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                    <title>St. Brendan  Patron Saint of Sailors and Travelers</title>
                    <description>Well I have a feeling if you either know me or have read several of my blogs that you realize I am no Saint however I do love that my namesake is the patron saint of travelers. No wonder it is in my blood. Todays blog is covering Lima and wrapping up my trip to Peru. I am home again looking back on one heck of a great trip so thought I would wrap up Peru 2013. As with all things there are </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/Lima/blog-777572.html</link>
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                    <title>Squeezing the Last Bits of Fun out of this Vacation</title>
                    <description>The end is coming. I can smell it. I can feel the hustle and bustle of the Lima airport stalking me from 160 miles away. I walk quickly looking over my shoulder to make sure it can39t touch me and realize the only sure way to beat it back is by going out and having copious amounts of fun to spite it. So that becomes the plan for Ica.My Cruz del Sur bus took longer than I thought. I have no i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Ica/blog-776842.html</link>
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                    <title>Nazca Part II Aqueducts Dune Buggies and Sand Boarding</title>
                    <description>I still wasn39t having any luck finding a tour to the aqueducts or for the sand dunes. As I sat doing my research and combing through my guide books the phone rang. The tour desk here at the hotel had 4 people confirmed for the dune buggy ride out to the sand dunes and would I like to go Heck yeah I would All I had to do was show up in the lobby at 230 with my sunglasses hat sun screen an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Nazca/Nazca/blog-776500.html</link>
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                    <title>Nazca Lines Mummies and Desert</title>
                    <description>The overnight bus ride from Arequipa to Nazca was not nearly as bad as I had anticipated. The seats were comfortable and reclined. The bad part is that when the person in front of me reclined all the way back it crunched my knees so much that I couldn39t sit with my knees forward. I used positions such as hanging over the armrest into the aisle or propping my foot on the back of his armrest. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Nazca/blog-776302.html</link>
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                    <title>Arequipa Peru's White City</title>
                    <description>My trip to the Colca Canyon and Cruz del Condor was so large that I wanted to write about the city of Arequipa in a separate blog. This actually includes the final day in Puno as well as the time in spent in the White City. had done some research and found an interesting day trip to do before I had to leave at 230. Not far from Puno is Sillustani preIncan ruins on a hill overlooking Lake Umayo.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Arequipa/blog-776234.html</link>
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                    <title>Colca Canyon  The Day of the Condor Cuy and Chicha</title>
                    <description>I am hoping that the blog title will have captured your interest because this was an absolutely amazing 2 day tour. For all of the internal freak outs I have had on this trip my overnight trip to the Colca Canyon was absolutely postcard perfect. Pick up was at 730 yesterday morning. When the guide told me that it was a small group I didnt expect that it would be only 1 other person on the t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Arequipa/Colca-Canyon/blog-775865.html</link>
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                    <title>Lake Titicaca   As Much Fun to Say as it is to See</title>
                    <description>Although this blog is centered around Lake Titicaca I have to back up a bit and ease into it. I flew from Cusco to Juliaca yesterday and had an hour taxi ride to Puno where I am staying. The flight was nondescript but the views from the window were far from it. We flew over snow covered mountains and once we reached our final descent and I had to put my camera away there were the most incredib</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Puno/Lake-Titicaca-/blog-775345.html</link>
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                    <title>Holy Fricken H  aka Wayna Picchu and Machu Picchu</title>
                    <description>Today started at 430 AM. My hike up Wayna Picchu also spelled Huayna Picchu was to start between 7 and 8 AM. They allow 200 people up in that time slot and 200 people up in another slot. I was determined to get up there before the rain. I had a quick breakfast in the hotel and was at the bus stop by 520. Heck I was so early that I was on the 3rd bus up the hill. As we ascended the hill the s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Machu-Picchu/blog-775014.html</link>
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                    <title>Aguas Calientes  Kind of Ironic Since it Was Pouring and the Agua was Rather Cold</title>
                    <description>Yesterday was a day of travel. I met my tour organizer at 645 to head to the train station. Due to rains and landslides the trains are unable to run for a good portion of the trip so we were bussed over an hour to our train. Kind of makes me glad I didn39t pop for the uber expensive Hiram Bingham train. Ok so I am actually really glad I did not. On my tour yesterday someone who had just vis</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Aguas-Calientes/blog-774879.html</link>
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                    <title>Sushine in the Sacred Valley</title>
                    <description>Thankfully I woke up feeling so much better today. I always plan an extra day in my landing city for the most undesirable Wallow Brendan where I feel crappy wallow in self pity and second guess my desire to travel. By the next day he has been beaten into submission by one of my other selves and off we all go to have the most wonderful time. That was how this trip started. I had a nice breakfast</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Sacred-Valley/blog-774678.html</link>
