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                    <title>Amtrak Cross Country 2008</title>
                    <description>Hi friends and familyIt has been a long time since we communicated via this tool. In 2006 my then 16 year old daughter Lisa and I drove crosscountry from San Mateo to Philadelphia in 16 days and documented our trip on travelblog.  It was a great experience for both of us. As the 2008 Christmas holidays approached I thought it was important that our son Mike joined the rest of us in visiting Pe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-362258.html</link>
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                    <title>Tuesday 1223 Chicago to Pittsburgh to Philadelphia </title>
                    <description>Tuesday 1223Planned Itinerary Chicago to Washington D.C. to PhiladelphiaActual Itinerary   Chicago to Pittsburgh to Harrisburg to Philly Clue to improvised travel   ...and leave the driving to us.Well these recliners certainly arent comfortable for sleeping. Sure glad we were able to get the sleepers from San Francisco. I did get about 5 hours in fits and starts while Lisa got a lot le</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/blog-362777.html</link>
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                    <title>Monday 1222 just past Denver to Chicago</title>
                    <description>I woke up at my usual time around 630AM just in a new time zone an hour later. We were about 30 minutes west of Lincoln Nebraska our next stop. I quick went outside when we stopped to take a picture of basically nothing which describes the scenery most of the day. There are a few inches of snow on the ground in some places instead of a few feet of corn. I had breakfast with some passengers tha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-362284.html</link>
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                    <title>Sunday 1221 almost Salt Lake City to just past Denver</title>
                    <description>It was a restless first night for all with the train motion tight quarters and unfamiliar bedding. Dad was up first beating the sunrise. He finished yesterdays blog in the observation car waiting for outside light. The train was moving pretty good across the flats about half an hour outside Salt Lake City when dawn finally arrived. He did not expect to see the kids for a long tim</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/blog-362272.html</link>
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                    <title>Saturday 122008 Emeryville to almost Salt Lake City</title>
                    <description>After a nice early Christmas the night before Mom Dad and Lisa headed off to Emeryville loaded down with bags of food presents and clean clothes.  The train left on time  after all this was the Amtrak California Zephyrs starting point. Mike would be getting on in Davis a few stops north. He was able to walk to the train station from his house.The plan was for Dad who had Mike's ticket be</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-362261.html</link>
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                    <title>Favorites</title>
                    <description>As Lisa and I did after Leg 1 John and I summarized favorites etc. for the last leg of this crosscountry roundtrip marathon.Top tier attractions John Dealey Plaza Great music scene in Nashville Memphis  Austin Clinton Library LBJ Ranch Stax  Sun Records in Memphis The Alamo Acoma Mesa Atomic Testing MuseumVince Dealey Plaza Acoma Mesa Congress Avenue Bridge</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Mateo/blog-81818.html</link>
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                    <title>HOME</title>
                    <description>John and I had breakfast took care of some little things around the Tahoe house and hit the road about 915AM reveling in our success. After dropping John off in Sacramento I headed for home. Somewhere around 230PM I pulled in the driveway feeling great. The odometer read 11321. At the start of this trip way back on July 3 it was at 1957 meaning the RAV4 and I logged  9364 miles togeth</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Mateo/blog-81157.html</link>
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                    <title>Pining for Tahoe</title>
                    <description>We decided we had one priority stop today as an antidote to that extravagant monument to excess that was Las Vegas. We would take the route into California that would enable us to visit the ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest on the way to Big Pine and Bishop. CA.  This forest which is well off the beaten path especially coming from the Nevada side is the home of the oldest trees in the world. Some</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Lake-Tahoe/blog-81089.html</link>
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                    <title>Viva Las Vegas</title>
                    <description>This may be  a short entry because as you know What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.We diverted from the interstate at Seligman to drive a 40 mile loop of Historic Route 66. We had been led to believe there was some new activity on portions of this route such as bringing in old historic neon signs and renovating some of the establishments along the way. We didn't see any evidence of this.  T</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-81085.html</link>
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                    <title>Mesas Deserts Trees Rocks Stars and Craters</title>
                    <description>Our first stop today was at Acoma the oldest continually occupied community in North America. It is the home of a clan of Pueblo Indians that have lived her since around 1100AD. It is a fascinating place. Our guide told us how the Spanish came here followed by the Franciscans who tried to force the native americans to give up their beliefs in favor of the one true Catholic religion. The blendi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Flagstaff/blog-80494.html</link>
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                    <title> Roswell Aliens and Billy the Kid</title>
