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		<title>I&#8217;m Importing Books to Madagascar; It&#8217;s Driving Me Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a close friend/family member of mine, I probably bugged you almost a year and a half ago to donate to a huge project aimed at getting 22,000 books from America to 17 different schools and libraries in Madagascar. I really appreciate everyone who helped donate money to the project and I think &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/im-importing-books-to-madagascar-its-driving-me-crazy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1947&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I first noticed them last Wednesday when I was fetching water at mid-day. The sky was bright and cloudless, and tiny shadows began to flit past in the dirt. Since nothing had taken a swan dive into my head, I initially thought they were the shadows of a flock of tiny birds – not &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1934/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1934&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace Corps volunteers have a reputation for being a little off-kilter. Newbies arrive, meet more seasoned volunteers and think &#8220;wow, they&#8217;re a little weird.&#8221; The seasoned volunteers shake their heads and say &#8220;don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;ll grow in to it.&#8221; Exhibit A: A PCV dancing with a bunch of pousse-pousse drivers and street kids: Just another &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1918/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1918&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1916/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Skipped Beat: Tuesday Travel Snapshot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bringing you a travel snapshot from the Beat Nomad archives each and every Tuesday&#8230; &#8230; except for last Tuesday because I was having some internet problems. To continue with today&#8217;s post: I wish I had better pictures of Lugano, Switzerland. Even though I&#8217;ve ended up in the tiny Swiss town just north of Milan several &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1916/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1916&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1906/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to say it, but I&#8217;ve gotten used to the Antsirabe market&#8217;s smell. It&#8217;s a weird combination of muck and old produce, rice being cooked, and charcoal. The meat section has a totally different stench. Even after two years, I scrunch my face and try not to breathe it in as a walk quickly &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1906/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1906&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1897/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bringing you a travel snapshot from Beat Nomad&#8217;s travel archives each and every Tuesday I recently found a blog describing Diego Suarez (the northernmost city in Madagascar, known as Antsiranana in Malagasy) as a &#8220;small fishing village&#8221;. It made me giggle a little, but then again, everything is relative. It&#8217;s small by western standards and &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/06/07/1897/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1897&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mailman, Stop Creeping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 06:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Impatient Mailman, While I greatly appreciate that you were concerned enough about me getting my postcard to come to my house and deliver it, you chose one of the worst moments to do so. I had literally just stripped down to take a shower when you knocked on my front door, meaning I wasn’t &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/05/13/dear-mailman-stop-creeping/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1901&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Skipped Beat in Krabi, Thailand: Tuesday Travel Snapshot</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/05/07/a-skipped-beat-in-thailand-tuesday-travel-snapshot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bringing you a travel snapshot from Beat Nomad&#8217;s archives each and every Tuesday: I had a serious space-cadet moment when I was in Ko yao noi, a small island about an hour&#8217;s boat ride from Krabi, while traveling around Thailand last September. I said goodbye to my friends, packed up my bag, got on a &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/05/07/a-skipped-beat-in-thailand-tuesday-travel-snapshot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1890&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why Antsirabe is Madagascar&#8217;s Best Urban Destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy May, blogosphere. I’m sure for most of you it means a thawing out of the winter that lingered in the northern hemisphere, but for my part, I’ve been camping out in the same pair of sweatpants and light sweater-down-jacket combination for the past three days. Normally, I hate cold weather, but somebody imported maple &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/05/02/5-reasons-why-antsirabe-is-madagascars-best-urban-destination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1871&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Skipped Beat in Vienna: Tuesday Travel Snapshot</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/30/a-skipped-beat-in-vienna-tuesday-travel-snapshot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Skipped Beat: Tuesday Travel Snapshot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karlskirche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Pauls Cathedral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bringing you a travel snapshot from Beat Nomad’s archives each and every Tuesday The autumn after I finished college, broke and still not ready for a &#8216;real job&#8217; (I guess I&#8217;m still not), I hitchhiked from Geneva to Vienna, where this photo was taken. Even though I was armed with a less-than-stellar point and shoot, &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/30/a-skipped-beat-in-vienna-tuesday-travel-snapshot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1864&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Blogging in the Third World is Frustrating Business</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/28/how-blogging-in-the-third-world-is-frustrating-business/</link>
		<comments>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/28/how-blogging-in-the-third-world-is-frustrating-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Nomadisms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when, back in the day, you’d start up your dial-up internet, most likely with AOL, and your computer would make these obnoxious whrrring sounds, a long, high-pitched eeeeee-rrrrrr, and maybe at some point your family would yell at you to get off the internet because they needed to use the phone? Remember how tediously &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/28/how-blogging-in-the-third-world-is-frustrating-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1832&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dining and Hiking on La Reunion&#8217;s Active Volcano</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/26/dining-and-hiking-on-la-reunions-active-volcano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Nomadisms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outside Madagascar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creole Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Reunion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Le QG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piton de la Fournaise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volcano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously guys, I’ve already gabbed on enough about La Reunion, but want to point out two more highlights of the trip, Le Piton de la Fournaise, an active volcano, and a cozy restaurant called Le QG before returning to posts about Madagascar. Next week, look for some colorful photos I’m eager to share depicting the &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/26/dining-and-hiking-on-la-reunions-active-volcano/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1840&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Skipped Beat: Tuesday Travel Snapshot [Washington]</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/23/a-skipped-beat-tuesday-travel-snapshot-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/23/a-skipped-beat-tuesday-travel-snapshot-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Skipped Beat: Tuesday Travel Snapshot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outside Madagascar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crescent Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bringing you a travel snapshot from Beat Nomad’s archives each and every Tuesday. This photo was taken at Lake Crescent on a trip to the Olympic National Park shortly after I moved to Seattle. A couple of medical students from Arkansas that I met at a hostel and I were staying at Lake Crescent Lodge, &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/23/a-skipped-beat-tuesday-travel-snapshot-washington/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1829&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rappeling Through Waterfalls in Cilaos, La Reunion</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/18/rappeling-through-waterfalls-in-cilaos-la-reunion/</link>
		<comments>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/18/rappeling-through-waterfalls-in-cilaos-la-reunion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adventure Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canyoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cilaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Reunion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about a few of my first impressions in La Reunion, but I haven&#8217;t even mentioned the best part of the trip: Canyoning in Cilaos! Before arriving in La Reunion, neither Chip nor I had ever done canyoning before, but while doing research on La Reunion I came across a website boasting &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/18/rappeling-through-waterfalls-in-cilaos-la-reunion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1813&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Skipped Beat: Tuesday Travel Snapshot [Fianaratsoa]</title>
		<link>http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/16/a-skipped-beat-tuesday-travel-snapshot-fianaratsoa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beatnomad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fianaratsoa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Betsileo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malagasy People]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bringing you a travel snapshot from Beat Nomad&#8217;s archives each and every Tuesday. This week&#8217;s photo was taken on the RN7 just south of Fianaratsoa, somewhere near Anja National Park, in the wine-making region of Madagascar (although, trust me, it&#8217;s terrible &#8212; I once got drunk after drinking an entire bottle because I was convinced &#8230; <a href="http://beatnomad.com/2013/04/16/a-skipped-beat-tuesday-travel-snapshot-fianaratsoa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beatnomad.com&#038;blog=13003008&#038;post=1805&#038;subd=beatnomad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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