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		<title>My Travel Journal&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Holidays for me are not &#8220;2 weeks on the beach in the sun at some tourist resort&#8221;.    Instead, I prefer going somewhere that doesnt get any tourists, where you can    sit back, people watch and generally get lost in the local culture. What people   [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><meta content="John O'Duinn, ODuinn" name="keywords" />  <font size="+1" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font>Holidays for me are not &#8220;2 weeks on the beach in the sun at some tourist resort&#8221;.    Instead, I prefer going somewhere that doesnt get any tourists, where you can    sit back, people watch and generally get lost in the local culture. What people    do in &#8220;normal&#8221; life, when they dont know they&#8217;re being watched is always fascinating    to me. Ideally, the trip should also challenge me a bit, without scaring me    completely out of my wits, make me learn more about how other people think -    even sometimes makes me question my own assumptions&#8230; Its a beautiful world    out there and to quote the Mongolians, &#8220;It is better to have seen a place    once than to have heard of it a thousand times&#8221;.</p>
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I&#8217;m adding my travel logs here, as time permits&#8230;</p>
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<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2006costarica.htm">December, 2006: Costa Rica</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2006iceland.htm">September, 2006: Iceland</a></li>
<li><em>July, 2006: Amsterdam, Netherlands</em></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2006burningman.htm">August, 2006: Burning Man, Nevada, USA</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2006roundtheworld.htm">March-April, 2006: Round-the-world, including Maria &#038; Mark&#8217;s wedding</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2005sffire.htm">31st October, 2005: Fire in Mission District, San Francisco, USA</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2005burningman.htm">August, 2005: Burning Man, Nevada, USA</a><em> and </em> <a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2005fireeating.htm">FireEating class at The Crucible, Oakland, California</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2004australia.htm">September, 2004: Sydney &#038; The Great Barrier Reef, Australia</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2004olafwedding.htm">June, 2004: Olaf &#038; Bronwyn&#8217;s wedding, California, USA</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2003southpacific.htm">November, 2003: French Polynesia and Easter Island</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2003nyc.htm">September, 2003: New York City, New York, USA</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2002retreat.htm">July, 2002: Santa Cruz, California, USA</a></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/2002hawaii.htm">March, 2002: Maui, Hawaii, USA</a></li>
<li><em>March, 2001: Turks &#038; Caicos, British West Indies</em></li>
<li><em>November, 2000: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</em></li>
<li><em>October, 2000: Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia</em></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/1999brazil.htm">June, 1999: Sao Paulo, Iguacu and the Amazon, Brazil</a></li>
<li><!-- <a xhref="1999eclipse.htm" mce_href="1999eclipse.htm"     target="NewWindow"--><em>August, 1999: Solar Eclipse Chasing, Europe</em></li>
<li><a target="NewWindow" href="http://oduinn.com/journal/1998roadtrip.htm">February, 1998: RoadTrip USA</a></li>
<li><em>August, 1996: Sydney &#038; Canberra, Australia</em></li>
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<p><em>(By the way, all the images here are low-resolution thumbnails. If you see one of interest, you can click on the thumbnail will show a larger medium-resolution image that fits on a typical computer monitor, and should have reasonable download times. I have very-high resolution originals for all these, so if you see something you&#8217;d like in super-high resolution, or even printed, just drop me an email!)</em>
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