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		<title>China &#8211; the Karen Dynasty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[China &#8211; the Karen Dynasty A lot has changed within China since my first visit 3 years ago. Or maybe just within me. Or both. My only overlap between the trips was Beijing so I suppose its like comparing Chow Mein to Chow Fun. My last trip was down through the guts to Vietnam (that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=475&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year In Australia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what to say.  Too much.  Let&#8217;s make this a placeholder for now.  Here are the pics which can do some of the talking.  Whew. Chronologically&#8230; Family Oz Christmas Family NZ New Years NZ South Island Road Trip Wilson&#8217;s Prom WA Australia Til Now Building the Yellow Brick Road Whitsundays Grampians Snow in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=467&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil &#8211; now with words!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil &#8211; O Norte Brazil &#8211; Rio to Sao Brazil &#8211; Pantanal to Iguazu I sit here on my cousin&#8217;s couch in Sao Paolo pondering my 6 weeks in this marvelous country. Given my travel history, six weeks within one border is an eternity and this one has worked its way into my heart like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=409&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa &#8211; Johannesburg South Africa &#8211; Cape Town Johannesburg (Part 1) Team Botswana (Brig, James, Michelle, and myself) was temporarily divided between air and land onward routes to South Africa. Brigid and I, of course, opted for 7 buses over two long days while the employed Americans soared high in the sky like the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=393&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Botswana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Botswana Botwana is second to Zambia in ease of entry and tied with nicest people in Africa. Brigid and I freeloaded on a boat across the Chobe River and bam, in Botswana. There’s an optional customs building that you can elect to go into but whatever.  We did since the visa is free and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=390&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zambia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zambia Getting there was more than half the battle for us. We left Zanzibar island in Tanzania and this is how it went. Left hotel at 5am, day one (pouring rain, for effect) 15 minute tromp through mud puddles with heavy bags and clothes getting soaked 3 hour way-too-fast-to-be-safe-at-rough-seas ferry. They passed out barf bags [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=376&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanzania</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tanzania Part One: A Morsel of Kenya We arrived in Nairobi, Kenya in the middle of a damp night. In the dark, we raced to erect our new REI tent against the interests of the early morning creepy crawlies. This tent is awesome but after squeezing our massive bags inside, Brigid and I are left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=367&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/egypt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt &#8211; Nile Egypt &#8211; Sinai Egypt was a late addition to the grand plan. In fact, everything aside from South Africa was a late add. In 2006, four drunk riled up Yanks in the midst of German World Cup fever proclaimed that come 2010, we’d make our foray onto African soil for the next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=364&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 15:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This next adventure takes Brigid and I through Africa and South America over the next 4 months. The lead up has been a déjà vu of my last pack-up-and-go in 2008 with my job, housing, and life all wrapped up and put on hold. However, the distinct wave of excitement that launched me on my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=357&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haiti. March 27 &#8211; April 4, 2010 It looks like Baghdad, maybe worse.  It reminds me of WWII movies like Saving Private Ryan. Every third building is pancaked and smashed making up a quilt of rolling concrete known as Port-au-Prince. After an hour in the back of a pick up truck: new neighborhood, same destruction. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=321&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>16 Final Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA.  June 1, 2009 &#8211; April 30, 2010  Pics Holy cow, America is weird. Not really. The black man in the white house makes me feel warm and fuzzy despite being unemployed and living with my parents (I mean roommates). My past three months of reintegration have been shockingly smooth and painless. The few moments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=302&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Southeast Asia</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/southeast-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 14 &#8211; May 31, 2009 To minimize my overwhelming re-entry into the USA, I’ve decided to forego any formal remarks on my southeast Asian adventure. It has been exactly that, an adventure, but it’s so colorful, diverse, and exciting, that telling the tale seems an unmountable task. Maybe I’ll work through some commentary someday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=252&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>14 Panda Espresso</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/panda-espresso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China.  January 25 &#8211; February 13, 2009  Pics I arrived in Beijing at about 9pm from Delhi.  After 3 weeks of zipping across India, I was excited about a very loose agenda in China.  First priority: stay in one place until I had decompressed and gathered my chi.  I’ve learned that I need downtime when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=244&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>13 Holy Cow!</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/13-holy-cow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India.  January 8-25, 2009  Pics This is the second half in the adventure of Esteban and his Brownbear (one of our many band names). Dubai was a wonderful double paned window into the East but India was a circus. It’s the polar opposite of humanity as I know it. I’ve never been more aware of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=227&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12 Arabian Knights</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/12-arabian-knights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.A.E.  January 3-8, 2009 Pics I arrived for my first Arabian night shortly after fulfilling my first international beer run.  