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		<title>Weekly Photo Challenge:  Escape</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/17/weekly-photo-challenge-escape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Borderworlds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An escape.  Or rather, an attempted escape. On a trip completely paid for by my employer, I was shuttled off to the north of Thailand for a long weekend.  The highlight of the trip for me was to be in range of the Golden Triangle and the Burma border crossing at Mae Sai.  Everywhere else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Theme: Elements of the Mekong</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/17/travel-theme-elements-of-the-mekong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 08:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiang Khong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Khon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Houay Xai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luang Prabang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mekong River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naga Fireballs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phon Phisai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Si Phan Don]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Travel Theme by Ailsa at WhereMyBackpack.com is The Four Elements.   Sticking with a common theme through the four picture challenges, I thought I&#8217;d recount a little tour down the Mekong River. Water. Crossing the Mekong River at Chiang Kong, near Chiang Rai at the northern tip of thailand. This is one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Reblog #16:  Why Do I Come Here? [Antarctica]</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/12/weekly-reblog-16-why-do-i-come-here-antarctica/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/12/weekly-reblog-16-why-do-i-come-here-antarctica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 10:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dark Corners of the Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Abroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[working]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why Do I Come Here? &#124; brown paper blue ink &#8220;I come here because it frames my whole life from a totally different perspective, because it makes me appreciate little things I can’t have . . . It makes me appreciate things I don’t like . . . It makes me appreciate my family and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Theme:  Beaches</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/10/travel-theme-beaches/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/10/travel-theme-beaches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Peninsula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shipwrecks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Whitefish Point]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thailand, where I am now, has its share of magnificent beaches. Mountain-encircled. Clear blue watered. Silhouettes of fishing boats crawl along the horizon mimicking snails. So too did Malaysia and Puerto Rico before that. However, the beach I chose to share for this Travel Theme, Whitefish Point, is one of the most uniquely iconic I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore:  At the Elephant&#8217;s Snout</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/10/singapore-at-the-elephants-snout/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/10/singapore-at-the-elephants-snout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Borderworlds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Story So Far]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince of Wales Backpacker Pub]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[View Larger Map &#160; &#160; Well, I was there; Singapore, the end of this expedition. The snout of the Elephant&#8217;s Trunk. That fabled first world megacity shining over the developing entirety of South East Asia. Crossing the bridge into the island city-state, perhaps a sign of my naivete, I expected to immediately be riding amidst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Photo Challenge:  Above</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/05/weekly-photo-challenge-above/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 14:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A memorial of when I first started this story and flew away from Grand Rapids on a one way ticket.  The downtown directly in the center beneath and Lake Michigan in the horizon. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Theme: Dance</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/05/travel-theme-dance/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/05/05/travel-theme-dance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 14:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bollywood Bar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little India]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pathsunwritten.com/?p=3566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Wherever you are, are you dancing on the dancefloor, drinking by the bar?” It&#8217;s a question posited by Ke$ha on her newest CD. And yes, I am willing to admit that Ke$ha is a guilty pleasure on my iPod. The question itself though is one that echoes curiously throughout the world, though likely not by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Theme:  Light</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/04/29/travel-theme-light/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/04/29/travel-theme-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phonsavan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plain of Jars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Theme]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pathsunwritten.com/?p=3557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Plain of Jars Site 1, my final stop over a hellishly adventurous day of exploring ancient ruins amidst active minefields. I was convinced my wrists may be broken after 5 hours of riding on a motorcycle after a spill on a jagged road. Site 1 is the largest and most accessible of the Plain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Photo Challenge:  Culture</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/04/29/weekly-photo-challenge-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/04/29/weekly-photo-challenge-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Champasak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songkran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pathsunwritten.com/?p=3552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Out on the open road again, this time in the southern limits of Laos, I was driving away from the insanity of the New Year water festival, Songkran or Pii Mai Lao, that would be ensuing in Pakse. About forty kilometers downstream on the Mekong River is town of Champasak, former capital of one of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Travel Theme: Contrast</title>
		<link>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/04/20/travel-theme-contrast/</link>
		<comments>http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/04/20/travel-theme-contrast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weekly Photo Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muang Tam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phamon Rung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Theme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Straddling the Cambodia border, atop of the extinct volcano of Phanom Rung, is one of the most magnificent Angkorian structures outside of Cambodia.  Prasat Phanom Rung is a temple dedicated to Shiva and on a major pilgrimage route stemming from Angkor Wat to Phimai in Thailand. To this day, Buddhist pilgrims come and honor this [...]]]></description>
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