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	<description>A chronicle of two Oregon graduates who are living in the moment.</description>
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		<title>Finally packed up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Kniess</dc:creator>
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So it took me pretty much all day to get all of my stuff together, packed and mounted onto the bike. Wow, did my inexperience with motorcycle touring really show through today. I have a lot of stuff strapped to the back of my bike. You can see the final packing list, here.
We both ended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying connected</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Kniess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will be staying connected as often as possible while on the trip in order to keep this blog updated and share photos and stories of our adventure. However, it will be limited to the amount of battery power we have and the strength of our internet signal.
So being the geek that I am, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 days until blast off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Everson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was spent running errands, packing tents, installing GPS, checking batteries, rolling sleeping bags and finally starting to plan our route.  The maps are currently unfolded and we hover over them with highlighters ready to decide our fate. However no marks have been made and we still can not seem to decide where to go. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing and Packing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Everson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past three weeks I have been laying out everything that I think I am going to need. It has become quite the pile.  I am in the process now of weeding out what I do not need and what just will not fit.

Things worth noting amongst this massive pile:
*Plexus Plastic Cleaner:  This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 days and counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Kniess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are getting down to the wire preparing for the trip and have only 5 days remaing until we leave!
Unfortunately, I&#8217;m still waiting on my saddlebags and windscreen to come in the mail &#8211; hopefully when they arrive the pieces of the puzzle will all fall into place.
There is still a lot of work to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researching for the trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Kniess</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dale Borgeson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is certainly not the first, and definitely won&#8217;t be the last, trip of this kind. Folks have been touring the country on motorcycles for ages. So naturally, you would assume that there would be a lot of useful information on the internet concerning touring, routes, bike setup, gear selection, etc. Unfortunately, most of what [...]]]></description>
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