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                    <title>Punch it Margaret this is China</title>
                    <description>Catapulted into the political epicenter after 18 hours of travel the patriotism is super palpable in Beijing. Over the next four days I tiptoe around religious topics and some seemingly very personal political topics  IMO the influence of Mao is still totally alive. But everything else is fair game and multiquestioned mostly revolving around my age nationality why I39m traveling alone</description>
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                    <title>I like 'em SSF. Strong Silent  Foreign</title>
                    <description>She simply sets her stuff down and washes her hands. which I39m super thankful for laterNo consent forms. Only a hand sign for face up and one for face down.There39s no pressure of seeing each other...ever again. A calm in the air I just brewed Green Tea...I mean actually red wine is sooo good. Dimmed lights 6000 miles from home in a luxury suite overlooking Beijing I39m warmed b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-688798.html</link>
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                    <title>Hello Paradise...it's been way too long</title>
                    <description>Just a few pics to get us started...</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-463073.html</link>
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                    <title>A Fun Pictoversion about SE Alaska</title>
                    <description>We headed out of Juneau on the slow boat ferry to Haines.  Can I just say this was....by far the best 4 hours in Alaska  Party of 5 on the top deck enjoying not only beautiful sunny weather but warm weather delicious margaritas and so much seafood...it was friggin' sweet  Haines was totally awesome and I can see why people never leave.  It was packed full with writers painters sculpters mus</description>
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                    <title>The Final Frontier</title>
                    <description>Alaska was the trip to complete the North American adventure voyage...that's why I feel like I gotta keep moving since it took me 31 years to cover that much ground and to think that North America is only a fraction of the globe if I kept my current pace I would never get 'er done before I hit 65 in which I time I wanna be taken out back and put down with diginity gawd damnit.  ...wow does </description>
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                    <title>Kicking Hunger and Breaking World Records</title>
                    <description>Seriously  This weekend had to be way up there for one of the coolest things I've ever done  I'm super proud of the accomplishment endurance spirit dedication and team effort of breaking Guiness' Book of World Records for the Longest Kickball Game  Shaun myself and about 40 other rockstars proudly endured 33 hours of one of our favorite pastimes kickball  Yup the big 'ole red bouncy s</description>
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                    <title>Pug Crawl</title>
                    <description>I do declare...Pug owners are the best  Lindsay and Lucy pug owners of course took Heather and I to Portland's 9th Annual Pug Crawl hosted by Mac Tarnahan's Taproom to benefit the Oregon Humane Society this spring celebrating Pugstock Pugs Peace  Love.  This was a legit 'festy' with vendors contests music fashion show a pug kissing booth doggy massages and beer of course.  Normally</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Portland/blog-413811.html</link>
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                    <title>Hendrix Starbuck's  Bruce Lee</title>
                    <description>Oh my Gawd...I'm friggin' funny.  Like gettin' awards funny... like should I be  sorry  I'm so funny while you're kealed over in laughtertears and pee in your pants kinda funny   Actual 'Thank You' cards from persons ie Angie from her birthday party where she 'thanked me' for being the entertainement.  Let's start there who gets thank yous from friends' bithdays from the birthday friends </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-413791.html</link>
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                    <title>The Meanest Goose Ever...</title>
                    <description>I'm totally scared of birds.  My mother has an infinite fear of the feathery friends and she instilled shear panic in me dating decades back when my dad and I tried to save a fallen baby finch with a broken wing and my mom wouldn't let me touch it or open the shoe box to give it more food or water despite it was crying for its baby momma insisting it had rabies.  Do birds get rabies  I never </description>
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                    <title>I Heart Oregon</title>
                    <description>Not long after the jet lag wore off returning from our hiatus in Asia  more about that later...how I am by trying to publish my debaucherious tails that I've dubbed 'Into the Orient I Did Not Do Any Illegal Drugs in Asia' book...with full color pictures and zero spell check todate  I myself was off...down the Oregon Coast for a bit of work for the week.  You know for that 'jobby thingy' tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Coos-Bay/blog-405087.html</link>
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                    <title>Let's Wrap this Baby Up</title>
                    <description>Wow  Let's just say It's about friggin' time  I can't pinpoint the exact reason I haven't finalized our Asia breakdown other than the harsh bitch slap back into reality of being gone for over a month returning to of course all hell breaking loose.  I swear you would think the world was going to come to an end when pallet after pallet of seasonal goods are delivered and the underthanked</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-390741.html</link>
