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			<![CDATA[Welcome, 歡迎, Bienvenido, Saúdo, ようこそ! to the travel blog of my year long adventure around the world. My friend, Ian Cotton, and I decided to make this happen after spending a little over a month working in the slums of a Brazilian city and tackling the Amazon. The trip has been in the planning 
stages for a year and a half, and we are to set off on December 30, 2007. It is sure to be an adventure with great marvels as well as some hardships, but we hope to give everyone that follows us on this site a different glimpse into the world and a better perspective why it is the way it is. It's a small world after all! Also check out Ian's offexploing.com/iancotton
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			<title><![CDATA[Fort Walton Beach, Florida]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[As we took off from Sydney in our Boeing 747, I looked back at Australia knowing that the year of traveling was over. It was really sad and a bit overwhelming thinking that when I touched back down in...]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sydney, New South Wales]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Arriving in Sydney from China was a welcome shock back into the heat and sunshine. Before we arrived there, we emailed our friends all through Australia that we had met previously on other parts of th...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beijing, China]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[After another long overnight train ride, we arrived in Beijing, the capital of China. While being a little more prepared this time, we stepped out again into the cold, stood freezing, and looked up at...]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Xian, China]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Our eighteen hour train journey in the normal chair class brought us to Xian in a semi-delusional state. We stepped out of the train and into a climate that we had barely felt for our ten months abroa...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lhasa, China]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Let's just say... be on time if you are taking a train in China! It was definitely my fault for playing around on the internet a little too long, but we missed our 48 hour train to Tibet by 30 seconds...]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Guilin, China]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[As we entered China, I expected, as I believe nearly everyone does, to see communism in its most stereo-typical form... dark and cloudy days with big dull concrete block structures, police constantly...]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:03:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong, Hong Kong]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[With Southeast Asia behind us, we moved on to the &quot;western&quot; gateways to the rising &quot;superpower&quot; of the Far East, Hong Kong and Macau, China. Hong Kong seemed freakishly modern, and...]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:58:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Saigon, Vietnam]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[With all the fun of Laos behind us, we moved on to Vietnam. Vietnam has mixed history with our nation and several other Western nations, and I came here wondering whether my expectations of a nation s...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:14:56 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Huay Xai, Laos]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[After my bus and boat adventure through Laos, I was ready for the jungle, zip-lines (strapping yourself to a wire a sliding along the wire from one point to another), and gibbons (a type of monkey) th...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Luang Prabang, Laos]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Putting our special forces skills behind us, we moved on down the mighty Mekong River on a two day boat cruise with the locals passing small mountains covered in dense jungle where hill tribe people s...]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:58:01 +0100</pubDate>
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