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	<title>Rhythm Connection &#187; Yucatan</title>
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		<title>Bonampak, Laxchilán and Rio Usumacinta</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 6 AM I waited along with a few other people, for the van that was supposed to pick us up for a trip deeper into the rainforest. There were three Mexicans and a Dane, and we chatted now and then until the van arrived, fifty minutes late. Before we boarded I reserved a room at Jungle [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mérida, la música, and life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valladolid was hard to leave, but I needed and wanted to shed the car that seems both useful and a hindrance. Once again I entered the cuota highway, but this time with a purpose. I had to get to Mérida in a hurry to make the rental deadline, and with almost no cars on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ek Balam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoroughly enjoying Valladolid my first evening there, with live music as part of a Oaxaca festival filling the small square in front of the hostel, I decided to stay a second night. That allowed me to return to Ek Balam rested, early in the morning. I had been told that the gate would open at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Soloing, Más o Menos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I sent Corey towards Alaska, and yesterday we bid farewell to Nico. The transition to solo traveler has begun, and it began with me regretting that I sent the Yucatan guide book back with Corey. After checking him in, I began the drive to my destination, Ek Balam, an interesting Maya site that other [&#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>
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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>Arrived. Reclined.</title>
		<link>http://rhythmconnection.org/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short post to simply say we have arrived at our first destination, Isla Holbox, and to test the capability to update this site via an iPhone (thus being able to ditch a heavy laptop for the duration of the trip). After a long flight from Alaska to Cancun, Corey and I met [&#8230;]]]></description>
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