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	<description>A month spent in Sri Lanka - Colombo, Kandy, Dambulla, Sigiriya, Cricket Times, Perahera, Unawatuna, Ella, and more.  Meeting people, places and cultures.</description>
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		<title>The Memoir</title>
		<link>http://dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/the-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dates on these entries will make no sense. But below this paragraph the trip unfolds chronologically in order &#8211; from early August to early September (the pictures get better as the trip unfolds as well). Here&#8217;s a taste of what I was about to see:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=390&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In LAX airport. Let me get this straight – we are not allowed to bring in our own water bottles past the security gates to enter the boarding area. OK, Richard Reid and the crew did us no help there. Searching through a few convenient stores in the terminal I realize that all of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=104&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Transit via Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kind of lost a day with the travelling. Slept on and off, irregularly through two flights totaling 17 hours of sky time. I ate more food in a day and a half on those planes, without moving around too much, than I have in quite some time. I think I am good for the next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=107&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Day &#8211; Colombo, the capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I honestly didn&#8217;t know too much about Sri Lanka before arriving to the island. I figured that the country&#8217;s capital wouldn&#8217;t be full of twig huts, but wasn&#8217;t sure if I would encounter Tijuana, Mexico, Bangkok, or some othe type of city-venue. I was simply anxious to experience the scene&#8230;whatever it would be. The first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=408&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negombo Fish Market and the Tour Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today began our tour. But before that we went to a morning fisherman’s mecca in Negombo. About 1.5 hours outside of Colombo. We were in a haze from the night before when we left at 1AM this morning. Darting through the dark side streets in the fishing village, we caught up to a fairly large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=111&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kandy Times with Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drive out to Kandy involved a few stops – for cashews and the lady cussing at us, buying a leather stool product, meeting an extremely inviting family on the road (and learning how they make rice…by picking out off the shell-so labor intensive) and finally reaching the city at 1pm, and taking a nap. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=120&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8/17 Continuing on to Find More Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We didn’t make it out of the cemetery city (Kanday) until an hour after planned – about 8am. Said our goodbyes to the favorite servers (one of which was a Sri Lankan up and coming rapper – Jay and him got along brilliantly sharing verses), and off we were with Samantha the nice driver. Man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=125&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8/18 TreeHouse Times Arrive</title>
		<link>http://dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/818-treehouse-times-arrive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a true hotelier. But this trip is thankfully stretching my comfort zones with the different ambience. I’m surrounded with beautiful designs, comfort, and politeness. But the stuff I get the most out of a trip is not from the bed and room I sleep in. It is not the food I eat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=151&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Video from the TreeHouse Buddy Arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not so computer savvy, so this took me awhile &#8211; and I still couldn&#8217;t figure it out on wordpress. This video was taken as Mishka, his buddy Samantha and I were sitting lakeside having a bottle of Arrack. Mishka was infatuated with the camera&#8217;s video setting and seeing himself (he should be on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=198&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8/20 &#8211; Random People Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hotel room to the right &#8211; beautifully designed. SRI LANKAN NEWS COMMENTATORS are the worst I have ever seen. Between one girl looking down at her notepad for 95% of the time, being able to see the reflection of her figure on the TV screen camera left, and her partner who was not speaking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dominicdegrazier.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4351022&amp;post=211&amp;subd=dominicdegrazier&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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