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                    <title>Bugs In My Belly</title>
                    <description>Yes 5 to be exact.  Team Grasshoppa takes the lead with 4 Team Beetle holding notsostrong with 1.  It was all fried so yes some people may say that it fell under the umbrella of all fried food is yummy.  There wasn't a chickenesque taste remotely encountered here even when eating actual chickens or with any of the other weird unidentified meat that I ate served on a stick in Thailand.  </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-370606.html</link>
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                    <title>Buddhas  Bras Please</title>
                    <description>We had plans for awhile to get on our Temple clothes head out early and tour the islands' Wats.  We had to take my mom to the airport early so we figured this would be a great day to wear our only long pants and shortsleeved shirts and beat the crowds.  There is about 20 Wats on Samui so we picked a few and started off before the real heat of the day forced us to flee to the ocean.  It was bea</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-370608.html</link>
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                    <title>Speedboats Ellies  ATV's</title>
                    <description>I had taken notice of all the speedboats out on the water on previous days that we'd been out to Sea and having grown up vacationing with my cousins who had a boat...memories of wind whipped hair rosy cheeks and pure summerfun exhaustion from skiing and tubing all day were enough to set my next plan in motion.  This was also the last day my mom would be here and she too is an avid boat rider </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ang-Thong-Marine-NP/blog-370605.html</link>
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                    <title>Something Goes Bump in the Night...</title>
                    <description>The day starts with our own trading we have Baht they have a freshness from their homes and their aching hands and their fruitfull land.  The exchange is brief but worthy to both.  My sensory is on overload with the sights and smells  that are not from home.  I doubt they are retelling the stories though maybe an exchange of chuckles with the vendor a few stalls over.  A dip in the Sea a fre</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-370340.html</link>
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                    <title>Jungle Trekking now includes visits to the Temple and the Sea</title>
                    <description>You've heard all about the Ellie Trek from Shaun in the last post.  Well yes we did that on this tour along with other completely random acts around and about the island.  I am not a huge fan of the guided tour thing for a ton of reasons but for one maybe I never really grew out of that teenager phase of I hate being told what to do.  It doesn't matter what or why my immediate response to some</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-370273.html</link>
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                    <title>Meditations on Elephant Trekking</title>
                    <description>I was born in 1979 so transportation in my lifetime has consisted mainly of combustionengine powered mechanical conveniences.  Now I've done my time on bicycles and skates skiis and boats planes and three wheelers but I've never been put in a position where the only method of transportation was animal.  I've only riden a horse once and the power you can feel in the beast beneath you and th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-369021.html</link>
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                    <title>Scooters</title>
                    <description>My fascination of the scooter trend has resulted in a list of sorts that may or may not be suitable blogging material.  I'm gonna go for it  As our midway point in this holiday is approaching I can almost feel the sensations dull of seeing a toddler hold on for dear life as he stands up in front of his sitting parent while they are balancing a 50 lb bag of rice in the rear of the bike making a r</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Samui/blog-367246.html</link>
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                    <title>Meditations on a Buffet Breakfast</title>
                    <description>  Today Heidi and I had an enormous breakfast eggs over easy fried potatoes waffles sausage piles of bacon salad topped with cheese croissants dragon fruit pineapple mango cantaoupe pinepple juice coffee and no papaya  we stiill haven't developed a taste for it   This was all you can eat and it was in vast contrast to the meager breakfasts we'd been having which consisted mainl</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi-Don/blog-369001.html</link>
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                    <title>Best Day Ever  27 pics to prove it</title>
                    <description>So it seems that everyone really does love the pictures  Well since my last picture blog went over so well I'll do another.  Here's a quicky on what we did for the best day ever  This is without a doubt the highlight of our trip...so far  Shaun and I hired a Longtail boat for the day yes 7 full hours for about 40...such a deal  This area which happens to be the set of islands that compil</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/South-West-Thailand/Ko-Phi-Phi-Don/blog-368642.html</link>
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