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		<title>Where did all the hippies go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just recently returned from a trip to Colorado Springs, CO.  When I first started planning the trip, I thought, &#8220;how exciting, I&#8217;m going to CO.&#8221;  Then as I started planning my trip, I started wondering, &#8220;what is there to do in Colorado Spring?&#8221;  Of course, there is the natural beauty of the area, i.e., [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=216&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising Alaska</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/cruising-alaska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my possible holiday trips this summer is a 7-day Alaskan cruise on Royal Caribbean.  Deciding which cruise line to take can be difficult, as it was in my case.  I&#8217;ve been critical of travel agencies and their cookie cutter service, which is one of the reasons why I painstakingly make my travel arrangements myself, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=199&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doomed to success?  Visiting the Galapagos &#8230;</title>
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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.
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		<title>My compliments to Grayline tours</title>
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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>
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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>My favorite Galapagos Island</title>
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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>
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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.
I knew the Galapagos Islands are a series of islands.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=106&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Galapagos Explorer II &#8230; now that&#8217;s one fine ship</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/galapagos-explorer-ii-now-thats-one-fine-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I was a little skeptical about exploring the Galapagos Islands on the Explorer II.  The ship is owned and operated by Canodros who markets themselves as ecotourism providers.  There were a couple of things that I was concerned about like how comfortable would the ship be, would we get motion sickness, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=100&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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