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		<title>Trip wrap, part 6: riding the rails</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/trip-wrap-part-6-riding-the-rails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so, the final day. It was an epic journey that lasted 16 hours, from when I left my hostel in Eugene to the arrival at my front door back in Vancouver. 12.5 hours of that was spent on a train. That might not be everyone&#8217;s cup of tea, but the cost (USD 67.00 total) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=293&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip wrap, part 5: running in Eugene</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California/Oregon 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearing the end of my trip, and I wasn&#8217;t sure if I should stay in Eugene, or just move on to Portland. And as much as I love Portland, I figured a night in Eugene wouldn&#8217;t hurt. It rained most of the day, and I had to drag my suitcase through it all, since the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=287&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip wrap, part 4: the appeal of Ashland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 04:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California/Oregon 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oregon shakespeare festival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Ashland. I came here for culture, and I got culture, and then some. For me, this was the high-school trip I missed out on. My school organized a yearly trip to Ashland at the beginning of the year to take in some Shakespeare (and go on a really long trip away from home; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=279&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip wrap, part 3: driving the redwood coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 00:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California/Oregon 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew when I headed to San Francisco that this would be the part of the trip that could test me mentally. In case you can&#8217;t tell, I&#8217;m doing this trip by myself. While I did do a coastal detour from Seattle to Portland two years ago (at least 500 km through nine hours of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=269&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip wrap, part 2: just four days?</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/trip-wrap-part-2-just-four-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 21:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California/Oregon 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back at the four days I&#8217;ve spent in San Francisco, I&#8217;m amazed at how much I wasn&#8217;t able to see. But I&#8217;ll summarize instead what I did do, and maybe you can tell me what I should see or do next time. • Day 1: I stayed close to my hostel when I arrived; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=255&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip wrap: the plane, train, and automobile tour (and a few other modes as well!)</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/trip-wrap-the-plane-train-and-automobile-tour-and-a-few-other-modes-as-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California/Oregon 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trip wrap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those eight days were fun. Tiring, but fun. I timed my return, so that, had I been working, I’d have another two days in a long weekend to decompress before I get back to the real world. Even though I’m not working, I still allowed this decompression period before starting my reflection process for this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=260&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The plane, train, and automobile tour</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/the-plane-train-and-automobile-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 14:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California/Oregon 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trip preview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m typing this at YVR, waiting for my flight to SFO. This week-long trip has probably come at the worst possible time, being unemployed and having not enough money, but I&#8217;m going anyway. The title of this post only came about yesterday, when I realized that after my plane trip and a few days in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=249&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospective: honoured hostels</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/retrospective-honoured-hostels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK/Ireland 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoscars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hostels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian: Hoscars&#8217; top 10 UK hostels It&#8217;s now been six months since I left for an amazing trip. During the month I traveled through Scotland, Ireland and Wales, I&#8217;ve stayed in a lot of hostels. Most of them were average; in most cases, I merely thought of them as a place to store your stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=238&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching up with carbon offsets</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/catching-up-with-carbon-offsets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK/Ireland 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon offset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. It&#8217;s now been three months since I finished that wonderful trip to the UK, Ireland, and Paris. While I&#8217;m expected to display my photo slideshow to the family on Christmas eve, the one thing still outstanding for me is to find out about offsetting the carbon used during my flights (and if possible, my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=234&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What now?</title>
		<link>http://mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/what-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been two months since I left for Europe, and almost a month since I&#8217;ve returned. In the correspondences I&#8217;ve been having with people I&#8217;ve met and have returned, they too still want to be travelling. I&#8217;m no exception, and that should have been the case. Originally, I intended to travel to Japan and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindthehalfgap.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4036570&amp;post=223&amp;subd=mindthehalfgap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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