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		<title>Angel in white</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t until a few days later, when the whole ordeal was over, that I read the fine print on my ticket: &#8220;Seating is first-come, first-served. In case of insufficient seating capacity, passengers will be placed on succeeding schedules that have available seats.&#8221; Such a nice, polite, legalistic way to explain the hell I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kolumbus Kosmic Krismas Sillyness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wish you could be here to spend Christmas with our nutty nephews. In the meantime, enjoy these photos &#8212; they should give you a great belly laugh! (click to enlarge each photo)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/12/krismas-sillyness/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s on TV?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was riding in the back seat of my friend Donna&#8217;s car, gazing out the window at Amish farmhouses and rolling eastern Pennsylvania hills. Since Monday is washday, almost every farm had somber laundry hanging on the clotheslines, accented with a few pink child-sized blouses. Donna was telling us how the Amish had begun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/12/whats-on-tv/</link>
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		<title>Dream on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a young woman whose husband went away to sea, she waited patiently by the water. She grew old but never lost her beauty, and he never returned. She was a grand old wooden sailboat, agreed by all to be the Belle of the Boatyard. Everyone who had ever taken a stroll in the boatyard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/11/dream-on/</link>
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		<title>To touch the sky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just spent almost 3 weeks with my Dad in Florida. I&#8217;ve been wanting to write about him all this time, but what to say? Should I tell you about the books by Henry H. Schulte, Jr.? Or the newspapers he&#8217;s managed and edited? The thousands of students he&#8217;s taught and mentored? What about his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/11/to-touch-the-sky/</link>
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		<title>Random thoughts from the boatyard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent another week in the boatyard working on a few projects, and have a few observations to share. 1. I loved my first 3M full-face respirator to death, and just got a new one to love. This time it came equipped with peril-sensitive sunglasses.  I think anyone entering the boatyard for a long haulout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/11/random-boatyard-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Back in the saddle again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flutterby left the boatyard almost a year ago, and we started cruising. Sure, we did some projects underway like mounting the oarlocks on the dinghy. Sure, we did even more projects while we stayed at Vero Beach over the winter and spring&#8211;We sewed sails and bought and mounted solar panels. But we weren&#8217;t hauled out, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/10/back-in-the-saddle-again/</link>
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		<title>An air of wonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I promise, it will be worth it,&#8221; said my friend, Sparkle. I had to trust her, but waking up at 4:30 am was a severe test of our friendship. The beeping alarm didn&#8217;t phase Barry, who rolled over and stuck his head under the pillow. I got up in the dark, drank a sleepy cup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/10/an-air-of-wonder/</link>
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		<title>Keeping the flame alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, there comes a time when Burning Man ends and we have to pack our dusty camping gear and clothing. It&#8217;s not like packing up just any campsite. First, we have to take down and fold a shade structure that measures about 500 square feet, coiling dozens of dust-laden ropes that held it up. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/09/keeping-the-flame-alive/</link>
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		<title>Preparing to meet Irene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Irene is now heading directly for our boat, which is our only home. She&#8217;s just north of Morehead City, North Carolina: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/152235.shtml?gm_track#contents But we are three thousand miles away, on our way to Burning Man tomorrow. For the next 12 days, we&#8217;ll be incommunicado with 50,000 of our closest friends. What should we do? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2011/08/preparing-to-meet-irene/</link>
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