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		<title>Ahhh&#8230; The Magic of Buenos Aires</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES &#8211; Our first few days in Argentina have been highlighted by friends, food, lack of sleep, and a desperate quest to acquire small change.
We arrived Sunday morning and took a circuitous taxi ride to the home of my friends Diego and Paola. Paola was my Spanish teacher for a couple of months when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Argentina&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=173</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE &#8211; Back to Argentina? What? If you read the last post on this blog you might think I had never left. Of course you might also notice that the last post was well over a year ago. So first let me bring you up to speed on what has happened since that last entry&#8230;
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strangeness of Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=138</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES – Down here in Argentina we get a lot of political news, and just like in the U.S. one of the hot topics is the upcoming presidential election. One candidate in particular is getting a lot of press. You&#8217;ll probably figure out pretty quickly who I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;
 She&#8217;s a woman, and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captain Marielle and the Raft Race</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=81</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES – This is my friend Marielle. No, not the monkey, the other one. You may have read about her in some of my previous posts, but if not allow me to introduce her.
I met Marielle in Iquitos, Peru, last year when I went there for the Great Amazon River Raft Race. Marielle is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sign Above my Elevator</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=145</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES — There is a small sign above the elevator in the building where I live in Buenos Aires. Translated from Spanish, it reads as follows:
&#8220;There being stairs, management is not responsible for any accidents that occur as a result of using the elevator.&#8221;
I guess you can get away with stuff like that when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patagonia: Argentina Style</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=126</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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Moon over Fitz Roy
EL CHALTÉN, ARGENTINA – Patagonia. The word conjures up images of far-off, exotic, fairy-tale lands. Most maps don&#8217;t even label Patagonia as a place, lending it an air of mystery. So, just in case you don&#8217;t know exactly where Patagonia is, that&#8217;s OK.

Patagonia is the large region that covers the southern cone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Patagonia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EL CALEFATE, ARGENTINA â€“ I have been moving pretty fast lately and haven&#8217;t had time to write.Â Â I shall attempt to summarize theÂ last few weeks in justÂ four sentences.
OK, excessively long run-on sentences without punctuation.Â 
(try not to take a breath as you read&#8230;)
After leaving Bolivia I headed south through the Atacama Desert in Chile and met with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got Salt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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UYUNI, BOLIVIA – Got salt?  This is a photo of me standing on top of over 4,000 square miles of salt on the Salar de Uyuni in southwestern Bolivia. What the heck is a salar, you ask?
It&#8217;s basically a giant salt flat.  And this one, in Bolivia, is the largest in the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mines of Potosi: Mountain that Eats Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[POTOSI, BOLIVIA — I struggle along on my hands and knees as the oppressive heat pushes in on me, pausing every few meters to take measured breaths through my mask. Thick dust chokes the air and I am only too aware that it contains particles of silica, asbestos, and arsenic. My world is reduced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Found Jesus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=102</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA â€“ I found Jesus.  It wasn&#8217;t hard to find Him since this is the tallest statue of Christ in the world.  At 33 m (about 40 m if you include the pedestal) it&#8217;s just a few centimeters taller than the famous statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro.  The statue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A special post for my friend Marcia&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=35</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUSCO, PERU â€“ My friend Marcia is an alpaca nut. She and her husband Ron even have a small alpaca farm, The Perkiomen Creek Ranch, just outside of Philadelphia. In fact, if you ever find yourself in the Philadelphia area give her a ring and Iâ€™ll bet she would love to give you a tour. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu, Incorporated</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUSCO, PERU â€“ Well, the title of this column probably gives you an idea of what I thought of Machu Picchu, the famous â€œLost City of the Incas.â€ I wish I could say it was an amazing, magical experience, the highlight of my travels through Peru, but I canâ€™t. Sure, I had a great time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Note about my Trip</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=109</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIMA, PERUÂ Â â€“ Greetings from Lima, capitol of Peru.Â  I have been on the road for about five months now, and I&#8217;m starting to get emails from people saying &#8220;Hey, I thought you were only going to be gone for six months!Â  What&#8217;s the plan?&#8221;
Well, it seems that somewhere along the line the plan changed.Â  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year at the Beach</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUANCHACO, PERU â€“ What better way to celebrate the New Year than at the beach? After spending the better part of two months in the mountains I was ready for some warm weather, so along with my new friends Cedd and Emma from the U.K. I decided to head for the oceanfront town of Huanchaco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Claus Found Me</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=32</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHACHAPOYAS, PERU â€“ I arrived in Chachapoyas on Christmas Eve, following two brutal days of travel through the boondocks of Ecuador and Peru. (Read about it here.) Exhausted beyond belief and not knowing anyone in town, I was fully prepared for a lonely Christmas highlighted by an early night&#8217;s sleep. But somehow the spirit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing the Border the Hard Way</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: I will add photos to this post as soon as I can find a computer capable of reading the DVD they are stored on!)
