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			<![CDATA[I've been challenged to blog my tour round the central US States. The success of ths blog depends not only on regular fast internet connection, but on my own ability and desire to write something that will interest readers.
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			<title><![CDATA[Chicago, Illinois]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[I wrote this section at O'Hare waiting for my flight, although I am now home.

As I was dropped off a small cavalcade of Harleys came chugging into the drop off zone, accompanying a car. So I whipped...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:28:16 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Homeward bound…

I had an email from the Staples Center to say that I hadn't been successful in the draw for MJ Memorial Tickets, so next stop was O'Hare, via Milwaukee for a bit of sightseeing.

Al...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:21:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rock Island, Illinois]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[3 - 5 July Back to Illinois

Three days and two locations in one blog. Despite it being 4 July weekend, it was wet and mostly uninteresting. I arrived in Rock Island (Illinois) on Friday, which is le...]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:37:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[St. Louis, Missouri]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[2 July, Another day, another Dollar (location). To St Louis

You know you've been somewhere too long when even the panhandlers start high-fiving with you…

To fit with the locals, I'd bought a hat in...]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:12 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memphis, Tennessee]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[1 July, More Memphis

The Elvis museum was ruled out due to being expensive, for something I didn't especially want to see (the basic tour, and it's very basic, is $28, and the worthwhile one, which...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:10:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memphis, Tennessee]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[30 June. Nutbush  City Limits

Today I started with 90 minutes by the pool. It was, as ever, hot, but when the cloud came over I decided I wasn't prepared to put up with the heat unless there was sun...]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:39:38 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memphis, Tennessee]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[29 June, &quot;All The Way To Memphis&quot;, (to paraphrase that immortal 70's Mott title…)

Check out in Tunica was 11:00 which I just about managed. As check-in at the Holiday Inn in downtown Memph...]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tunica, Mississippi]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[26 - 28 June Tunica via the North Mississippi Hill Picnic

After visiting some more locations in Clarksdale, including the Blues Museum which was OPEN!!, I headed off for Potts Camp, North  Mississip...]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:12:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Clarksdale, Mississippi]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[25 June onto Highway 61, the Blues Highway

Today marked the beginning of the intensive blues period of my break, when I reached the Blues   Highway, US route 61. I started at the southern end of the...]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:13:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[24 June, to Baton Rouge Louisiana
 The old Dodge Charger was getting dirty so I took it back and swapped it for something a bit more zippy - a Dodge Magnum, which is what we'd call an estate. It is b...]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:21:01 +0100</pubDate>
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