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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 18:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>Amtrak journey to Seattle plus Habitat leaders conference</title>
                    <description>This was another highly complex multipurpose journey involving planestrainsautomobilesferries etcI left Salt Spring on April 18th and flew to Toronto on good old Air Canadaarriving about 1100 pm.I then was subjected to the Toronto taxi mafia program and spent 55 to go Mississauga where i was staying with John Roe  a fellow Habitat GV leader Most cities that are in Toronto39s weight clas</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-782126.html</link>
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                    <title>Hiking the Juan de Fuca Trail</title>
                    <description>We are in training to hike the Juan de Fuca trail and expect to start our trip on April 122013. It is about 47 KM and we will be hiking from south to north. The hike should take about 4 days and the plan is to be back home on Salt Spring on the 16th or so. The home date is quite important since I have to leave for a Habitat leaders conference in Toronto on the 18th.Both of us have been doing lots</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Sooke/blog-779181.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat trip to New Zealand via Australia</title>
                    <description>January 112013. One more week and we are off to New Zealand via Australia for 9th Habitat build. Jan and I will be spending extra time in Sydney Tasmania and New Zealand in a campervan and will also do a cycling trip plus lots of hikinghome by March 82013..January 172013Just one more sleep then off on 24 hour marathon to get from SSI to Sydney AU where it is now 46C Hopefully it will cool </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-765255.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat Trip to Vietnam via Singapore MalaysiaThailand and Laos</title>
                    <description>I am getting ready for my second Habitat trip of 2012. It is Oct 24th and so I have about 16 more days until I leave for Singapore via Hong Kong.I plan to go early via Singapore and then take the train through Malaysia Thailand and Laos before flying the last part from Ventiane to Ho Chi Min City.Team this time is 14 with 12 from Canada and 2 from Germany.Long trip to get to Asia. Left Saltspring</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/Kien-Giang/Rach-Gia/blog-751892.html</link>
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                    <title>Motorcycle 2012  first trip on Honda ST 1300  WashingtonIdahoMontanaBCAlbertaSaskatchewan and Manitoba</title>
                    <description>After being barely over my Asia trip arrived in Canada on July 2nd I did laundry and repacked to leave on July 5th for Anacortes WA via the WSDOT ferry from Sidney BC. This is my first ST 1300 trip and I was looking forward to seeing how the new bike performed. On July 5th It was up and gone at 7.00 AM to catch the Fulford ferry to Schwartz Bay at 0750. Cool day compared to SE Asia but the wea</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Winthrop/blog-731032.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat trip to Mongolia side trips to Hong KongMacauTaiwanRussia and Japan</title>
                    <description>It is Tuesday May 292012 and I am packing and getting organized to leave for Hong Kong on Friday. The plan is to visit Hong Kong and Macau for 2 days then fly to Taiwan where I have a downhill bike adventure and mountain hike booked for the Tarako Gorge. After Taiwan it will be back to Hong Kong for the flight to Mongolia on June 7th. Total team size this trip is 14 and a number of people are do</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/blog-720138.html</link>
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                    <title>Oregon Bike Trip Highway 101</title>
                    <description>Tomorrow we are off to Victoria to catch the Black Ball ferry to Port Angeles. We will then drive to Olympia  WA to get on US 5 which will take us to Newport on the coast. The next day we will start our cycling trip down the coast about 212 miles to Brookings which is just north of the California border. Lets hope the weather holds.Day one which was basically the ferry and car ride passed into </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Newport/blog-716863.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat For Humanity trip to Cambodia with side trip to Korea </title>
                    <description>Nov 162011 I am one day away from exiting Canada for my next Habitat trip. We have a full team 12 people and will all meet up in Phenom Penh on December 3d. Before the build I am stopping off in Korea and hope to go to the DMZ plus do a birding trip. I will fly to Cambodia on the 21st to do a bike trip before arriving in PP on the 3d of December.I am now in Penom Penh after arriving from Seoul</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/Central/Kampong-Chhnang/blog-665680.html</link>
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                    <title>Biking in Idaho Phase two  Trail of the Hiawatha on the Milwaukee Road</title>
                    <description>This is the long awaited sequel to the Couer d39alene bike trip. Alert readers will remember we bailed at Wallace on our May trip due to snow on the trail up on Lookout Pass. This prevented us from finishing our loop via the Trail of the Hiawatha. We decided to return after our son39s wedding and do the trail as a side trip on the way back to West Hawk Lake in Manitoba. I normally wouldn39</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Idaho/Wallace/blog-625787.html</link>
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                    <title>Coeur d'Alene bike trip</title>
                    <description>We are now sitting in the Wallace Inn which appropriately is located in Wallace Idaho. This is night two May 20th of our Bitter Root loop bike trip. We had planned to cycle from Plummer on the Coeur d39Alene Cda trail to Mullan then up over the Lookout Pass to the trail of the Hiawatha and down to Avery  returning to Ste Maries Id. We have done about 65 miles so far which was over one t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Idaho/Coeur-d-Alene/blog-613060.html</link>