Brownbear, who I was meeting up with, had arrived in Dubai a few days ahead of me and emailed me a Duty Free request.  The richer-than-Allah nation isn‘t so down with Western holy drink.  Booze [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=206&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11 Caledonia&#8217;s Calling</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/caledonias-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Scotland. Dec 16, 2008 &#8211; Jan 2, 2009  Pics Scotland is the reason I included Europe in my little quarter-life adventure altogether. I’ve always loved the bagpipin’ culture, its castles, its accent, its whisky, its Guinness, its Mel Gibson movies. (Ok, some of that is Irish but I lump them together like their sentiments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=201&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Scousers &amp; Liverpudlians</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/10-scousers-liverpudlians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  England. December 12-16, 2008  Pics The 12 hour return train ride from Sarajevo to Budapest passed much quicker despite the smoky rickety cabin I lucked into.  It was perhaps attributed to the drunken Korean sitting across from me…like a postcard from Denny.  I had one more night in Budapest with Zoltan and to avoid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=189&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>09 Austro-Bosnian Accord</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/09-austro-bosnian-accord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vienna &#38; Sarajevo. December 3-10, 2008  Pics After my time in Budapest with Rodney, Zoltan, and the mob, I decided to take the two hour train to Vienna for a couple days to mitigate my impending hit. I’m 25% Austrian and my mom, who is half, had encouraged me to visit the motherland anyway. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=181&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>08 Budapestered</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/08-budapestered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungary. November 27-December 6, 2008  Pics I had been looking forward to Budapest for a long time. Ever since visiting Prague a few years back, I was determined to see the other notable city to transcend the curtain. Donned the Paris of Eastern Europe (probably by their board of tourism), I can at least confirm its beauty. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=174&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>07 София</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/07-%d1%81%d0%be%d1%84%d0%b8%d1%8f/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bulgaria &#38; Serbia. November 15-27, 2008  Click for Pictures &#8230;pronounced Sophia, for those of you that might not be fluent in Wingdings.  Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria where I spent a nocturnal week trying to decipher their Cyrillic code.  Luckily, my banshee brother, Andy of FC PBR fame, set me up to stay with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=165&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mlog</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/mlog-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 27, 2008 (Happy Thanksgiving!) A few things I miss so far.  My miss log.  My mlog. Dad&#8217;s new secret recipe for grilled corn Mom&#8217;s transforming veggies into filet mignon Watching SNL with sis Midnight adventures with the broski The fam Cal Ollying up a curb Yoga night BDs A full sized guitar Lights going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=161&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>06  Oopsies, We$tern Europe</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/06-oopsies-wetern-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luzern, Paris, Amsterdam. November 5-15, 2008  Click for Pictures My favorite part of my life Is letting it go to see what turns out right Or turns out wrong Its all the same I&#8217;ll get to write a new song I failed to mention in my Turkey entry that there was a sequel reunion in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=143&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>05  Turkey, Its Whats for Dinner</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/05-turkey-its-whats-for-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey. October 25-November 5, 2008  Click for Pictures Turkey was an interesting place for me.  I arrived and was overwhelmed. I would discover a few days later that it wasn&#8217;t that bad but I had a rough start.  Maybe because I was without the warm bosom of the fam.  Maybe because there was no airplane [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=140&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>04  Oopsies, Italia</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/oopsies-italia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy. October 20-25, 2008  Click for Pictures A week ahead of schedule, I was heading to Turkey on the first of four ferry&#8217;s over the 48 hours it would take to get there.  I was up for the adventure. With the first leg behind me, I faced a 14 hr layover on the island of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=126&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>03 Gyro-pa!</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/gyro-pa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece. October 12-20, 2008  Click for Pictures The flight from Ireland was quick and painless and sitting in the aisle seat next to me was a new character, airplane girl #3. I&#8217;ll admit, I had been checking her out in the airport lounge just like airplane girls #1 and #2 and now she was chatting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=109&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>02  Land of Ire</title>
		<link>http://mrsabbatical.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/02ireland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ireland. October 6-12, 2008  Click for Pictures It wasn&#8217;t until the day before my departure from the states that I realized how long six months was really going to be.  But within an hour of arriving at LAX, I had already zipped through the airport and found myself drinking pre-flight pints with some Irish guys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=54&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>01  So it begins&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 5, 2008 Sabbatical (n) &#8211; a leave from work for research, study, or travel, often with pay and usually granted to college professors every seven years. For many reasons, this definition seems most applicable to my little journey even though my negotiation skills stopped short of the “with pay” part.  I&#8217;m sure other labels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrsabbatical.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4978335&amp;post=42&amp;subd=mrsabbatical&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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