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                    <title>Beautiful Mackinac Island</title>
                    <description>UPPER PENISULA MICHIGAN  A short ferry ride from the mainland of the UP of Michigan lies an island lost in time. Imagine a place where the sole economy is based on fudge shops restaurants hotels and horsedrawn carriage rides. The season is short but the place is thriving. Formerly the exclusive hideaway of the very wealthy in the late 180039s this island is cute clean and oh so ritzy. Ele</description>
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                    <title>Northwoods</title>
                    <description>LAKE COUNTRY UPPER WISCONSIN We have made two relaxing stops in Wisconsin to visit family and friends. First we visited the lovely community of Middleton a suburb of Madison Wisconsin. There we spent the night with my cousin Greg his wife Rhonda and their three wonderful kids Cole Shelby and Derrick. It was the complete upper midwest happy family sampler package. We enjoyed the sports doubleh</description>
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                    <title>Boomtown USA</title>
                    <description>ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER  Yesterday we were in the valley town of Missoula Montana. We shared a lovely meal at an exotic restaurant called The Silk Road with Jane Richards the sister of my good friend Bill Johnson. She has lived in that college town for a long time and knows all the good places The town is completely surrounded by white capped mountains but has a milder climate due to the la</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/North-Dakota/Jamestown/blog-723413.html</link>
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                    <title>More Than Potatoes</title>
                    <description>Coeur d39Alene Lake Idaho  We are eschonced in the small lakefront town of Harrison Idaho. The drive along the shores of Coeur d39Alene Lake has been beautiful. This lake has been compared to Lake Tahoe and for good reason. Both are surrounded by dense forests of pine spruce and fir and they look very similar in all aspects. Coeur d39Alene lacks the surrounding snow capped peaks but i</description>
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                    <title>Across the Cascades</title>
                    <description>BACKCOUNTRY WASHINGTON STATE After getting off the cruise ship in Vancouver we headed straight south for the border. The line to enter into the US was very long. I guess on Saturdays everybody in Canada wants to go shopping down in the USA because every car in the line of probably two hundred cars had Canadian tags except maybe five. The Customs Officer spent a lot of time asking us why we are ca</description>
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                    <title>Wild Alaska</title>
                    <description>Alaska has been a wild wonderful ride. The license plates up here say The Last Frontier. I don39t think it is the last one but it is definitely a frontier. It feels like it has just been settled a few years ago. The people are an eclectic mix of rugged outdoorsmen adventurers and escapists from the lower forty eight. I also love how integrated the native people are in Alaska. In the lower 4</description>
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                    <title>Gold Fever</title>
                    <description>INTERIOR ALASKA After the Yukon Gold Rush the quest for gold moved into the interior of this huge state. It is so large that if you cut it in half each piece would still be larger than Texas. We started our tour of the interior in Alaska39s second largest city Fairbanks. At first blush it looks much like any other suburban city in the lower forty eight. You see a conglomeration of fast food </description>
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                    <title>Inside Passage</title>
                    <description>PORT OF WHITTIER ALASKA The clear weather held as far north as Glacier Bay. We had wonderful stops in Juneau and Skagway with clear skies and plenty of sun.It is a little hard to believe that the capital city of Alaska Juneau doesn39t even have road access. There are of course roads about the town but no highway that connects the city to any other areas of the state. The only way to get t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Alaska/Anchorage/blog-719338.html</link>
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                    <title>Alaska's First City</title>
                    <description>INSIDE PASSAGE ALASKA As you cruise north from Vancouver the landscape gives way to miles and miles of wilderness. Vancouver is a very densely populated city but British Columbia as a whole is not. Except for the occasional tugboat pulling a raft of logs or a Ferry transporting passengers and their vehicles the horizon before us is clear. Clear clean and beautiful. Snowcapped peaks fringe the </description>
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                    <title>Puget Sound By Ferry</title>
                    <description>PUGET SOUND WASHINGTON STATE So many islands so little time. We spent several glorious days crisscrossing the Puget Sound. Glorious not only because of the beautiful scenery but also because we had bright clear and sunny weather. All of the locals told us that this was unusual weather and not the norm. So all around us everyone was revelling in the warmth. From Port Orchard we gazed acros</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Whidbey-Island/blog-717444.html</link>
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                    <title>Timber Barons Pirates and Tsunamis</title>
