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	<description>a year of life in the Ashanti Kingdom...</description>
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		<title>Finding &amp; Creating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life isn&#8217;t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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		<title>Happiness &#8211; somewhere on the web</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.
Via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining travel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky — all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted a small sampling of photos from my trip-
Honduras
Guatemala
Mexico
Enjoy!
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		<title>May 2 &#8211; July 16 : A Recap in Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a friend ask me to keep track of this trip, so that one day he could do it all himself.
Honduras May 2 &#8211; 30: San Pedro Sula &#8211; Copan Ruinas &#8211; Tela &#8211; Tegucigalpa &#8211; La Ceiba &#8211; Roatan &#8211; Trujillo &#8211; Lago de Yojoa &#8211; San Pedro Sula
Guatemala May 31 &#8211; June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And North Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true that I am not home yet, but this trip will be over soon. I&#8217;ll sleep under my own sheets come Thursday. It&#8217;s my last day in Mexico City. I have spent it in a resto-cafe-bookstore, reading Japanese fiction (Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata) in English and drinking iced teas of yerba bueno. Tonight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather</title>
		<link>http://www.bessam.ca/2008/06/30/weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that the weather is always best on the day that you decide to leave?
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		<title>$31 MX = $3.04 CAD</title>
		<link>http://www.bessam.ca/2008/06/26/31-mx-304-cad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had the best grilled chicken of my life. I was heading for a taco stand, and then I was hit by the waft of a giant charcoal grill, roasting chickens. Quarters, halves, wholes&#8230; chickens. The cook asked, &#8220;¿Quieres pollo?&#8221; and I said &#8220;Si.&#8221; For $3.04 CAD I enjoyed a lunch of a quarter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot and Cold</title>
		<link>http://www.bessam.ca/2008/06/25/hot-and-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It feels so good to be hot again. I mean, sweating hot in thick, humid air. I am in the town of Palenque, deep in the Chiapan jungle. For the past few weeks &#8211; since Guatemala City, really &#8211; I have been cold. The weather in the mountains has been something akin to Southern Ontario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well into it now&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bessam.ca/2008/06/10/well-into-it-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been in Guatemala, on my own, for over a week now. It has taken me a few days to get into the spirit of traveling solo, and to adjust to things. I feel like Honduras is a country I know quite well, as a tourist and as an academic also. I know it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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