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                    <title>Capital Time</title>
                    <description>Well the capital city of Laos Vientaine was good for what most capital cities are picking up some essentials doing a bit of shopping and some monument sight seeing. This was to be Charya's last stop on the moto trip as she decided she would rather fly back to Phnom Penh. The city itself is a beautiful city but other than some temples museums and monuments there is really no activities there.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Vientiane/blog-529111.html</link>
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                    <title>Time for a Party</title>
                    <description>        So Vang Vieng was a pretty chill city. While it is true that many backpackers talk bad about Vang Vieng mostly because they don't know how to relax and have a good time I found it to be quite refreshing. We have spent most of out trip in the middle of nowhere eating mystery meats and trying not to order a spoon when all we want is something to drink. Sometimes you just need to wind up </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-526623.html</link>
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                    <title>A Sleepy Riverside Town</title>
                    <description>Luang Prabang is certainly that. The main area of the town is where two large rivers combine the Mekong and the Nam Khan. As the rivers get closer to each other the town gets slimmer and slimmer until it ends in a small peninsula. Our welcome was unfriendly as we were pulled over at the very edge of town about 12km outside the city. We were asked for our titles to the bikes which we happily co</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-524001.html</link>
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                    <title>Just a photo Blog</title>
                    <description>Had some problems uploading the photos last time. It changed some names and did not upload others. So adding a few more.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-523985.html</link>
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                    <title>The Journey to Phonsovan</title>
                    <description>So it wasn't quite one day. Nobody had expected what the roads would be like. We should have known better really. I mean the steep and winding road from the border to Xam Nuea made for an interesting ride but this. This was something different altogether. It was a beautiful day for riding. Sunny with a bit of cloud cover. We started relatively early and it was already warm enough that you didn't</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/East/Phonsavan/blog-523204.html</link>
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                    <title>I finally Made it </title>
                    <description>I have been trying to get to Laos now for my last couple of trips to SEA but never seemed to quite make it. Well not anymore I am finally here. To my dear mother you might not want to read the first couple of paragraphs here. To continue where we left off....So it is now dark and we have to drive 65km more to the closest town. Of course before we can finish crossing through the Laos side of the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/East/Vieng-Xai/blog-521359.html</link>
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                    <title>On The Road</title>
                    <description>Well we did it. We finally got moving and it is great. We seem to have fixed Chuck's bike. We have been doing better now that we are doing most of the work ourselves. The mechanics in Vietnam are like the ones back home. They fix one thing and then the next day something else breaks. We left Hanoi for the last time four days ago. We had one bad break down along the way that we could not fix and it</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Central-Highlands/blog-521350.html</link>
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                    <title>Its About Time Huh</title>
                    <description>Ok all you travelblog junkies. Here it is. Your first travelblog from the trip. A bit delayed I know but hey things have been a bit delayed here too. So we are even. You might want to get comfortable for this as it may be a long one.... We can start with the basics then the fun. We made the rounds upon first arriving. Here three weeks ago. We stopped in Saigon to say hi to our friend Thanh. We w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-519301.html</link>
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                    <title>New Places in Old Cities</title>
                    <description>So I wound up heading back to Siam Reap. Why not right It is just a 5 hour bus ride for 5. I had a much better time there this time than last actually. I did some things that I guess maybe are not as popular versus going for just Angkor Wat. I went along with three Cambodian girls and one Loation girl. They are the same ones that gave me a ride from Sihanoukville after my bike got stolen. It is </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-316258.html</link>
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                    <title>Back in One of My Favorite Countries</title>
                    <description>So I went back to a nice beautiful beach and was relaxing for a few days without a care in the world...then the bomb dropped. The first really shitty thing happened on my trip. My bike was stolen last night. I parked it in front of a beach restaurant in Shanoukville there was a lock around the tire and everything and when I came out around 1030pm the bike was gone. I talked to the tuk tuk guys </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-313726.html</link>
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                    <title>Alcohol Police and Motorbikes What a Combination</title>