                    <description>We saw a multitude of different sights as we worked our way up the Oregon Coast. We all know what a bountiful bonanza Oregon was for the Early Settlers. We saw grand evidence of that in one of the most picturesque mansions I have ever seen. Perched atop a scenic knoll in the middle of a coastal town was the former home of one of the first Timber Barons and it was really something to behold. Comple</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Coos-Bay/blog-716424.html</link>
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                    <title>Oregon Coast</title>
                    <description>SCENIC PACIFIC COAST BYWAY The rugged and rocky California Coast was both dramatic and bold. We expected the same from the Oregon Coast as we headed north on HWY 101. What we experienced was something we had not anticipated. The trees changed from Redwoods to Cedar the land leveled out some and then THE DUNES  Miles and miles of huge Sand Dunes.  They were piled against the Coast and the the lo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Yachats/blog-716420.html</link>
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                    <title>California Redwoods</title>
                    <description>KLAMATH RIVER CA  REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK They are a wonder and it is great to see that they have not all been cut down. Although some have really been modified. How can a tree survive that much cutting out We have been inside one huge Redwood that was burned out in 1914 and has a room with a natural chimmey going all the way out the top. Another one we drove thru and the tree is alive and seems t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Redwood-National-Park/blog-716405.html</link>
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                    <title>Castle of Love</title>
                    <description>NAPA VALLEY WINE COUNTRY   We spent a wonderful day yesterday touring the Napa Valley tasting wine and soaking in the sights. The tremedous acreage of grapes growing and number of different Vineyards was a real treat to see. Our tour started in the trendy town of Napa itself. We ate a really nice woodfired pizza and sipped wine at the completely redone Napa Mill Complex. Formerly a working Mill </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Napa-Valley/blog-716071.html</link>
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                    <title>Old Sacramento</title>
                    <description>SACRAMENTO RIVER VALLEY CALIFORNIA  Down along the banks of the Sacramento River were some of the largest Birch Trees I have ever seen. We spent an exciting day exploring the vineyards wineries and farm communities that stretch along the river as it winds it39s way toward San Francisco. We did a wine tasting at an old coverted Sugar Mill that now houses eight family owned wineries. Not as wel</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Sacramento/blog-714891.html</link>
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                    <title>Gold in Them There Hills</title>
                    <description>EL DORADO HILLS CA.  My nephew Joe Lyons and I spent 5 months together on a treasure hunting expedition in the Bahamas back in the 9039s. We never found any gold back then but he has found his personal El Dorado here in the hills east of Sacramento. The community where he lives is very close to where it all began for the Great California Gold Rush. Sutter39s Mill where gold was discover</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/El-Dorado-Hills/blog-714867.html</link>
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                    <title>Jewel of the West</title>
                    <description>LAKE TAHOE CALIFORNIA SIDEI can see why Ben Cartwright chose this area for his huge ranch The Ponderosa of Hollywood fame. What a gorgeous high alpine Lake. Ringed by snowcapped mountains and filled with clear blue water it is a picture perfect scene. Our stay was short but sweet. We spent the night at one of those cute little 195039s style Motels that I love where you pull your car right </description>
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                    <title>Nevada Desert</title>
                    <description>Our night in Las Vegas was highlighted by attending The Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian Hotel. It was presented in the special 40 million dollar theater built just for the show and made to look like the Paris Opera House. Fantastic Spectacular all of these adjectives come up short. We sat right down front in the Golden Circle seats and when the massive Chandelier comes down it was right </description>
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                    <title>Still Grand</title>
                    <description>We spent the night at the Maswik Lodge on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The sunset over the canyon was magnificent and so much different than I remember as a child. The lodge was very comfy and Jane really liked how Ecofriendly the whole Grand Canyon Village was. All of the lodges and restaurants were completely set up to reuse recycle and reclaim everything from water to trash. Fresh Grand</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Grand-Canyon-National-Park/blog-713956.html</link>
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                    <title>Red Hills of Sedona</title>
                    <description>The transitition from the desert valley of Phoenix and Scottsdale to the mountains of Sedona is a beautiful and relaxing drive. Jane and I relished the cool mountain air. My parents love the dry desert heat and it is obvious from the number of people that live in the Phoenix area that many people love that climate. After spending summers in the mountains of North Carolina we are hooked on the cri</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Sedona/blog-713727.html</link>
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