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	<title>Tim Leffel&#039;s Cheapest Destinations &#187; Travel gear</title>
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		<title>Smart Packing for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about to be that time of year again, when planes are jammed, tempers are flaring, and we&#8217;re supposed to deliver gifts while full of cheer.
Of course it&#8217;s hard to be cheerful when you&#8217;re paying $25 to $75 to check bags after already paying inflated holiday airfares. So check out this article I got quoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Travel Info From Elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m busy getting the 3rd annual Remarkable Photo Contest ready to launch this weekend on Perceptive Travel, so here&#8217;s some useful travel info from elsewhere to make this a week of being wiser.
8 things you should know about Gore-tex (that I didn&#8217;t until two weeks ago).
The fine print on credit cards keeps getting worse and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Packing the Right Travel Gear</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leffel projects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just packed up my backpack to head off to Ecuador and the Galapagos, so gadgets and gear are on my mind. Two weeks of stuff packed into my trusty Eagle Creek Meridian 55L pack.
Here&#8217;s a guest post I did for the Travel Gear Blog over at BootsnAll a couple weeks ago: 7 cheap round-the-world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons to use Skype When You Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you travel around the world with your cell phone, crackberry, or iPhone, you could end up spending a fortune to communicate. I&#8217;ve heard so many sad tales of $1,000+ surprise bills that I&#8217;m convinced it&#8217;s a huge profit center for the mobile phone companies, especially the one with the iPhone monopoly here in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a Cool Travel Bag</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/13/win-a-cool-travel-bag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel gear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Practical Travel Gear blog, Kara Williams reviews the cool line of Overland Equipment bags. These are geat bags (okay, oversized purses really) to stuff full of what you need when on the move around a city. &#8220;Great,&#8221; you say. &#8220;Just what I need. Drooling over some other piece of travel gear I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Changing My Tune on Traveling with Laptops</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been saying since the dawn of laptops that traveling with one is a pain in the rear. I should know, I&#8217;ve been carrying one since the dawn of laptops and every time I am able to go on vacation without one it&#8217;s like someone has removed a giant boulder from my back. Not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling Dads and Bad Travel Stories</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/08/07/traveling-dads-and-bad-travel-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back home after two months on the road, going through a virtual mountain of snail mail (when will I read a stack of 22 magazines?) So meanwhile here are a few links to things with my name on them.
There&#8217;s just one quick quote from me in this piece about dads traveling alone with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Gear Ideas for Packing Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel gear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking off for two months, but I&#8217;m not backpacking. I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve gone away for this long solid since I had a kid many years ago. To complicate matters further, the first five weeks will mainly be in two places: an apartment we&#8217;ve rented in a colonial city and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Home for Travel Gear Reviews</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/05/06/new-home-for-travel-gear-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leffel projects]]></category>
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As some of you readers know, for years I have been reviewing affordable travel gear on the Practical Travel Gear blog. After close to 300 posts on the subject, it&#8217;s time for a change. I am finally getting serious and moving it off the ugly Blogger platform and onto its own pretty site with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solar-Powered Traveler</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/04/17/the-solar-powered-traveler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a difference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the comments after my green travel interview post, someone asked, &#8220;Have you figured out if there’s any way to travel around the world without ever plugging into a wall socket? With/without a laptop?&#8221;
The second part of that question is the tricky part, but the first part is now not all that hard. For a [...]]]></description>
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