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		<title>Deep in the Lacondon forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chambo stopped every fifty meters to talk about specific trees or customs of his people. He carried himself with dignity and a sophisticated charm that encouraged his audience to ask many questions. I listened while lagging behind to keep an eye out for birds. It quickly became apparent that birding was going to be no [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Palenque</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I awoke when the bus stopped. It was pouring rain and first light was having trouble breaking through the thick clouds. It was 6 AM and the overnight bus had arrived in Palenque, and I was slightly disoriented from a cold, poor night&#8217;s sleep during the trip. Looking out at the sheets of warm rain, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mérida to Calakmul to Bacalar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my goals for the eleven days in Yucatan with the boys was adventure beyond sitting on beaches. I had read about an enormous Mayan ruin site deep in the tropical forest, Calakmul, which had only been discovered in the 1980s. It did not diminish the allure to also read about the incredible bird [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Decibel Challenges</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The balcony shakes slightly from the throbbing bass of the music that fills the plaza. We are in the  Hostel Zocalo on the central plaza of Mérida. The colossal, old, old cathedral sticks above the verdant trees, two black vultures court overhead, and social flycatchers congregate above the hundreds of kids and parents watching an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring, or at least the month of April, is a good time to vacate southcentral Alaska, when both snow and roads decompose, and inevitable snowstorms dash the hopes of everyone who believes that spring has arrived. Leaving in March means missing rapidly increasing, unbelievably warm sunshine, and perfect snow conditions for skiing and snow-biking. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
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