                    <description>Well I had as always a few more interesting experiences before I leave Vietnam. Tomorrow I head back to Cambodia to enjoy some beach time. I have been quite disappointed in the beaches in Vietnam and the water at the beaches I have been to has been way to cold for swimming at least from my Floridan perspectives. So the other day I am sitting at a traffic light and this asshole in the car next t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-310468.html</link>
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                    <title>Off The Path</title>
                    <description>So we head down to this girls home town. A province called    . She did not tell her family that she was coming or that she was bringing a foreigner. So as you can imagine there was a bit of a commotion when we arrived. At first were quite stand offfish and not very friendly. She explained to me that they were worried I was her boyfriend. She explained to them that this was not the case but they </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/blog-307461.html</link>
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                    <title>Cu Chi and Caodaism</title>
                    <description>We figured we had to do at least one tourist thing in Vietnam while Chuck was here. We decided to do the Cu Chi Tunnels and the caodai temple. The Cu Chi tunnels are the underground tunnels the Vietcong used to escape from the b52 bombs and sneak up into the U.S. Army camps and set traps. The people wound up living underground and their is a complex network of tunnels about 200 or more kilometers</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/Cu-Chi/blog-305802.html</link>
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                    <title>Food Lovers Blog</title>
                    <description>This blog is for all the fans of What the Hell is Brett Eating Now So Chuck and I head back to Saigon and we decide it si time to have some advnetures in food. Chuck is like me and will try just about anything. It was great in the couple of plaes with english menus where we could pick weird stuff to eat. The game is not quite as much fun when the whole menu is in Vietnamese and you pick somethi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-305796.html</link>
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                    <title>No Passport No Room</title>
                    <description>So we headed from Long Hai up Mui Ne. We had quite a bit of an adveture getting there as we did not take the main road. We took a small coastal road and went the wrong way quite a few times. I nailed a chicken on the way up as well but he seemed pretty unfazed by it. We also learned that asking directions is just a bad idea here. They have no clue where you want to guy but they really want to he</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Binh-Thuan/Mui-Ne/blog-305163.html</link>
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                    <title>Immigration Thieves</title>
                    <description>So we find ourselevs in local vacation spot called Long Hai. It is a place where Vietnamiese people from Saigon go on holiday. There was not really much going on there so we decided to leave after one day but as always there was an adventure or two to be had. We go wandering looking for dinner around appearantly everything closes very early in Long Hai. We did get lucky enough to find a party of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ba-Ria-Vung-Tau/Vung-Tau/blog-304573.html</link>
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                    <title>Welcome to Vietnam</title>
                    <description>So arriving in Vietnam was definitely a bit of an adventure. Our agency that issued us our vietnamiese visas said that we could bring a credit card to pay for the visa on arrival. Appearantly that was not the case. Chuck also did not have a passport photo. We wound up having a guard escort us through immigration where the immigration guy proceeded to ask Chuck for his hat for letting us through wi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-303566.html</link>
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                    <title>Another Island Stopover</title>
                    <description>We have a nice quick flight to an island called Palawan. Nothing better than an hour long flight. Quick easy and you get somewhere completely different. Our first night there we stayed in Puerto Princessa. That place is not that cool. Some people use it for a jumping off point for day trips but everything interesting is at least 2 hours away. We went island hopping the day next day and it was n</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Palawan/Sabang/blog-302632.html</link>
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                    <title>On The Verge and Back Again</title>
                    <description>I find myself wandering the streets of Manila at 600am wondering about the funny feeling in my stomach as search for answers on how to get to Dau. Jeff and I finally figure out which bus station we need to get to as well as how to get there. Off we go on a local bus to the Cubao Bus Station. As we are riding the bus I begin to realize that funny feeling is not so funny anymore and I am waiting to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-302615.html</link>
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                    <title>Adopted in Phnom Penh</title>
                    <description>I had a great time the last two days with the Khmer family. Jeff and I went to dinner there two nights ago. A friend from the guest house came as well. It was great. The food was good. We talked with the whole family for like 5 hours. We also drank.... a lot. We asked him what he likes to drink and he told us Johnnie Walker Red Label. We brought him a bottle of that as well as 2 bottles of red win</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-295872.html</link>
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