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		<title>&#8216;First Course on Sustainable Tourism at Harvard University&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am thrilled to witness as this &#8220;industry&#8221; broadens and becomes &#8220;mainstream&#8221;&#8230; =) via &#8216;First Course on Sustainable Tourism at Harvard University&#8217;. Filed under: Eco Travel, Environment, Travel<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=209&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rains had stopped for a few hours on a Sunday in January.  I say “rains”, plural, because in a month we had four, five, or more storms roll across our skies; pouring rain, drizzling rain, steady rain.  There was a feeble suggestion of a sun break from my local weather forecast, but rain or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=203&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Look Up and Around Downtown Napa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally my main form of exercise has been walking.  Not a lot of hoopla about it, just a regular routine, two days a week with a good friend and an occasional outing with my hubby on the weekends.  With the riverfront development and promenade, one of my favorite walking destinations is downtown Napa.  Whether I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=194&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walking the River</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year I am dazzled by the autumn views along the Silverado Trail.  Breathtaking, awesome, splendiferous, are words that come to mind.  The gold, scarlet and green, with the late afternoon sun glowing through the vines bring a surge of gratitude to be able to live in this valley.  In November I was on my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=177&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handsome Kenya Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December of 2006 I traveled to East Africa with forty women from the U.S. and Canada, guided by a non-profit organization based in Northern California that works to fund humanitarian projects in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.  After the first week of visiting villages and projects, we were headed to a women’s conference in Bondo, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=173&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impossible Blue</title>
		<link>http://connectionjunction.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/168/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this one you are showing me off to Mom and the camera.  You are so proud to have me, your chubby little toddler, stuffed securely in your backpack, ready to roll, bouncing along on your shoulders. I don’t remember being that small up at Donner Lake.  But I remember several summer vacations there, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=168&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success from the Heart &#8211; The Heart of the Mendocino Coast, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arvis2009</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve visited the Mendocino coast nearly every year; as far back as I can remember.  My dad was passionate about the Northern California coast and the rugged shores of Mendocino.  We headed there on summer road trips, to brave the bracing winds and stinging-cold water and watch my mom comb the beaches for shells and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=157&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Between a geologist and a water witch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the greatest pleasure to visit Stagecoach Vineyards; way up the hillside of Soda Canyon Road.  From the office of Krupp Brothers Estate vineyards, you can see across their property to the top of the mountain side, where 500 acres of Stagecoach vineyards are planted.  This is high-elevation, hot, rugged landscape.   Jan Krupp [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=149&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roll and stroll through Hercules, CA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of friends and I have a joke about how you can take San Pablo Avenue all the way to Los Angeles.  Of course in truth it starts at the top of Contra Costa County and runs through all the cities along the San Pablo Bay, ending just a few blocks west of Lake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=144&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hop and a Skip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pretty quiet for the last month or so..blogwise.  There are several tweaks and turns I&#8217;ve had to make in my day to day life.  Kind of like our odd Napa Valley weather this summer; not what we expect.  &#8220;Should be&#8221;  warmer now;  why the cloudy mornings?  Life, weather and our minds&#8230;who knows what&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=connectionjunction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7584050&amp;post=138&amp;subd=connectionjunction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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