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		<title>Visiting developing countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among our travels, we have been fortunate to visit two developing countries:  Zambia &#38; Ecuador.   While these two countries are quite different, they share similarities:  poverty, inequality, and disparity.
Zambia, which is in the southern part of Africa, is a really poor country, but one of the observations that I made about businesses is that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=160&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doomed to success?  Visiting the Galapagos &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/doomed-to-success-visiting-the-galapagos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is a good thing too good?  Each year the Galapagos Islands seem to get more and more popular.  At one time, there were only 60,000 visitors to the islands, but it has grown by tens of thousands.  Recently, a five star hotel opened, appropriately $400 &#8211; 500 per night the last time I checked, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=154&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if the US owned the Galapagos?</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/what-if-the-us-owned-the-galapagos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back a couple of months from my visit to the Galapagos Islands and I kept thinking, what if the United States owned the Islands?  At one point, the Islands belonged to no one and Ecuador claimed them, but what if the United States had foreseen their worth and said we want the islands.
Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=155&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My compliments to Grayline tours</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/my-compliments-to-grayline-tours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest decisions to make when traveling is what to do when you get there.  Do you explore on your own or use a tour company?  Well, it depends.  On our trip to Ecuador where language was an issue, we decided to use a tour company, but which one?  I&#8217;ve used Grayline for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=123&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clubbing sea lions to death</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/clubbing-sea-lions-to-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that 53 sea lions in the Galapagos Islands had been clubbed to death.  The deaths were reported as having to have been caused by humans.  Having recently visited the Islands, I can certainly attest that these animals are not afraid of the world&#8217;s most dangerous predator and were easy targets, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=161&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A couple of Quito surprises</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/a-couple-of-quito-surprises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my visit to Quito and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, I learned several things, despite the research that I did prior to making the trip.
Quito is a large sprawling city of about 3 million people and from a distance the city looks wonderfully bright and colorful, but upon closer inspection &#8230;  At more than 3 million, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=124&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Quito surprise — church 2</media:title>
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		<title>Lodging in Quito, a tale of two hotels</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/lodging-in-quito-a-tale-of-two-hotels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our recent visit to Ecuador to visit the Galapagos Islands, we got a chance to spend several days in Quito before our cruise and a couple of days in Quito after the cruise.  We decided to stay at two different hotels in different parts of the city &#8230; we were expanding our experience of Quito, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=122&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite Galapagos Island</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/my-favorite-galapagos-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to determine which of the Galapagos Islands was my favorite is really difficult.  While there is a lot of similarity between the islands, they are also unique too. 
So, on our trip, we visited 6 islands:  Bartholomew, James Island, Fernandina, Isabella, North Seymour, and Santa Cruz.  We would visit one island in the morning and one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=121&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cruise ship or yacht for the Galapagos &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/cruise-ship-or-yacht-for-the-galapagos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major decisions that we had to make regarding our visit to the Galapagos Islands was how do we want to visit the islands &#8230; by land or sea.  The land based option would mean that we would need to stay on one of the islands with a hotel, which subsequently would mean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=108&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confessing my ignorance &#8230; Galapagos Islands</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/confessing-my-ignorance-galapagos-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was planning our trip to the Galapagos Islands, I learned a lot about the country of Ecuador and the Islands themselves.  The Galapagos Islands are world famous, but it is one of those places that you know about without knowing a lot about.
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