CHACAPOYAS, PERU â€“ â€œAre you sure you want to go that way?â€ asked the woman at the tourism office for the third time.
The fact that you keep asking me the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers of Ecuador</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=110</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VILCABAMBA, ECUADORÂ â€“ Ecuador is a treasure chest of plant life and has one of the most diverse ecosystems of any country in the world.Â  In particular, the flowers here never cease to amaze me.Â  I&#8217;m not a botanist and have absolutely no idea what most of these flowers are, so I&#8217;m going to challenge some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiestas de Quito</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=30</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUITO, ECUADOR â”€ This holiday wouldn&#8217;t even be legal in the United States.
I&#8217;m talking about Fiestas de Quito, a city-wide festival to celebrate the founding of Quito by the Spanish on December 6, 1534. The official holiday falls on the 6th, but Fiestas de Quito kicks off on November 30, beginning a week-long period of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Kids of Iquitos</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=29</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IQUITOS, PERU â€“ Over the past few weeks I have gotten to know quite a few people here in Iquitos, including a number of the street kids. Many visitors consider them to be pests, nuisances, troublemakers, or even criminals, but the reality is that most of these kids were born into unfortunate circumstances. Many are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Amazon River Raft Race – Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=28</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(To read Part I of this article click here)
Day two. I wake up early with the idea that I can make a few improvements to our raft, but quickly realize that it&#8217;s a hopeless cause; we simply have a crappy raft. I discover that a few of the Peruvian teams are dropping out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Amazon River Raft Race – Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IQUITOS, PERU – Like many great adventures, this one begins over beer. Specifically, the local Ecuadorian brew called Pilsener. There are no thoughts of Tarantulas. Or piranhas. Or 40-hour bus rides, corrupt policemen, sugarcane alcohol, broken bones, lightning, or intestinal parasites. Not yet, at least. That will come later. For now there is just adventure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nariz del Diablo</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIOBAMBA, ECUADOR â€“ In the early 1900&#8217;s a railway line, the Ferrocarril Transandino, was constructed from Guayaquil on the Ecuadorian coast to Quito in the mountains. The line made it to just below the town of AlausÃ­ when builders encountered an almost vertical wall of rock known as the Nariz del Diablo (the Devilâ€™s Nose). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimborazo: World&#8217;s Highest Volcano</title>
		<link>http://www.accidentalexplorer.com/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIOBAMBA, ECUADOR â€“ I arrived in Riobamba to find ash on the ground from the recent eruption of nearby VolcÃ¡n Tungurahua. Every time a gust of wind comes along it kicks up clouds of ash, which subsequently become grit between your teeth, turns your eyes red, and generally makes things unpleasant. Many storefronts have heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rappelling Down Waterfalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having completed my Spanish course in Quito Iâ€™m preparing for the next phase of my trip â€“ whatever that might be. Eager to practice my Spanish skills, as well as to escape the noise and pollution of Quito, I joined some language school friends and headed for the cloud forest town of Mindo, about two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quito: Alpine to Tropics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Baskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS EVERY GUIDEBOOK WARNS YOU ABOUT IN QUITO IS THE ALTITUDE. At 2850m (9350 ft) it is the second highest capital city in the world, and I expected to feel a little breathless here. To my pleasant surprise I have never noticed the thin air. Given the altitude, you might expect [...]]]></description>
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