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		<title>A day of extremes</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/10/a-day-of-extremes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started waking up under the road and ended camping in a far flung desert in a remote part of far Western China.  As with the journey, it was what happened in between that defined it. The previous afternoon, I had rolled my sleeping mat out in the confines of a concrete culvert.  It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Familiarity</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/10/familiarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My return to China was flooded with a kind of reverse culture shock.  The dirty, run down city of Kathmandu had cows shitting in the street; the rivers ran full of rubbish; chaotic traffic spilled in all directions around every corner and intersection.  The tangled cars often sang in a symphony of horns.  In contrast, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi Belly</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/08/delhi-belly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=3041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[India was a dead end.  I had the world to cycle and nowhere to go.  Sure I could have flown directly to Iran but, apart from contravening the low emissions lifestyle that I&#8217;m trying to encourage through the Expedition, it would be self defeating. Besides, where was the adventure in that?  Things very seldom go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting against a surging tide of pessimism &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/08/fighting-against-a-surging-tide-of-pessimism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/08/fighting-against-a-surging-tide-of-pessimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=3035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had exhausted just about every option.  A bureaucratic roadblock stretched from the Indian Ocean, 3500 kilometres northward, all the way along the mighty Indus River to the highest peaks of the Himalayas.  This was a hurdle that, no matter how much strength I could muster, would be difficult to overcome. There&#8217;s only one way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeping Generalisations</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/07/sweeping-generalisations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/07/sweeping-generalisations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the prerequisites for visiting India should be a question such as, “Are you prepared?”  It would be a good question.  “For what?” they would naturally reply, to which there is no answer worth explaining.   If you say “Yes”, you get the visa. &#160; India needs to be felt to be experienced.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on me. Shame on you.</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/07/shame-on-me-shame-on-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When the guy pulled a gun and placed it on the table, I snapped!  &#8220;Is that a gun?&#8221;, I demanded, looking him in the eye.  &#8220;Did you just pull a gun on me?&#8221;,  I demanded again as I bent over the counter to confirm my suspicions. Our previously courteous misunderstanding was reaching a climax.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor, Doctor give me the news!</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/07/doctor-doctor-give-me-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/07/doctor-doctor-give-me-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Early one morning, almost a month after Goa, I went to see another doctor at a local hospital about the continuing stomach and intestinal problems I was having.  It was a small clinic and yet crowded with people coming and going, both sick and seemingly healthy. There was little order, but somehow through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the trenches!</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/06/to-the-trenches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/06/to-the-trenches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Fast forward a month meeting old friends in Goa and things were still touch and go with my health.  I tried to let my body take care of itself but, even after a month resting on palm tree-lined southern beaches, feeling better one week then miserable the next, it was still not recovering.  Eventually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all about food &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/06/its-all-about-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/06/its-all-about-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian kitchens are dirty, very dirty, especially those that I frequented on the road. Rats, bugs, flies, mice, dogs, cats and even monkeys are frequent visitors to the places I ate at. Bodily cleanliness is highly valued in India but, when you&#8217;re up to your eyeballs in filth all around, then it feels as though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ganges Fever</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/05/ganges-fever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/05/ganges-fever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[India is as diverse as its people. The differences are at times often staggering.  It is a land of extremes, a land in a slow moving flux.  The more I came to know India, the less I understood. Trying to reduce, divide and compare is a task that seems only to disparage meaning.  The people [...]]]></description>
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