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                    <title>Epilogue.....After the Storm......</title>
                    <description>Well we returned home by Friday evening all buzzing from our trip......some unpacking some food and some seriously broken sleep marked the first night home....and indeed a post noonawakening from our fitful first night backThen a nice evening out with Paul Caroline  Deborah before catching up with the Dr Who....all good.....and then another night where I slept but the children really didn</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Glenfield/blog-741015.html</link>
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                    <title>The End </title>
                    <description>Every book has an ending  so too will this blog.Wednesday evening soured a little when I received emails from United kindly telling me we were checked in ooh goodie But on opening their emails I soon discovered the buggers had ignored the fact that we had paid eight months ago to upgrade all our return seats to economy plus and had instead lobbed mine to the back of the craft.B39stards </description>
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                    <title>The Last Hurrah....With A Mystery </title>
                    <description>A somewhat relaxed departure from Pacific Grove  we couldn39t just race away from Zeus  and we headed on past Santa Cruz.....with a brief stop at a couple of stores partly so see if our UK Costco Card really would let us in over here  yes before winding our way up to the World Famous Mystery Spotfor an hour in the woods. Okay I am sure it is all simple optical illusions but the young la</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Alcatraz/blog-739758.html</link>
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                    <title>Monterey Manta Ray HumpbackBlueFin Whales...</title>
                    <description>Highway 120 out of Yosemite is another long  winding road.....but early on a Saturday morning most traffic was coming towards us so we enjoyed a relatively smooth drive west.The road was out further along due to a rockfall and a temporary bridge took us across to a single track road the other side of the Merced River quite some mess it certainly makes you appreciate how easy it is for commun</description>
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                    <title>Stalked by a Ranger......</title>
                    <description>An early farewell to LA with the expected traffic but at least we were soon the freeway heading northbound. Trading the city mayhem for some wilderness calm....so we hopedOur journey was expected to be long but event free. We followed Georgia39s recommendation to drop in on a Trader Joes store to get some supplies for a camp BBQ and what a gem of a store that is. Might be a chain but it c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Pacific-Grove/blog-739216.html</link>
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                    <title>LA Lifestyle.....</title>
                    <description>Well after the madness of Vegas comes the rush of LA.Quite a drive in a hot desert to get across on a Monday morning we made a decision to stop off at Calico Ghost Town an authentic exmining town from the silverrush days of the late 180039s. It was an interesting place but it has to be said the temperature was again in the 10039s and the best we could do was seek out occasional resp</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Hollywood/blog-738765.html</link>
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                    <title>Beatles Burros  Blog </title>
                    <description>In reverse order of course...Ellie has been doing some catching up  I thought it would be good to link to her blog much more photobased than mine  see httpwww.americatrip2012.tumblr.com  a pretty good reflection of some of the fun we39ve had so far. It39s hard to believe but we are only halfway through this adventure  a shattering trip but we39re seeing so much it39s a sh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-737997.html</link>
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                    <title>Native Americans  Paying Our Respects....</title>
                    <description>Parts of America have big spaces.. this was one of emThe drive to Yavapai Lodge was only around 150 miles but much of it was through areas given back to the Native Americans in a deal many years ago. Of course you could see why it would be given away dry hot car showed 90101 degrees most of the way and really nothing much to say for itself.Thank goodness for SAT Alt Na</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Lake-Havasu-City/blog-737669.html</link>
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                    <title>Storm chasing  rafting fun</title>
                    <description>Woke up at 2am.....heard a noise outside checked and saw a deer wandering off. So I was awake. Less than 100 yards from the rim of Bryce Canyon. I had to go check whether the stars were as astonishing as I hopedChristine heard me rustling about  clearly thought I was nuts. She was right. It was a bit windy and pitch black nearer the rim away from the low lighting round the lodges....and the sk</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Page/blog-737254.html</link>
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                    <title>Trains Planes  Automobiles.....</title>
