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	<title>Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations</title>
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	<description>Bargain destinations and the cheapest places to travel</description>
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		<title>Cambodian Picnics, Green Vermont, and Being Stuck in an Earthquake Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes it&#8217;s time for another fine issue of Perceptive Travel, where we circle from Cambodia to China to Vermont, then go around the world again with a rundown of graphic travel novels from Marie Javins.
Michael Buckley goes picnicking at the ruins of Angkor Wat, Carolyn B. Heller finds herself in an earthquake zone in China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Buses Rock!</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/30/mexican-buses-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cheap Latin America Travel]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve talked before about how great the Mexican bus system is, but this is one method of transportation that keeps getting better. I am writing this blog post on the bus itself, on my 4-hour ride from Zacatecas to Leon. Yes on the bus&#8212;they have Internet access now on the executive class ones from ETN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your News Intake While Traveling</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/29/your-news-intake-while-traveling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the wonderful things about traveling is you can remove yourself from the incessant silly faux-news chatter going on in your home country. OK, Michael Jackson died and it might have been drug-related. Do we really need to know any more than that? Wake me up when it&#8217;s settled.
It does pay to keep an [...]]]></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>
		
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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>My Guanajuato Home Base</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/23/my-guanajuato-home-base/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
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Since I&#8217;m halfway through my month of kicking back in Guanajuato, Mexico with my family, I suppose it&#8217;s time to talk about where I&#8217;ve been logging in from.
Since I have worked myself into a job that&#8217;s portable, I am spending a tad more than six weeks in Mexico and a tad less than two weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still a Buyer&#8217;s Market in Thailand</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/22/still-a-buyers-market-in-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the official stats, arrivals were way down in May at Thailand&#8217;s airports compared to last year. Declines in passengers averaged 17% across the board, with traffic down 22% at the Bangkok international airport and international arrivals were down 30% at Chiang Mai&#8217;s airport. Here&#8217;s a full rundown on the stats.
Of course readers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Travel Advice for Europe</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/19/budget-travel-advice-for-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheap Europe Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been focused a lot lately on parts of the world that are both cheap and close, but the fact is many travelers are taking advantage of some of the best flight prices to Europe in years. They&#8217;re cashing on a high season that&#8217;s not feeling so high in this global economic funk. As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day of the Crazies</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/16/day-of-the-crazies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Better known as Dia de Los Locos, Day of the Crazies is an annual parade in San Miguel de Allende that is a real spectacle. I managed to shove my way to a good vantage point, but Donna did a better job of getting front and center and captured these great photos.


  
The daughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Persistence</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/12/the-power-of-persistence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After five attempts on different days, I finally found cheap flights for three across Mexico. The solution involves a bus ride and a taxi, but we save $100 each in the end and get a direct flight, so worth it.
After juggling dates and moving around arrangements, I cashed in miles for two flights to Ecuador [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Travel Means Coping With Noise</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/11/cheap-travel-means-coping-with-noise/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/06/11/cheap-travel-means-coping-with-noise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Long-term travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How well do you deal with noise? If you are about to go backpacking around the world, you had better get good at tuning out cacophony. Or you had better pack a monster bag of earplugs. Get ready to hear night noise like you have never heard before.
I am reminded of this fact as I [...]]]></description>
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