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	<description>Namaste</description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2013/01/i-dont-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know Hindi, or Marathi, but I learned a little, then took a bus somewhere they don&#8217;t speak it. I didn&#8217;t realize the bus wouldn&#8217;t go all the way to the station and wonder if the driver knew that before we left Mumbai or decided that later, en route. The man behind me was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers Paradise</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2013/01/writers-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darlene lowered herself over the side of the boat into the surf and I passed down her bags and leapt in beside her. It had been thirty six hours of travel, thru South Korea, a night in the Bangkok airport, catching the first flight south to Krabi and finally this long tail, outboard motor. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ganesh, Our Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Elephant Cloud wakes from a long slumber. When our story left off, we were separated in the remotes of Ethiopia. Me on the side of the road with an empty tank of gas, Darlene in a hospital with no running water. Being separated from your partner in remote parts of the world is one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeti Airlines</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/06/yeti-airlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2008, we left for Everest in a cramped jet built for 15, including the crew, and endured a harrowing 35 minutes to Lukla Airport. Built on an incline, the 900ft mountain slope runway decelerates the plane to a screeching halt and within an hour, it is reloaded, circling around for takeoff. The nose lowers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Last meal</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/last-meal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Time? Second Time? Yes. Second time, we nod. About ten minutes from the airport is a lesser known hotel that offers all the amenities at affordable price. We stopped on the way in and we stopped on the way out. Down the street, we returned to an outdoor restaurant which treated us well the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Voted off the island</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/voted-off-the-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gentle tide and waveless beaches. Perfect: a handful of days on warm, sunny Thai beaches with bowls of green curry, fresh coconut shakes, and the occasional beer Chang.   No tours, schedules, or agendas. Just a gentle jungle breeze on the beach.  But the time has come, I’ve been voted off the Island. I’m heading home.]]></description>
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		<title>Chitwan National Park</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/chitwan-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came to see the rhinos and we trekked thru grasslands and jungle forest to find them. In the grasses, which are higher than me at this time of year, the guide said we’d notice movement of large animals by the rustling. Yet it was the still grass of animals lying in wait that concerned [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I really, really want to see a rhino</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/i-really-really-want-to-see-a-rhino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten bucks for the tourist bus, luxury non-stop with air con. Or, maybe, no aircon. And maybe just one stop: to kick us off. The students were pissed. Three months ago the government promised them books, pens, and paper. Three months later, they still had none and it was the week before exams. So they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/celebrity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Habelar was the first man to summit Everest without oxygen. He did it with legendary climber, Reinhold Messner, and the night before our first attempt to fly home, we showed him how to play pool. He’s a much better mountaineer. The next morning, after everyone else flew out of Lukla, we sat in an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Popcorn at fourteen thousand feet</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/popcorn-at-fourteen-thousand-feet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting down is the hardest part and we were aggressive. So much so, we broke our Sherpa and had to pay him double that day. On the second descent day we nursed our ailments from the previous day’s twelve hour hike with dal baat and chang (the rice wine). We drank a lot of chang [&#8230;]]]></description>
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