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                    <title>Chuzu qiche The Chinese Taxi Experience</title>
                    <description>My reflections on China usually have to do with people I knew or things I saw and most of those memories come from the perspective of standing at attention in a hotel lobby. Working for 13 months in a hotel the landscape of my memory is filled with rooms halls passages elevators. But in telling stories of my time in China I notice that a pattern emerges many interesting experiences took pla</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-711123.html</link>
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                    <title>Perigee Full Moon 2011</title>
                    <description>The celestial event as viewed in this part of the globeMy boyfriend and I got out early to play frisbee at the park before sunset then grabbed our camera gear and set up near an old stately house.  His camera was able to include the house.  My camera a simpler pointandshoot couldn't handle the sky for that so unfortunately I cannot post anything that dramatic.Interesting to note that some fi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-587609.html</link>
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                    <title>Vacation in an Island Nation Part II</title>
                    <description>WaiOTapu Sacred Waters in RotoruaI left off with our roadtrip to the Waitomo Caves area visiting the glow worms and rafting in the dark with wetsuits inner tubes and caving helmets.  Perhaps I forgot to mention how cold the water was.  After cleaning up and dressing we headed to the Blackwater Rafting Co.'s small diner where bagels and soup were offered to the cavers gratis.  This had bee</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Rotorua/blog-584981.html</link>
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                    <title>Vacation in an Island Nation Part I</title>
                    <description> Exploring New Zealand December 2010Having recently returned to the States from working in China for a year I knew I would have only a couple of months to get my system back into the Western Hemispere before not only returning to the Eastern but also visiting a new one the Southern.  My family had long been planning an epic adventure for the holiday season a trip to New Zealand where we have</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Albany/blog-552427.html</link>
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                    <title>"Not all who wander are lost"</title>
                    <description>Reflections from homeMy father once quoted this famous line of Tolkien's when I was at a crossroads in my life unable to decide where to go next and feeling anxious about not having a clear vision of the future.  There I was at home taking classes in Chinese but not knowing what to do with them.  Sometimes our physical movements parallel our mental state rather well when I heard of the job op</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-547427.html</link>
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                    <title>ReEntry</title>
                    <description>What should I expectThe accounts all differ.  Some new American fellowexpat friends who have lived and worked overseas for many years tell me to expect to get bitten by the travel bug very soon after returning home.  To find dating more difficult than before because my perspective and lifestyle are very different from what they used to be.  To discover that I have changed in ways I don't even</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-539302.html</link>
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                    <description>A Morning of CelebrityLately I have been in the stage where I'm so caught up with getting ready to come home that I haven't been going out as much on social visits.  But last weekend I had the unique opportunity of being involved in a Question and Answer session hosted by my friend Lulu and attended by her classmates who are all studying English as part of their major.  I felt a little anxious</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-535787.html</link>
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                    <title>We're not in Kansas anymore Toto</title>
                    <description>The work retreat that really took me out of my comfort zoneIn order to promote better communication and understanding among our workers we are sending you on a roadtrip to the scenic area of Beidaihe for this year's 'Worker's Travel Retreat.'  Roughly translating this was the notification we all received in the hotel computer system two weeks ago after a couple weeks' anticipation and specula</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Qinhuangdao/blog-526654.html</link>
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                    <title>The Member of the Banquet</title>
                    <description>Why China always surprises meRight now I am reading The Member of the Wedding courtesy of the carepackage of books my Mom brought for me when she visited China.  So far the book is exceedingly odd but it's one of those books you can't put down.  The protagonist desperately wants to be part of something to be a member somewhere in some club of life to belong.  I often have that longing too</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-525374.html</link>
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                    <title>Temples Windmills and Mongolian Cowboys</title>
                    <description>China Trip 2010 Hohhot and GrasslandWe arrived in Huhehaote on the morning of the 19th having flown in from Shanghai.  First order of business relax  It was the first time since Beijing that we didn't have to hail a cab at the airport my working at a local hotel has some nice benefits including free airport pickup service for me and my parents  The airport representative a pal of mine w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-521787.html</link>