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                    <title>China the easy way</title>
                    <description>Unbelievable as it may seem 3 days after returning home from Paraguay Jan and I left for China. I got home from Paraguay on Wednesday did laundry and slept in my own bed for one night  then went to Victoria for a conference returning home Friday evening. Packed up Saturday morning and caught the ferry to Vancouver so we could be on the 3.00 AM Sunday morning flight to Beijing.After the 11 hour</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Tian-anmen/blog-606679.html</link>
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                    <title>Paraguay Habitat Build plus Uruguay and Argentina </title>
                    <description>One month to goI have everything quite organizedbiggest group ever as a leader. I am leaving early on March 15th for Buenos Aires and UruguayThis is my first trip to South Americaplan is to leave Vancouver on March 14th then fly out on the 15tharriving in Buenos Aires on March 16th. I will meet up with 2 other HFH participants in Buenos Aires. We then plan to take the ferry to Colonia in U</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/Asunci-n/Bella-Vista-/blog-566722.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat for Humanity Poland plus BelarusRussia Baltics </title>
                    <description>I am starting to get organized to finish planning my trip to Poland.One of the first things I had to do was return to Manitoba and get my motorcycle and camper trailer back to Salt Spring. I left West Hawk Lake on August 19th and arrived back on Salt Spring on Monday August 23d. This was a costly journey as I had to replace the alternator on the bike as it failed just out of Winnipeg on the first </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Silesia/Gliwice/blog-522976.html</link>
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                    <title>Motorcycling on a Harley Davidson with a beagle</title>
                    <description>This is our second trip of 2010 and is a local adventure which we normally wouldn't put on the blog. However this one was unique as it was the first time we were able to take the the dog on a motorcycle trip. This was actually a ferry trip interrupted by some motorcycling. We had 6 ferry rides to get all the way around the circuit. Including camp fees ferry tickets and gas the whole 4 days cost </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Sunshine-Coast/blog-495050.html</link>
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                    <title>Africa 2010 South AfricaNamibiaZimbabweZambiaSwaziland and Lesotho Zambezi canoe trip.Garden Route Hiking plus the Lion walk</title>
                    <description>We have just returned from frigid Manitoba having spent Christmas at West Hawk LakeBRRRR.We are now into full packingplanning mode for our trip to Africawe will leave on the 15th and expect to visit South Africa Namibia.ZimbabweZambia and Swaziland. We may also be able to visit Botswana. We have 2 organized tours with one being a 4 day canoe trip on the Zambezi and the other a 4 day hike on </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zimbabwe/Bulawayo/blog-464473.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat for Humanity Armenia plus TurkeyGreece and Georgia</title>
                    <description>I am one week away from leaving on my next Habitat for Humanity trip my first as a leader I will leave Canada on October 7th and fly to London on the usual direct flight from Vancouver to London. I will overnight there then fly to Thessaloniki in Greece on Easyjet. After a day or so there I hope to catch a train to Istanbul and spend 2 days there. I will then take the famous Dogu Express across</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-440622.html</link>
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                    <title>Iceland Bike trip</title>
                    <description>We have just returned from a cycling trip to Iceland via Denmark and the Faroe Islands. We left Winnipeg on June 20th and flew to Copenhagan via Reykavik. Bikes came off the the plane in Copenhagan with some issuesmine was out of the box but luckily all the pieces were there. As it turned out Jan's bike suffered some damage as the rear brake and derailer were out of adjustment. Never underestimat</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/North/Seydisfjordur/blog-418192.html</link>
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                    <title>West Coast Trail</title>
                    <description>We have just completed the West Coast Trail from Bamfield to Port Renfrew. We started by spoting a car in Port Renfrew prior to the hike. Our hiking trip then started on May 17th when we picked up our son Ryan and his partner Michelle at the Long Harbour ferry on Salt Spring. We then drove off the other side of SSI and made our way over some dusty and bumpy logging roads arriving in Bamfield at 6</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Pacific-Rim-National-Park-Reserve/blog-402132.html</link>
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                    <title>Yucatan</title>
                    <description>We are just getting ready for our next travel adventure which will take us to Cancun Mexico via AtlantaGA on Delta from Vancouver. We then will stay at Playa del Carmen for 4 nights before catching the busnonchicken to Chetumal for an overnight. Next day we catch another bus to Belize City and will stay on Caye Caulker for 3 days. Next stop will be Flores and Tikal  We are going to do a bird</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Belize-Barrier-Reef/Caye-Caulker/blog-367871.html</link>
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                    <title>Habitat for Humanity trip to Jordan</title>
                    <description>I am gearing up for my next Habitat for Humanity trip to Jordanwill leave Canada on Oct 27th and will visit Israel first. The HH build starts in Jordan Hakaba on Nov 1st and will last until the 10th. Hope to update as I go. Jan is tired of long plane rides so is sitting this one outI flew from SSI to Winnipeg on Oct 19ththen down to lake to stay for a few days.Oct 2608 came in from West Hawk</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Jordan/East/blog-338019.html</link>
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