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TravBuddy.com: mellemel8's ANTARCTICA &amp; ARGENTINA  2008 travel blog</title>
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<description>OMG finally my dream comes to reality. My dream to play with the penguins. This will be my 6th continent. *THIS IS NOT ONLY AN EXPEDITION BUT AN ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME*                                                                       </description>
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<title>DON&apos;T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA....I WILL BE BACK......</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/DONT-CRY-ME-ARGENTINA-WILL-23</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:48:35 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Dec 08, 2008</p>
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      WOW we have a redeye flight back to LAX. Our flight is at 9pm. We have a layover in Lima, Peru for 3hrs, not very long to hang out to see Yad&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>TODO MUNDO</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/ONCE-SAN-TELMO-EVITA-MUSEUM-22</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:00:28 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Dec 07, 2008</p>
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This is such a cool place to eat. what cought my eye was you can eat on the second floor with the view of the market area of san telmo. there are man&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>ONCE, SAN TELMO &amp; EVITA MUSEUM </title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:46:54 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Dec 07, 2008</p>
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LAST DAY IN BA!!!!It was about 9am, we had breakfast with some of the people who were going to the “LE TIGRE” excursion.&amp;nbsp; We brought our m&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Panamericano Hotel Buenos Aires</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:14:59 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Dec 07, 2008</p>
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i was not impressed with this hotel. this was a 5 star hotel on the 9 de julio ave. waling distance to shopping, conveient stores and restaurants. th&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>LOLA</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/DINNER-RECOLETA-21</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:13:41 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Dec 06, 2008</p>
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This is located in the recoleta area of BA. it is a $5 cab ride from our hotel near the obelisco on 9 de julio ave. this was suggested by one of the &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>BACK AT PORT OF USHUAIA</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/BACK-PORT-USHUAIA-20</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Ushuaia-travel-guide-150093">Ushuaia, Argentina</a>, Dec 06, 2008</p>
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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN USHUAIA!!!We did not do much here. we disembarked at 8am. I woke up at 7am to take photos of our arrival. What a week makes. &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>DINNER IN RECOLETA </title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:45:51 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Dec 06, 2008</p>
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BACK IN BA AND SUCH PERFECT WEATHER!!!!!We arrived at about 3pm, we were not happy with the hotel at all. we dropped off our stuff in the hotel bef&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>ALL ABOUT THE MV FRAM &amp; RECAP OF THE EXPEDITION </title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/ALL-ABOUT-MV-FRAM-RECAP-EXPEDITION-19</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:56:59 PST</pubDate>
<description>ALL ABOUT THE MV FRAM &amp; RECAP OF THE EXPEDITION </description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Drake-Passage-travel-guide-1308331">Drake Passage, Chile</a>, Dec 05, 2008</p>
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        WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!This was day of sadness for me.&amp;nbsp; this is the last night on the MV FRAM. This was another fantastic voyage. Th&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>BYE BYE ANTARCTICA.....NO MORE ICEBERGS :(</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/BYE-BYE-ANTARCTICA-NO-MORE-17</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:03 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Half-Moon-Island-travel-guide-1322128">Half Moon Island, Antarctica</a>, Dec 04, 2008</p>
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      WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BYE ANTARCTICA!!!!!!!We did not land on Half Moon Island. it was too rocky and windy. The expedition team tired. I was dying &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>DRAKE THE SHAKE</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/DRAKE-SHAKE-18</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:48:31 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Drake-Passage-travel-guide-1308331">Drake Passage, Chile</a>, Dec 04, 2008</p>
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                              BORING DAY AT SEAI slept for a total of 16 hours. I went to be at 12am them woke up at 1pm then i ate lunch and went &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>BEAUTIFUL ICEBERGS AND ICEBERG DEBRIS </title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/BEAUTIFUL-ICEBERGS-ICEBERG-DEBRIS-16</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Wilhelmina-Bay-travel-guide-1322130">Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica</a>, Dec 03, 2008</p>
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  THE LAST AREA TO SEE ICEBERGS :(We continue to cruise inside Wilhelmina bay.&amp;nbsp; It is such a beautiful view. We did not however enter Enterpri&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>NEKO HARBOR</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/NEKO-HARBOR-15</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Neko-Harbor-travel-guide-1322129">Neko Harbor, Antarctica</a>, Dec 03, 2008</p>
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“A JOURNEY IS A PERSON IN ITSELF, NO TWO ARE ALIKE, AND ALL PLANS. SAFEGUARD, POLICIES AND COERCION ARE FRUITLESS. WE FIND AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGL&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>GENTOOS, ADELIES, AND ICEBERGS...OH MY!!!!</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/GENTOOS-ADELIES-ICEBERGS-OH-13</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:54:44 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Petermann-Island-travel-guide-1322692">Petermann Island, Antarctica</a>, Dec 02, 2008</p>
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        ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN ANTARCTICA....EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO SUN :(YEAH!!!! My group is up next. I was looking forward to this. I wanted &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>EEEEEK I AM  BRA-LESS IN ANTARCTICA!!!!</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/EEEEEK-AM-BRA-LESS-ANTARCTICA-14</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:01 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Vernadsky-travel-guide-1322561">Vernadsky, Antarctica</a>, Dec 02, 2008</p>
