groups and did our own exploring of the Hong Kong area. It is quite warm muggy and overcast  hot and humid 30 C 94 humidity. The CCEW team went up north of the city to see a Buddhist Temple of some repute. Dr. Farris took a group to wander through his Hong Kong 39hood39...those who39ve been here bef</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-786419.html</link>
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                    <title>Where in the world is...</title>
                    <description>An aerial satellite view of Hong Kong Bay.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-786381.html</link>
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                    <title>Lost and Found</title>
                    <description>This story has a nice ending. Insomnia at 3 am...so I turn to problem solvingWhen we travel I usually carry an extra stash of electronics to help connectivity issues  plug adapters cords flash drives etc. I tried something new  to make them more accessible during the airport stays and flights  and put them in a small nylon pouch about the size of a shaving kit. I forgot it on the Airport E</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-786379.html</link>
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                    <title>HKG</title>
                    <description>May 17 2013 Kowloon We made it CX885 touched down after 14 hours and 33 minutes of flight to a warm and humid Hong Kong. We all caught up on movies and reruns of TV shows during the flight. We passed through immigration with ease and then gathered up our luggage and 3 taxis to the Harbor Plaza Metropolitan Hotel in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Kowloon and in our rooms before 9 PM local time. We</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Hong-Kong/Kowloon/blog-786338.html</link>
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                    <title>Bright City Lights  Neuro Hangin' with the Stars </title>
                    <description>May 16 2013 Los Angeles I know offthebat that this has nothing to do with the purpose of the trip but my job as a blogger pseudo journalist is to give the readers some insight into the behindthescene action.Being in LA the lights shine brighter.So I39m sitting in the AA Admiral39s Club in LAX working Dr. Skuta and all of a sudden I notice that our neuroophthalmology team is gone</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-786200.html</link>
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                    <title>LAX</title>
                    <description>May 16 2013 Los Angeles All team members scheduled to be on this leg of the trip made it to the flight with plenty of time to spend. We took the  American Airlines regional jet flight directly from OKC to LAX. The Oklahoma team had a smooth timely flight to Los Angeles where we are scheduled to have a 4 hour layover. Ill briefly introduce you to the current group and will give you more deta</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/LAX/blog-786193.html</link>
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                    <title>And they're off </title>
                    <description>The four of us from DMEI met at the institute and were picked up by Airport Express a few minutes after five...actually closer to 520...long enough to get just a bit worried the van wouldn39t show We met up with the OU CCEW team to fly to Los Angeles. We are all at Will Rogers World Airport ...lining up at Gate 6...off to see the world Next up date from LA</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oklahoma/Oklahoma-City/blog-786160.html</link>
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                    <title>Getting prepared...China 2013 Trip</title>
                    <description>May 14 2013 Oklahoma City OK Final preparations for  Dean McGee39s Global Eye Care Program39s visit to Chengdu China are underway. Final clinical responsibilities packing and getting the best seating we can on the flights over are all done. One more day of work to tidy things up before we leave for ten days. The team this year includes two DMEI faculty one fellow one resident two o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oklahoma/Oklahoma-City/blog-785941.html</link>
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                    <title>Good Shepherd Eye Clinic</title>
                    <description>Siteki Swaziland  Dr. Pons works through the Good Shepherd Hospital  a nominally Catholic Institution that is now largely funded with government funds. He has support from CBM as well a EuropeanCanadianbased eye care mission. This is where most of our clinical work was done  working in the clinic on Wednesday and Friday with a day of surgery on Thursday.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/blog-777649.html</link>
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                    <title>The Plane</title>
                    <description>Siteki Swaziland  Dr. Pons is a private pilot and has a plane on Mabuda farms. It is a wellmaintained 1968 white and yellow Piper 4seater. The farm has an airstrip and he took us up for a tour of the area around the farm. A beautiful perspective of the Lubombo Mountain range and a view into Mozambique.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/blog-777645.html</link>
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                    <title>Weather</title>
                    <description>March 15 2013 Cape Town RSA We speak and sign of windy and variable weather conditions in Oklahoma but I suspect Cape Town could give us a run for the money. We39ve had highly variable weather conditions here  most of it quite pleasant but very different each day. Day one we had the south easter winds blowing. We went on a tour of the peninsula and getting out to get a view off one of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Cape-Town/blog-776161.html</link>
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                    <title>The Mabuda House</title>
                    <description>Siteki Swaziland March 24th Trying to catch up on emails while waiting in the airport in Joburg. One of the real jems in Swaziland is the homestead main house on Mabuda Farms. This has been in Mrs. Pons39 family since the 180039s when they managed sugar plantations in Swaziland. The Pons family has taken over the farm and restored the house to its original purpose and it really stands out</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/blog-777644.html</link>
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                    <title>The Kings Birthday  </title>
                    <description>March 19 2013 Siteki Swaziland Swaziland is a monarchy in the truest sense. The King Mswati III of Swazilands birthday is a national holiday. Each year it is held in one of four regions and this year it is in Siteki. Were witnessing preparations for the kings celebration seeing an upgrade to roads hell travel on they are being converted from rutfilled rocky paths to paved blackt</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/blog-776694.html</link>
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                    <title>The Eye Care Team  </title>
                    <description>March 19 2013 Siteki Swaziland The team that has come to visit Dr. Pons here in Swaziland includes five of us from Dean McGee Eye Institute Dr. Brad Farris is a neuroophthalmologist who has been leading international work for DMEI for over a decade. Dr. James Simonson is the director of anesthesia at the McGee Eye Surgery Center and has come along to help advance develop and support anesthe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/blog-776696.html</link>
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