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		<title>The Most Miserable Bus in the World</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-most-miserable-bus-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving to Freetown reminded me that there was a whole sub-region to explore.  In September, I took three weeks off and traveled to Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, and Burkina Faso with Gunna.  I saw Timbuktu, rode on a cargo boat down the Niger, went hiking in Dogon Country, but this post isn’t about any of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=142&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Roads Lead to Freetown (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/all-roads-lead-to-freetown-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a two part post, the final chapter in the Duology, in which the blogger, having concluded final preparations for a road trip to Freetown, sees the fruits of his labor.  Rest assured that this trip in no way took place in July.  The blogger values you, the reader, too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=127&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Roads Lead to Freetown (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/all-roads-lead-to-freetown-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/all-roads-lead-to-freetown-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a two-part post on a trip to Freetown, Sierra Leone.  The first post discovers the blogger in preparation of the journey, written as though the trip has not already happened, which is a lie…  The second post (which will be posted after enough time has passed so as to give the impression that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=116&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Stockholm Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/musical-stockholm-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sir or Madam,
If you had the chance to make a difference, would you?
In Liberia, West Africa, many expatriates awake as early as 6am to the loud thumping of Akon songs outside their windows. Throughout the day, radio stations cycle through the same Akon songs. On the street, children sing the same Akon songs. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=107&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consider the Pirated DVD</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/consider-the-pirated-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 11:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four to five kids hawk pirated DVDs outside the grocery store. However, these aren’t your normal DVDs, these are behemoth 19-movies-on-one-DVD….DVDs. I’m not a scientist, so I’m not sure how they convinced 19 movies to squeeze onto one DVD. What I do know is that when I found out that it was possible to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=94&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Vacation Index</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/my-vacation-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have officially been in Liberia for over a year. I have tried to describe small aspects of life here that you may find interesting, but it’s often hard to get across the true depth of the experience here. Some people have asked me how I come up with the posts for this blog, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=89&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quality Worth Licking</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/a-quality-worth-licking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberia is hot, shaded with palm trees, and has breathtaking beaches. If ever there was a place meant to be ground zero for ice cream consumption, Liberia would be it. Liberians should be hapless, obese diabetics, waddling hourly to the corner ice cream stand, wheezing and gesturing at a picture to indicate how many scoops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=82&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Miserable Girl in the World</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/the-most-miserable-girl-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to choose my own for a bit and headed to Europe, a journey with maps, for a month. I took hot showers, partook in no stadium riots, saw no Tercels, it was fantastic – the hot shower part at least. I traveled by rail with my backpack. At an art museum in Berlin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=70&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beautiful Game</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/the-beautiful-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After surviving the Akonalypse you tend to think that you have a certain prowess, a deft ability to navigate poorly managed mass events.  
 
Hey Sean, we’re buying tickets for the Liberia-Gambia game. Want us to pick you up one?
 
Sure. How much?
 
We’re going to buy the $20 VIP seats.
 
Oooooooo. Weeeeellll. You see, I was thinking about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=61&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Entry</title>
		<link>http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/entry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My house has a ten foot wall around it.  Topped with snarled coils of barbed wire.  Four guards patrol the grounds with clubs.  How tough would it be to sneak into chez Sean?  One day, I drove up to my house in a big, white Carter Center SUV.  I smiled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com&blog=3307570&post=57&subd=journeywithoutmaps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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