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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be a Victim of Others&#8217; Wrong Assumptions</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/11/09/travel-dangers-and-assumptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much are you influenced by what other people think&#8212;even if they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about?
Witness these examples from Seth Godin&#8217;s blog:
Texting while driving is more dangerous than driving drunk. It doesn&#8217;t feel that way, of course, but will you respect the data and stop, cold turkey?
The data shows that the vast majority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Succumbing to a Group Tour (for a Good Reason)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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Long-term budget travelers are, by nature, and independent lot. You wouldn&#8217;t be out there backpacking around in the first place if you were trying to fit in and conform to the norm. &#8220;I don&#8217;t do group tours&#8221; is a common stance, spoken or unspoken.
I was just forced to be on a group tour for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off the Grid in Ecuador</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel adventures]]></category>
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This post was put up in advance, for I am currently cavorting with blue-footed boobies and giant tortoises on the Galapagos islands, moving around on a sailing ship.
So I will not be blogging, tweeting, phoning, or answering e-mail for a while. Just like the pre-internet, pre-mobile phone days. Sometimes it&#8217;s good to be forced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Travel Assumptions Die Hard</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/10/04/old-travel-assumptions-die-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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Once a place becomes a pariah destination, it&#8217;s pretty hard to dig out of that hole. Blame it on sensationalist cable TV or our brain&#8217;s constant search for patterns and shortcuts, but once war-torn regions stay that way in people&#8217;s minds even after a decade of peace.
There&#8217;s a great piece on this subject on MSNBC.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buses in Belize</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/05/buses-in-belize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Latin America Travel]]></category>
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If a picture speaks a thousand words, here are a few thousand words on the buses in Belize.
First up at the top is a shot of the sitting area in the Belize City bus station. This is the main bus station in the largest city &#8212;the commercial center of the country. The toilets are just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barefoot Faithful, Atomic Tourism, and an Untitled Story about Asolo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s time for another issue of Perceptive Travel, home to the best travel stories from book authors on the move.
That tag line sounds kind of cocky when one of the stories is mine&#8212;on Atomic Tourism and Secret Cities. But I&#8217;ve won a few awards for narratives I&#8217;ve written over the years, so I guess I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Fiestas Have it All</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/25/mexican-fiestas-have-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Latin America Travel]]></category>
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Where I am currently spending a month, in Guanajuato City, offices, the university, and banks are shut down for four days so that everyone can have ample time to party. This is a common occurrance in Mexico and the reason doesn&#8217;t really matter, but in this case it&#8217;s to celebrate the start of rainy season. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whine Flu, Schwine Flu</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/05/14/whine-flu-schwine-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t weighed in much on this overblown media frenzy of this swine flu episode because I&#8217;m really tired of hearing about it and think we&#8217;d all be better off if everyone started focusing on things that really do kill lots of people&#8212;like guns and malaria.
I&#8217;m flying to Los Cabos in two weeks and of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia? No, New Mexico</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/04/06/cappadocia-no-new-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap North America Travel]]></category>
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No matter how much I travel, I still manage to get blown away by someplace new, especially when I get surprised by something I wasn&#8217;t expecting. That&#8217;s been the case this past few days for me in New Mexico.
This is my first visit to Albuquerque and Santa Fe and I&#8217;ve spent a fair bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiking To and Around Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/03/30/hiking-to-and-around-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had a story in the Sunday Boston Globe on hiking to Machu Picchu. That link goes to the online version. I haven&#8217;t seen the hard copy yet but the photo they used is from my Inca Trail hike about four years ago. Since that time, rates have pretty much doubled, as I discussed [...]]]></description>
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