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                    <title>Las Vegas the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon</title>
                    <description>Dawn wanted to take the kids on a big trip before Dimitri goes off to college and spring break was the perfect time to do that. She had in mind the Grand Canyon so I investigated various itineraries and it turns out that flying in to Las Vegas renting a car and then driving to the Grand Canyon with a stop at Hoover Dam made the most sense from both a financial and quality of experience standpoin</description>
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                    <title>A Golden Time in Golden Colorado</title>
                    <description>Golden ColoradoMy son was planning on staying at school instead of coming home for spring break so I decided I wanted to go visit him and see his school The Colorado School of Mines for the first time. I booked a package trip on Expedia on flying on American Airlines staying at the AmericInn ltspangt hotel and renting a car from Budget.ltspangt As has been the case for us recently Amer</description>
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                    <title>Maui Wowie</title>
                    <description>Maui WowieI surprised Dawn with a trip to Maui for her 50th birthday.ltspangtltspangtltspangtltspangtltspangtltspangt We had talked about going for a long time and so this was a great opportunity.ltspangtWe flew American out of Houston and had to change planes in Dallas and Los Angeles so it was an exhausting trip to get there. We arrived at 800pm at night so it was d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Hawaii/Maui/blog-685681.html</link>
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                    <title>Orange County August 1721 2011</title>
                    <description>Orange County August 1721 2011My brother was getting married in Orange County so we decided to make it a minivacation.  I had enough mileage for the tickets and Dawn has a cousin in Los Alamitos who offered to have us stay there so it promised to be an nice and inexpensive trip.The flights turned out to be nonstop but they were on American Eagle not American like I thought.  We flew out of H</description>
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                    <title>OUR BIG FAT GREEK VACATION</title>
                    <description>OUR BIG FAT GREEK VACATIONIt had come time for Dawns kids to come home from staying with their father in Greece for the summer.  After putting it off last summer we committed to going to Greece to pick them up this time.The journey started with booking our flight.  We werent going to need a hotel since Dawn has friends and family there.  We stopped by the travel agent only to learn that you</description>
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                    <title>BuffaloNiagara FallsRochester</title>
                    <description>BUFFALO  NIAGARA FALLS  ROCHESTERI had missed my 30th high school reunion due to my flight to Buffalo being cancelled as hurricane Rita approached the Houston area.  So when the schools 50th Jubilee came up this year to coincide with my 35th reunion I couldnt pass it up.  I had wanted to go to a reunion for years.  I hadnt kept up with anyone from high school since I moved from Buffalo </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/Buffalo/blog-499083.html</link>
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                    <title>New Year's in Natchitoches</title>
                    <description>Each New Years Eve we try to do something special.  Dawn had recently been to Natchitoches Louisiana pronounced Nakatish on a business trip and raved about how beautiful it was.  It was the site of the film Steel Magnolias.  If you saw that film you saw a good amount of the local scenery.  The Cane River runs through the middle of the town.  There is a nice little park along the shorel</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/Natchitoches/blog-464454.html</link>
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                    <title>Cruisin in Santa Cruz</title>
                    <description>Cruisin' In Santa CruzMy 27 year old niece Erika was getting married I Santa Cruz so I planned a weekend trip to attend.  I wanted Dawn to go with me so she could meet some of the family she hasnt met yet as well.  I had just spent a week in San Jose with a short side trip to Santa Cruz three months earlier so I knew the area fairly well already.  I hadnt gotten to see Santa Cruz beach or </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Santa-Cruz/blog-440855.html</link>
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                    <title>San Francisco Treat</title>
                    <description>San Francisco TreatMy brother who lives northeast of San Francisco in Benecia thought it would be a good idea to have my mother and I come visit his family during the Christmas holidays.  It sounded like a good idea so I started looking at package deals online.  I wanted Dawn to go with me so that meant that we would drive to Dallas to pick up my mother and fly from there to San Francisco.I loo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-360076.html</link>
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                    <title>Das Mueller Haus</title>
                    <description>Das Mueller HausOur New Years Adventure in Fredericksburg TexasI cant recall how Dawn got the idea to spend New Years Eve 2007 in a rental house in Fredericksburg but it was a great idea.  Its a quaint German town in the central Texas hill country.  Its Main Street has numerous touristy shops and restaurants and museums.  Nearby are Enchanted Rock and Pedernales Falls which are bo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Fredericksburg/blog-343399.html</link>
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                    <title>New York In a New York Minute</title>
                    <description>New York In a New York MinuteDawn had to go to New York to pick up her kids who were returning from Greece after staying with their father for the summer.  She decided to make a little trip out of it and made reservations for two days before they arrived to spend a little time sightseeing and asked if I wanted to go as well.  I thought What could we do in just two days  But we always manag</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-315004.html</link>
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                    <title>Rio Baby  Spectacular Travel on the Cheap</title>
                    <description> Rio BabySpectacular Travel on the CheapWhere to goIve had the travel bug for several years now.  Earlier this year I felt the need to take a trip.  I had enough mileage for a free domestic plane ticket so that meant we only had to buy one.  Then a credit card deal came in the mail for 25000 free miles on American Airlines if you signed up for a Citi credit card.  Normally I only get a cre</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Rio-de-Janeiro/blog-288620.html</link>
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