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                    <title>Dazed and Confused in Cusco</title>
                    <description>No the title has nothing to do with a movie from the early 90s nor does it have anything to do with illegal substances or even some of the legal ones I have been known to enjoy. No today it is about lack of sleep layovers and altitude. In my mind I had visions of a slow night at work the night before I left. I would slip out go home and quietly unwind before the alarm went off at 430 AM</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/Cusco/blog-774459.html</link>
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                    <title>Country Bumpkin in the Big City or Future World Traveler in the Making</title>
                    <description>This is another blog that is a bit different. It has been 30 years since I took my first big trip to another country so I pulled out my photo album to take a look. I was a Junior in high school when the foreign language classes from all of the county schools planned a trip to Montreal Canada. I was studying French and pictured myself so very worldly. True the longings for travel and far away </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-762643.html</link>
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                    <title>Who Says You Can't Go Home Again</title>
                    <description>When I was growing up on my parent39s farm I had one goal in life. Actually I don39t remember the exact wording but in my senior profile for the school newsletter type thing my goal was Get a good paying job and leave this town. Even back then I knew I wanted a faster paced life. Of course since I was 18 I knew everything told it like it was and really wasn39t concerned with how i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Ohio/Findlay/blog-749278.html</link>
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                    <title>Wrapping Up  Buenos Aires</title>
                    <description>Now that I am home and rested a bit I wanted to go back and wrap up my time in Buenos Aires. As I wrote in my previous blog I had a bit of a melt down at being back in the crowded city. It was oppressively hot and humid when I arrived in BA. My hotel was in San Telmo area an old section of the city with a lot of history. Unfortunately they did not have an adapter for my electrical devices. The</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Buenos-Aires/Buenos-Aires/blog-700365.html</link>
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                    <title>Minor Melt Down</title>
                    <description>Wow I didn39t realize how much I was loving the Patagonia area until I came back to the city. I have been in Buenos Aires for a couple of days and am really dragging my feet about doing anything including writing a blog. Nothing seems interesting enough to share so I haven39t. But I do want to keep you up on what is going on so here we go. Today I had planned a trip to Colonia del Sacra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Uruguay/West/Colonia-del-Sacramento/blog-699271.html</link>
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                    <title>Walking on Penguin Island.  Can It Possibly Be Better</title>
                    <description>Today was an early morning. I was up so early that I even had time for coffee and a quick breakfast at the hotel before my taxi arrived to take me down to the docks. What an absolutely amazing trip this was today. Only 80 people per day are allowed on the Penguin Island or Rookery and in groups of 20 at a time. We drove in a mini bus for about an hour. Along the way we stopped to take some pictu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-697995.html</link>
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                    <title>Snow in Patagonia</title>
                    <description>Today was a bit of a surprise. I knew it was raining out when I woke up but I didn39t realize how ugly the weather was. My boat trip was cancelled due to the weather which meant I had only a few minutes to make the decision to take a taxi to the Train to the End of the World. I made it on time but was shocked that it was snowing. In the first couple pictures you can see snow on my coat and </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-697802.html</link>
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                    <title>My 4 Year TB Birthday from the End of the World</title>
                    <description>Today marks my 4 year birthday of being a Travel Blogger. It wasnt planned but I am celebrating it from Ushuaia the End of the world aka Southernmost City of the World. Now please bear with me because although this incredible hotel does have WIFI it is not strong enough for me to use so I will try to do my best on a hotel computer.  Please ignore any typos or oddities.  I was looking back</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Tierra-del-Fuego/Ushuaia/blog-697504.html</link>
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                    <title>Glaciers Icebergs and a Boat</title>
                    <description>Since my ankle was still very sore today I wanted to take it easy and rest it for a day or two. I had given thought to a boat tour on the Lake to some other glaciers so I went ahead and did it today. It was a nice sized catamaran and full of people. We first went to the Spegazzini Glacier. The day was sunny and beautiful for the most part. The clouds come and go around the mountains causing it </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-697162.html</link>
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                    <title>Big Ice aka Phenomenal Day on Perito Moreno Glacier</title>
                    <description>Oh my heck This trip just gets better each day. Today was the Big Ice hike on the Perito Moreno Glacier. This is the reason that I am down here in Patagonia. When I start to plan my trips I pick up tour guide books and come up with very broad strokes of where I want to go and what I would like to see. From there I purchase air tickets in and out. That gives a good base of what I can do and then</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Argentina/Santa-Cruz/Los-Glaciares-National-Park-/blog-696843.html</link>
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