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	<title>Harry&#039;s bike blog, from Alaska to Ushuaia &#187; Washington</title>
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		<title>Day 135–140, 23-28 Nov 2008: Metal Cowboys, cycling in Portland, giving thanks with an old friend and to the beach…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was hard to say goodbye the next day, but we had another interesting date to get to that evening After arriving late at night in Portland, we ended up in the house of a well-known cyclist: Joe Kurmaskie, aka The Metal Cowboy.]]></description>
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Before we headed over to Portland, we had to visit an old friend we had never met! I had known MC &amp; Dave since years by email &amp; via the 7summits.com forum, but we had never met in person. It was great to finally meet them and we stayed longer than planned as they took [...]
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		<title>Day 124 –133, 12 –21 Nov 2008: Washington State: Couchsurfing with friendly people from Seattle to …Vancouver?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Just kidding, officer Kyle Bear was nice and interested in our trip, see his picture here on 1000 Americans) Ivana &#38; It never really cleared up and it was either raining or threatening to rain and the wind was not very helpful to get us up the steep (rolling) hills We missed our exit and again ended up at the I5, which was not so bad at all as in the dark, it is probably safe to ride the 7ft shoulder on the highway than the non-existent shoulder on a narrow and winding country road to Castle Rock.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We suddenly received an email.
Hello Harry,
Read your profile. Would love to meet if possible.
How much longer are you in the Seattle area?
Samir

We called him and found out that Samir, his wife Madalyn &amp; daughter Danielle were living in Bellevue, 25km east of Seattle. We had actually planned to leave Seattle on the west side, but [...]
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		<title>Day 106–123, 25 Oct–12 Nov 2008: Hikes, Halloween &amp; Hope in Seattle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My back was starting to hurt again and as my diclophenac pills were finished and I could not get more without a prescription, I switched to an Ibuprofen-rich diet It was a bit depressing to see how quickly the days shortened and as we also lost an hour in daylight savings time, we had effectively lost 2 hours of usable daylight in the weeks we were in Seattle, which would make the next parts much harder as we had not much flexibility, time wise.]]></description>
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First of all: did you know that if you click on the images in the posts, that a larger version will appear on top of the page, all automagically? try it, it is quite cool (pictures need some time to load as they are now 1000pixels wide!).
We had planned to stay maybe a week in [...]
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		<title>Day 98-105: 17-24 Oct 2008: ferries &amp; friendly people, from Vancouver, CA, to Seattle, USA via Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Harry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Especially for all biketravellers, he told me his secret recipe: Very Secret Old Fashioned Peanut Butter recipe: Ingredients: - Peanuts Tools: - Peanut cruncher Instructions: - Fill top of Peanut cruncher with organic peanuts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[17 October 2008: Vancouver to Victoria, 75 km
The weather gods did not want us to leave Vancouver, maybe they thought I should rest more. Wind and rain pounded on us when we made our way to the ferries in the Southwestern point of the mainland of Canada. we had taken the monorail East first as [...]
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