                    <description>It was noted today that we had used many forms of transport thus far obviously we had flown out then 3 boats in NYC  the train to DC. now Winifred 6WNF999 our Jeep 4x4. Never fails to amaze me how car companies make such large waggons with so little real space inside. in the US case such rubbish MPG from the puny petrol engine 24 even allowing for USUK gallons....but at least</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/Bryce-Canyon/blog-737052.html</link>
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                    <title>Go West </title>
                    <description>We left a slumbering Stephen to catch up on some zzzs and shared a final hour or so with Nick Meg  Noah over breakfast..whilst casually taking part in that often underestimated holiday activity of ahem accidently losing some items in our bagokay pretty well a full breakfast for the aforementioned son to enjoy later.A decision to try to not leave it another 23 years was agreed </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/Salt-Lake-City/blog-736652.html</link>
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                    <title>Renewing Old Friendships</title>
                    <description>You know how it is when you put something precious down and can39t remember where it was... then you find it again  That feeling of joy when you realise you still have it Well we headed down to the breakfast to meet up with Nick Meg and their 13year old Noah.No big deal......except Nick  I shared college years almost 3 decades ago....we had vaguely kept in touch but life kinda got in t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/District-of-Columbia/Washington-D-C-/blog-736546.html</link>
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                    <title>Chalk  cheese</title>
                    <description>Bzzzt bzzzt bzzztAnother early alarm.....time to move on. A bleary eyed squad rose early to sign out at 7am  walk the short distance to Penn Station bidding a fond farewell to beautiful New Yorker Hotel.As always the Captain me... made everyone move far too early  it really was only 2 minutes over the road to the station and checkout took a further 2 minutes  so we had more than a little t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/District-of-Columbia/Washington-D-C-/blog-736216.html</link>
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                    <title>NYPD Blues.....</title>
                    <description>It39s always sad to say farewell to a place.....and NY we39ve had a blast Day 3 of the Grand Tour commenced with another early start heading a few blocks up the road to the Empire State Building ESB. A fantastic art deco structure we took the Skyride  narrated by Kevin Bacon....should we say a tad dated  before heading up to the 86th floor. No seethrough ceiling in the elevato</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-735968.html</link>
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                    <title>The Routemarch Begins....</title>
                    <description>It39s good to have a plan.Especially when you want to cram a lot of sightseeing in.Well my plan was to use exhaustion shock and awe as a means to kill jetlag stone dead.Of course it was me that woke up 0345 0445 then stayed awake until getting everyone up. DohWe set off early to hike to Pier 84 the air much clearer than the muggy afternoon  sudden thunderlightning evening storm o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-735514.html</link>
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                    <title>New York New York</title>
                    <description>So from London to New York First down to London and a great Saturday at Earls Court Two cracking 5set matches saw Italy steal the win from the Aussies and Russia do the same to the US teams. A bit up in the gods but a great view and over 5 hours of play. And we got to hold an Olympic Flame yeahNext up an overnight in Uxbridge and an early start to get to LHR for a 7am checkin. United fl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-735104.html</link>
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                    <title>More detail it's getting close </title>
                    <description>So a few days break on the sunny IOW. Family  friends to try to catch up with. Food to eat hills to hike and Shorwell Chute to Cycle up.... A lovely pause in procedings.....But planning to continue.We had many things organised by now. Booked a Vegas show the young 39un39s choice  Beatles Love a Canyon raft trip and the accomodation all sorted. Time for more closer detail.New York h</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Isle-of-Wight/Chale/blog-732976.html</link>
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                    <title>USA 2012 Phase One Military Planning</title>
                    <description>Well time flies......only seems yesterday when Christine  I got married on a beach in Mauritius with some friends  family around us when suddenly we realised our son was heading towards his GCSE39s aged 16....and we had never taken him or his sister to the States. Not even Disney. Disneyland Paris doesn39t count Despite me having worked for US companies for almost 2 decades.Shocking r</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Leicestershire/Glenfield/blog-732937.html</link>
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