<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628859050804942469</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:22:10.004-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Travel in Latin America</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Latin America Travels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09967669470906464428</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628859050804942469.post-9147351031408991941</id><published>2008-03-11T12:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T13:06:08.359-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Japanese craziness</title><content type='html'>I herd Hojung splash into the water below and I herd a gurgle and a few bubbles as he sank into the underworld. Good riddence. Just then, I had a random inspiration to go to Japan, but my concience named Mr. Price told me that I had to get there without using a motor. I left Hojung to die and walked to the coast of the Pacific ocean. Then I took over a year to trek up to the arctic circle where I borrowed a dogsled and a team of dogs. I had never dogsledded before, so I ran into a number of problems right away. First off, the first tree I came to, the dogs steered around it, but close to it, and I crashed into a low branch which tore me off my sled, and I was forced to chase after the dogs for miles before they finally got bored. I came to other problems like that around the way, but eventually I made it to northern Europe. I traveled south until I ran out of snow and then released the dogs to live freely on the tundra. Yeah, I know, that guy who I rented them from is going to be pretty angry, but oh well. Then I stole a horse from a mongolian farm and continued on southeast towards China. I reached the Coast with lots of police on my tail for entering South Korea illigally and jumped into the ocean. Immideately, I turned into a whale. I swam out to sea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6628859050804942469-9147351031408991941?l=travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/feeds/9147351031408991941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6628859050804942469&amp;postID=9147351031408991941' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default/9147351031408991941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default/9147351031408991941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2008/03/japanese-craziness.html' title='Japanese craziness'/><author><name>Latin America Travels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09967669470906464428</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628859050804942469.post-6178049445899761209</id><published>2007-10-30T07:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-30T07:50:26.338-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My cenote jumping</title><content type='html'>I am currently in Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. One fine day, I decided to go to a cenote, an underground river or well. I walked along a forest path almost overgrown with vines and other plants. There were no birds singing, no monkeys howling. I felt completely alone. The silence clung to me eerily like a wet blanket, seeming to suffocate me. Then I realized that all of that silence was just in my head. I heard the monkeys screaming and the birds tweeting. I reached the edge of the huge hole that led down to the cenote. I could see the water 70 feet below me, seeming to glow. Suddenly, I heard a "Huoo hoo hueey!", a thud and a thump. I looked behind me and saw Hojung lying at the base of a tree, looking dazed. He got to his feet unsteadily, laughing a little bit insanely. Then he began to stumble toward me, still laughing. I moved out of the way and he walked right into the hole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These blogs have helped me synthesize information because I get a chance to learn about the topic, then I can write about it which drives the information into my head.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6628859050804942469-6178049445899761209?l=travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/feeds/6178049445899761209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6628859050804942469&amp;postID=6178049445899761209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default/6178049445899761209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default/6178049445899761209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-cenote-jumping.html' title='My cenote jumping'/><author><name>Latin America Travels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09967669470906464428</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628859050804942469.post-3845663199142476503</id><published>2007-10-23T07:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-23T07:49:46.428-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I Discover the Secret of the Mystery Lines</title><content type='html'>Forty years in the Peruvian desert and I have finally found out how the lines were made. I have died, but then someone reincarnated me and I have had even more time to think.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6628859050804942469-3845663199142476503?l=travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/feeds/3845663199142476503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6628859050804942469&amp;postID=3845663199142476503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default/3845663199142476503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6628859050804942469/posts/default/3845663199142476503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://travelinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-discover-secret-of-mystery-lines.html' title='I Discover the Secret of the Mystery Lines'/><author><name>Latin America Travels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09967669470906464428</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628859050804942469.post-7215008928325474313</id><published>2007-09-18T07:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T07:11:15.780-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Travels in Latin America</title><content type='html'>I was flying into Cuzco, Peru over the Andes when our plane went through a cloud and, not seeing it coming, hit a glancing blow on a mountain, tearing off a wing. Our plane went spinning wildly through the air and came crashing down upside down twenty feet below in a huge snowbank at the edge of a cliff. When the dust cleared, I found myself hanging upside down from my seat belt, looking down at the ceiling. I blinked. Just then my seat belt ripped and I fell to the ceiling. I wasn't hurt, luckily. I sat up and heard groans from all around me. I stood up. the plane began to tip dangerously. I sat back down. I looked to my window. Luckily, it had shattered when we crashed. I carefully squeezed out of the window and onto the snowbank. The wind tugged at my ripped jacket as I stood up in the snow. A bit of goose down fluttered from one of its tears and disappeared in the swirling snow. I crawled back toward the plane, but instead of reentering, I crawled around it and looked over the cliff. I could see Machu Picchu in the distance, so close but so far away. I looked down over the cliff. there was a snowbank, but it was 30 feet below me. I hit the snow next to me in frustration- my biggest mistake. A torrent of snow twice my size, disturbed by my fist, came barreling down off the snowbank, smashing into me and sending me tumbling off the cliff. I was so caught up in the snow that it didn't feel like much when I hit the snowbank. When I realized where I was, I began to thrash violently. Luckily, I was facing upright and my head burst out of the snow. I breathed in deeply the cool, fresh air. I whipped out my cell phone and took a picture of the cliff I had just fallen off of and the tattered airplane. I clambered out onto the snowbank and stood up. I sunk waist deep in the snow. Suddenly, a small orange backpack fell to the ground beside me: a parachute. I looked up, and yelled in alarm. A second, this time, orange avalanche came cascading from the airplane on my head. Soon, I had dug myself out of this "parachute drift" and selected a parachute. 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