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                WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND!!!&amp;nbsp;My mum decided not to join me at this landing. She was exhausted with the last landing. I br&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>LEMAIRE CHANNEL</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/LEMAIRE-CHANNEL-12</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:51:54 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Lemaire-Channel-travel-guide-1322140">Lemaire Channel, Antarctica</a>, Dec 02, 2008</p>
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&quot;WHO WOULD BELIEVE IN PENGUINS UNLESS HE HAD SEEN THEM?&quot; - CONOR O&apos;BRIENANTARCTICA IS MAGICALWOW we were all woken up by the sound of Anja’s voic&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>NEKO HARBOR &amp; ALMIRANTE BROWN</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Neko-Harbor-travel-guide-1322129">Neko Harbor, Antarctica</a>, Dec 01, 2008</p>
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      &quot;FIRST YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ANTARCTICA, AND THEN IT BREAKS YOUR HEART.&quot; - KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, the line of his book ANTARCTICAICEBERGS!!!!!&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>PORT LOCKROY STATION</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/PORT-LOCKROY-STATION-11</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:02 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Port-Lockroy-travel-guide-1308335">Port Lockroy, Antarctica</a>, Dec 01, 2008</p>
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              A VERY LATE LANDING...NO JOKE!!!!!!!!We arrived here about 5pm. we were supposed to land here around 7pm. however, it is quite cloudy&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>GONZALEZ VIDELA STATION</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/GONZALEZ-VIDELA-STATION-10</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Greenwich-Island-travel-guide-1322877">Greenwich Island, Antarctica</a>, Dec 01, 2008</p>
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We just passed by. We did not land. We could have. There was plenty of penguins rookeries.González Videla Base, on the Antarctic mainland&apos;s Paradise&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>DRAKE THE LAKE</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/DRAKE-LAKE-7</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:42:56 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Drake-Passage-travel-guide-1308331">Drake Passage, Chile</a>, Nov 30, 2008</p>
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  &quot;I NOW BELONG TO A HIGHER CULT OF MORTALS FOR I HAVE SEEN THE ALBATROSS.&quot; - ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY&quot;GUESS WHEN THE FIRST SIGHTING OF AN ICEBERG&quot; CO&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>CHINSTRAP PENGUINS, SKUA, ELEPHANT SEAL...OH MY!??!?!</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/CHINSTRAP-PENGUINS-SKUA-ELEPHANT-8</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:46:08 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Deception-Island-travel-guide-1308334">Deception Island, Antarctica</a>, Nov 30, 2008</p>
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          WOOHOO FIRST LANDING OF THE EXPEDITION!!!&amp;nbsp;I was so excited to get out of the boat. Our first landing at 4pm, it takes time to put on&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>ENTERING DRAKE PASSAGE</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/ENTERING-DRAKE-PASSAGE-6</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:41:52 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Drake-Passage-travel-guide-1308331">Drake Passage, Chile</a>, Nov 29, 2008</p>
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&quot;YOU WAIT, EVERYONE HAS AN ANTARCTIC&quot; - THOMAS PYNCHONWILL I NEED MY &quot;HAPPY PILLS?!?!?!&quot;There is not much to say about today. Mum and I had Filipin&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>PORT OF USHUAIA </title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/28106/PORT-USHUAIA-5</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Ushuaia-travel-guide-150093">Ushuaia, Argentina</a>, Nov 28, 2008</p>
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          JUST 2 MORE DAYS AS SEA......After lunch, we walked around to go shopping. I did not want to go shopping. I want to explore and take phot&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>TIERRA DEL FUEGO NATIONAL PARK</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Tierra-del-Fuego-travel-guide-1308984">Tierra del Fuego, Argentina</a>, Nov 28, 2008</p>
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    FIRST STOP.....It was a 4hr flight to Ushuaia, we all flew on LAN. We flew from a smaller airport to Ushuaia called the Jorge Newberry airport.&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>BAR IDEAL</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Ushuaia-travel-guide-150093">Ushuaia, Argentina</a>, Nov 28, 2008</p>
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This was suggested by a man who was selling boat tours to Patagonia. he did not know how to speak english but i could understand fish and crab in spa&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>MORITA EMPANADAS</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:42:09 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Nov 27, 2008</p>
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We just arrived in BA. after getting settled in our hotel. we washed up and explored downtown. my mum and i new argentina is known of their empanadas&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>La Chacra</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:50:05 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Nov 27, 2008</p>
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This was recommended to us by the hurtigurten rep in the hotel. it was only 2 blocks away from the panamericano hotel. argentina is known for the ste&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>EFFFING HOT IN BUENOS AIRES</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:26:25 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Buenos-Aires-travel-guide-145260">Buenos Aires, Argentina</a>, Nov 27, 2008</p>
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              EMPANADA TIME!!!!!!OMG as soon as I walked thought the walk way, we can feel the heat. I already knew ahead of time that it was going&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>4HR LAYOVER IN MIAMI</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:28:15 PST</pubDate>
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  MIAMI IS NICE…..MIAMI S NICE!!!!!&amp;nbsp;I passed out from LAX to MIA. I could not sleep from the night before. I was packing and doing last minu&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>THE JOURNEY BEGINS......</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:34 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Los-Angeles-travel-guide-12789">Los Angeles, California</a>, Nov 25, 2008</p>
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          I AM STILL ON MY GALAPAGOS HIGH!!!!!&amp;nbsp;This is the first time am blogging about my pre travels.&amp;nbsp; I think its absurd writing about&amp;hellip;</p>
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