                    <description>First stop the world famous UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. It was OK but I was hoping for more. It is pretty hard though to put a museum together without any physical artifacts. Everything from the 1947 crash spaceship parts and aliens was recovered by the government by various means and that leaves the museum without too much to show. The most interesting part was reading the si</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-80261.html</link>
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                    <title>So long Texas Hello New Mexico</title>
                    <description>We made two last stops in Texas. The first was Fort Stockton. This fort had no walls because you could see the dust from anybody coming from miles away. It was an outpost for one of the buffalo soldier regiments. We learned in several places that this name was given to the black army soldiers by the native Americans because their dark curly hair reminded them of the buffalo. This was a compliment </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Roswell/blog-80258.html</link>
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                    <title>Remember the Alamo</title>
                    <description>We hit the Texas History Museum in Austin this morning to make sure we had all the context we needed for the Alamo in San Antonio and West Texas beyond. It was very well done making us wish for a comparable quality California history museum in our state capital. By noon we were on our way to San Antonio arriving at the Alamo around 130.We had been cautioned that the Alamo was small. I guess t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/San-Antonio/blog-79592.html</link>
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                    <title>Now batting for Austin LBJ. On deck  Live music</title>
                    <description>After a workout and a breakfast that more than compensated for it calorically we headed on foot for the UT Texas campus and the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum. It was just past the football stadium home of the reigning national champion Longhorns. The building was covered in scaffolding but was open to visitors. As we learned inside this was the first of the libraries on a college campus </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Austin/blog-79441.html</link>
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                    <title>From The 6th Floor to Austin City Limits</title>
                    <description>We arrived in Dallas from Texarcana before 1000AM. Our first priority was Dealey Plaza and all things Kennedy Assasination. The first stop was The 6th Floor Museum which is on the 6th floor of what was then the Texas Book Depository from which Oswald fired the shot that killed the president unless you are an Oliver Stone fan or a member of one of the other many conspiracyother shooter f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Dallas/blog-79440.html</link>
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                    <title>Suspicious Minds Elvis Presley and Bill Clinton</title>
                    <description>Isn't there something else important and famous to see that relates to music and Memphis you say Why yes you're right  some guy named Elvis lived here and his house is open for tours. We checked out Graceland this morning as the culmination of our study of music and Memphis. John had been here before five years ago so I offered to let him drop me off while he explored other parts of the city</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arkansas/blog-78892.html</link>
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                    <title>Long distance information give me Memphis Tennessee</title>
                    <description>Day of 1 of Leg 3 I dropped Jackie off at the airport at 645 got my workout in got my mojo workin' as they say down here and was at the door of the Country Music Hall of Fame when it opened at 900AM. I had to slip this in even if for just an hour before John and I left for Memphis. It brought back a lot of memories from my childhood days listening to country music. One of my favorite arti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Memphis/blog-78652.html</link>
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                    <title>Nashville and the YMCA</title>
                    <description>This was a full day of YMCA leadership and program sessions for me while Jackie and John toured Nashville.A travelblog is not the place to talk a lot about the Y so I'll save the details for a special email to a selected distribution list. The one thing I will say is that there is an exciting new partnership between the CDC Center for Disease Control and the YMCA called Pioneering Healthy Commu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Nashville/blog-78379.html</link>
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                    <title>Music City USA</title>
                    <description>It is a YMCA Assembly Day. The general program this morning featured Cokie Roberts wellknown reporterjournalistauthor and strong YMCA advocate.  She very effectively drove home points about the importance of volunteerism civic engagement and the power of advocacy for individuals and nonprofit organizations. While the business world has made a lot of progress in becoming family friendlier i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Nashville/blog-78079.html</link>
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                    <title>Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo</title>
                    <description>Dateline Chattanooga. This Bed and Breakfast is a little different than most. There are three beautiuful old houses converted to inns in the Bluff Art District overlooking the  river. The guests enjoy breakfast at a nice restaurant in the middle of the inns and surrounded by some wonderful art galleries museums and shops. This is a great location for exploring the entire city which is even b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Chattanooga/blog-77904.html</link>
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