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		<title>An evening ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fall may be arriving a bit ahead of schedule here in Utah, but it sure is pretty.]]></description>
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		<title>Tour of Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went up to Park City yesterday not realizing it was the penultimate stage of the Tour of Utah. We were there in time to catch the pro race, and so got to see the big boys ride insanely fast on a narrow criterium course around downtown Park City. Utah native Jeff Louder took the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children of the light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the immense fold of Machu Picchu, our tour guide, Edgar, was explaining the beliefs of his Incan ancestors and how they were manifested through the ancient civilization&#8217;s greatest archeological triumph. The temple of the virgins of the sun, the sacrificial altars, the great solar clocks. They worshiped the sun, he said. They were people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Along the Inca Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In four days we traveled well over 50 miles under our own power to get from a mountain pass at 14,500ft. above the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu. Some of that was on the original Inca Trail, a sort of interstate highway for people who must&#8217;ve been half mountain goat. The photos aren&#8217;t great &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every Day Is Dancing Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: I&#8217;m no longer in Peru, but since the U.S. provides a fast(er) computer and consistent internet access, I&#8217;m finishing up these last few posts from home. Peruvian taxi drivers are a strange breed. Part Evel Knievel, part Confucius, these guys (I did not once see a woman driving one) seem to dispense white-knuckle moments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacsayhuaman (Sexy Woman) Ruins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cuzco&#8217;s most impressive ruins lie just about a 25 min. walk up the ridge from the main square. Called Sacsayhuaman (Pronounced Sexy Woman, seriously) the temple doubled as a military installation, which is apparent from the remaining fortress-like walls that weren&#8217;t dismantled for building supplies by the invading Spaniards. Also had a beautiful day in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am but lint in the world&#8217;s navel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Inca legend, Cuzco is the navel of the world, so named because it is the planet&#8217;s &#8220;center&#8221;. After airline delays and an unscheduled stop in the small mountain town of Arequipa, we arrived in Cuzco around lunchtime and set to work seeing the sites. After the smog and congestion of Lima it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huaca Pucllana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 200 yards from the hostel I&#8217;ve been staying at here in Lima, there is a huge early Incan pyramid and archeological site that&#8217;s been under excavation since the early 1980s. Built between 200 and 7900 AD, the complex was most likely a textile and religious center for the coastal-dwelling Limans. For many years, development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tomb of Francisco Pizzaro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my first day in Peru, we nearly got caught i a construction workers&#8217; strike,,survived death-defying taxi rides and visited the tomb of Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizzaro in the cathedral in Lima Centro. It was an incredible church, originally built as a small chapel in 1541 and expanded on until its completion in 1622. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Cup&#8230;not just for people.</title>
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