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                    <title>The "NonExpo" Trip</title>
                    <description>China Trip Part III  ShanghaiI have caught a lot of flak from my Chinese friends for not going to see Expo when I visited Shanghai in July and I have a hard time explaining to them why my parents and I opted not to see it.  I have nothing against Expo but Expo was not why my parents came to China and not why I would choose go to Shanghai.  Expo is like part of China's coming out party that n</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-520931.html</link>
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                    <title>Getting Back in the Groove</title>
                    <description>Recent Goingson and China Trip Part II  Xi'anI have been neglecting my writing according to my mother  meaning that I haven't been blogging as much lately.  That is mainly because I returned to Huhehaote Hushi after my two week vacation reinvigorated and refreshed with my fascination for ancient Chinese culture in particular classical Chinese music.  I have had the itch to get started lear</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Xi-an/blog-518257.html</link>
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                    <title>China Trip 2010 Part I</title>
                    <description>Doing China a la carteDeciding where to go and what to do when my parents came to China was tough.  We decided to visit three cities known for their historical treasures and then to visit the grassland areas close to Huhehaote.  In all Beijing Xi'an Shanghai Huhehaote and a day in the Wokuotai grassland east of the city two and half hours by car.  Mom and Dad are fearless travellers who </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-516629.html</link>
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                    <title>The Parent's Guide to Visiting a Child in China</title>
                    <description>Get ready for the culture shock have your kid do the talking...and have fun...Because so far that's what it's been.  Downright fun.  I haven't seen a family member in the flesh for more than nine months.  I have been working in my third language enduring a fiercely cold winter as well as the usual trials of being a new kid in town and a sore thumb at that and now the parents are here and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-514921.html</link>
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                    <title>The Dog Days of Summer</title>
                    <description>It's almost July and the hottest weather of the season is getting ready to hit Northern China.  Already my office is filled with periodic exclamations of so hot uttered in a somewhat mournful tone.  Here beating the heat is called   meaning spend or pass  meaning heat and midsummer.  And now is the time to see the locals beating the heat every time I walk ou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-509554.html</link>
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                    <title> In Xinhua Square</title>
                    <description>Watching the World Cup  in Xinhua SquareXinhua Square is a large park in downtown commercial Huhehaote.  I knew that people went there to rollerblade and fly kites what I didn't know was that since the World Cup started it has been a meeting place for large crowds to come watch the matches.  How I ended up there tonight was pure chance.I had gotten up today to meet a friend a stude</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-507534.html</link>
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                    <title>Recollections after some muchneeded down time</title>
                    <description>Not much going on...which is a good thingThe past two weeks brought the Table Tennis World Veterans Championship to Huhehaote.  Our hotel was one of many suddenly occupied by hundreds of foreigners from Europe South Africa and Australia.  For me this meant almost roundtheclock readiness to hear my phone ringing and pick up to the sound of the hotel operator saying Um...there's a foreign gue</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-506046.html</link>
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                    <title>More Pictures and Video from the Grassland</title>
                    <description>Pictures that show more of the vast spaces and livestock and footage of horses we saw along the road.  In the second video the girl is saying Xiao ma ma which translates to something like Little horsey </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-503574.html</link>
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                    <title>  Grassland Paradise</title>
                    <description>Zhaohe grasslandThe grasslands and small villages near Hushi are somewhat notorious for being mainly tourist attractions the road signs out there carry the famous slogan   Grassland Paradise which seems to be partially an effort to influence visitors' perceptions parts of the grassland were less than heavenly.  But I find the following dialogue illuminatingAs we sat in the yurt </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-501905.html</link>
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                    <title>The Weekend in Review</title>
                    <description>Saturday Blind Date Daoist Temple and Hushi's oldest mala restaurant.  Sunday Hiking near an old movie set eating a huge  amazing lunch and almost getting drunk on baijiu Hint NEVER let on that you can drink when this liquor is involved.  They WILL make you toast about a million times to see how far you can go.SaturdayThe day kicked off with a sort of blind date arranged by my friend Lul</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Inner-Mongolia/Hohhot/blog-499779.html</link>
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