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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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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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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>Lady Luck</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/09/lady-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Everything happens for a reason.  At least, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come to believe.  Actually, without trying to sound arrogant, I don&#8217;t actually believe I sort of &#8216;know&#8217;.  That&#8217;s not to say it makes things any easier; it&#8217;s not part of any great philosophy to simply become apathetic.  In fact it&#8217;s quite the opposite.  Perhaps [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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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>
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		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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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>Happiness is.</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/04/happiness-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/04/happiness-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first night in Bhutan was spent among tall broad pines.  A small grassed area on the edge of the road provided the setting for a picturesque forest and place to rest.   I rode into the late evening and managed to find this beautiful spot at about the time my body was willing to pull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, hope and a new change</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/03/life-hope-and-a-new-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/03/life-hope-and-a-new-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the garbage in Kathmandu gets picked up; sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. Sometimes power is available throughout the day; sometimes it&#8217;s not.  Sometimes life plays out the way you want; perhaps more often than not, it doesn&#8217;t. In recent years the small Himalayan country of Nepal has experienced turbulent times. Only six years ago, a decade-long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Roof of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/12/on-the-roof-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/12/on-the-roof-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a joyful event to reach the Geermu – Lhasa highway.  I could have kissed the smooth asphalt.  We&#8217;d spent the last week cycling alone in a vast plateau that appeared to never end.  The day before reaching the highway we managed to set up camp moments before a thunderstorm front rolled through.  During [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to Lhasa</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/08/the-key-to-lhasa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/08/the-key-to-lhasa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cyclestrongman.com/?p=2625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting into Tibet is tricky business.  Actually, it&#8217;s not so tricky if you have money, something which I needed to spread very thinly for the long journey ahead.  I learned the difference between what I actually needed (which turned out to be very little) and what I wanted (which was to  become less and less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ugly side of tourism</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/07/the-ugly-side-of-tourism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/07/the-ugly-side-of-tourism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luang Prabang was an interesting place.  The town is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and, cycling around, it was easy to understand why.  The city has a charm all of  its own.  It was also easy to see why the UN was contemplating taking the title from them as it was changing very quickly. It seemed [...]]]></description>
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