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		<title>Reaching New Heights: The Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tears started before I even set foot on the bridge. It was 8 a.m. and our climb was scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. I grazed through the gift shop and made back-to-back trips to the bathroom. I walked up one flight of stairs to the &#8216;holding area&#8217;, where I would await my tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>35 Travel Tips Revealed: Top Secrets of Travel Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being paid to travel the world and write about it may sound like a dream job &#8212; and you&#8217;ve never heard me complain while I peck away on my computer from a cafe in Rome or an oceanfront hotel in Spain. But it&#8217;s not always as glamorous as it sounds. Travel writers encounter the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney, Australia: The Journey Down Under</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s a vacation with some video footage? Following the Bridge Climb and the subsequent cocktails that followed, I mustered the strength to whip together this photo montage of the trip to Sydney! Here&#8217;s my trip, condensed to a single YouTube video:]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Flight: Inside the Airbus 320</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask my Mom what one of her secrets to keeping sane was when she had two kids under the age of 6, she’ll tell you it was learning to fly. She didn’t fly herself, but she taught us not to be scared of flying. I was the kid with her nose pressed against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown to Oz: So Little Time, So Much To Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just a few weeks I&#8217;ll be sitting pretty in economy-class on 16-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, courtesy of VAustralia. When I purchased the ticket I told myself, &#8220;Economy class will be fine! You can walk around, watch some movies, maybe you&#8217;ll make a few new friends&#8230; you don&#8217;t need to spend the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Cockpit: Flying the Cessna 402</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always wanted to learn to fly. For as long as I can remember, I&#8217;ve been fascinated with aviation, flight, and space travel. My parents encouraged my fascination &#8211; they bought me books and model airplanes, sent me off to Space Camp and one year, they even did a surprise drive-by of Cape Canaveral on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Together: Five Guilty Travel Pleasures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[montmartre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague recently asked me, &#8220;How do you keep it together with all this travel?&#8221; I laughed out loud and thought, &#8220;what in the world is &#8216;together&#8217; and how do I get there?&#8221; The reality of the situation: if you don&#8217;t love to travel, you probably couldn&#8217;t handle this lifestyle. But, there is a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January Photo: Sailing into the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[photo of the month]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.&#8221; ~Helen Keller I took this photo during my trip to Key West in February 2009. I dug it out today as a reminder that there&#8217;s always something more beyond the horizon.]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Resolutions for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2010 travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite hours are the 48-hours between the last day of the year and the first day of the year. As one door closes, another options, and with that kick in the ass comes more possibilities in a new year. Each year I move forward with a little intimidation, but a lot of excitement. 2009 [...]]]></description>
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