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        <title>If you were a sentient human being ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[... 37 years ago today (a Saturday) - recall where you were?<br />
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Lot of Chardonnay under the bridge since then, eh. Have a nice day.]]></description>
        
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:28:26 +0000</pubDate>

        

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            <jf:body><![CDATA[... 37 years ago today (a Saturday) - recall where you were?<br />
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Lot of Chardonnay under the bridge since then, eh. Have a nice day.]]></jf:body>
        

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        <title>Caribbean Transfers Card math not making sense</title>
        <link>http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1850428</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I'm not debating whether or not this service could be very helpful if, as US citizen, you lose all your money in Cuba.  It seems like a good backup so I got one and I'm not regretting it yet.<br />...]]></description>
        
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>moroccodriver</jf:author>
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        <jf:dateToText>11 minutes ago</jf:dateToText>

        
            <jf:body><![CDATA[I'm not debating whether or not this service could be very helpful if, as US citizen, you lose all your money in Cuba.  It seems like a good backup so I got one and I'm not regretting it yet.<br />...]]></jf:body>
        

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        <title>Giving out gifts. What do you think?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When I go to developing countries, I tend to travel with many gifts that I give out to random locals. These range from postcards of home, to candy, to T-shirts, to money (local or American). I sometimes hand these out to people who I have spent time with...]]></description>
        
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:32:34 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Asqew</jf:author>
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        <jf:dateToText>6 hours ago</jf:dateToText>

        
            <jf:body><![CDATA[When I go to developing countries, I tend to travel with many gifts that I give out to random locals. These range from postcards of home, to candy, to T-shirts, to money (local or American). I sometimes hand these out to people who I have spent time with...]]></jf:body>
        

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        <title>The times they are a changin</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Many, many, years ago I travelled throughout Malaya as it was called then, and Thailand. Hardly any guest houses, hardly any tourists, hardly any tourist industry as such so I stayed in local houses with local familes. Now nearly forty years later and...]]></description>
        
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:43:04 +0000</pubDate>

        
            <author>jjd2428@hotmail.com</author>
        

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        <jf:author>JJD</jf:author>
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        <jf:dateToText>4 hours ago</jf:dateToText>

        
            <jf:body><![CDATA[Many, many, years ago I travelled throughout Malaya as it was called then, and Thailand. Hardly any guest houses, hardly any tourists, hardly any tourist industry as such so I stayed in local houses with local familes. Now nearly forty years later and...]]></jf:body>
        

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