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		<title>CT in &#8220;A Distintive Style&#8221; Magazine!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crooked Trails is featured in the newest issue of A Distintive Style magazine!
&#8220;Our Holiday issue is full of Inspiration from cancer surviors, to children with Down syndrome that have a valuable lesson for us all. “Gifts with a Legacy,” celebrities that are giving back, including Susan Sarandon, Fran Drescher, Ed Asner, Sting and Trudie, Allana [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=466&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Date for Venice is Sinking!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Party with a purpose is back!
Don’t miss the best Carnival party in Seattle!
Check out Photos from last year&#8217;s event!
Tickets go on sale Nov. 1 &#8211; stay tuned on this blog or on Facebook for ticket info!
$50 Early Bird price until Jan, 31st
$60 After January 31st
LIVE Performers include:
Darek Mazzone- KEXP World Pop DJ
Geoffrey Castle; violinist extraordinaire
Opening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=442&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crooked Trails Autumn Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://crookedtrails.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/crooked-trails-autumn-newsletter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome everyone to our Autumn newsletter
Every year, about this time, as I watch the leaves turn colors and fall to the ground I cannot help but think of our friend Moi, the Haorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon. During a visit to Seattle one autumn, Moi and I drove along a particularly colorful tree lined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=423&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telling a Tale from Kenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crooked Trails participant Christine Frederickson returns to the Maasai village of Merrueshi to reconnect with her friends.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=452&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Festival in Peru</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kris Parfitt –Crooked Trails traveler
Stepping through the doorway, I noticed my friends were no longer in the courtyard, yet music trailed down many of the narrow streets beckoning me to follow. There were drums in the plaza far off to my right and brassy horns echoing off the cobblestones around the corner to my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=410&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Travel Q&amp;A on Facebook with Shelley Seale</title>
		<link>http://crookedtrails.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/volunteer-travel-qa-on-facebook-with-shelley-seale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer and travel junkie Shelley Seale will be a guest on a Q&#38;A discussion about volunteer travel this Saturday, May 16 from 10 am to 4 pm.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=86033206565
The discussion will be hosted on Facebook by The Voluntary Traveler Book Project. This is an anthology of volunteer travel tales that is coming out this fall; Shelley is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=388&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Bhutan program: new price!</title>
		<link>http://crookedtrails.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/fall-bhutan-program-new-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS JUST IN: The Bhutanese government has just lowered their daily travel tariff to encourage visitors to Bhutan and so we are passing that savings directly on to you!
The fall trip price is no longer $3800; it&#8217;s now only $3420. (Single supplement is still $300)
We will be booking this program soon, so if you are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=385&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Venetian Carnival is SOLD OUT!!!</title>
		<link>http://crookedtrails.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/venetian-carnival-is-sold-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope you got your tickets, because the ticket sales were swift this year and we are now officially maxed out!
For those of you who missed the cut-off &#8211; we&#8217;re sorry we can&#8217;t welcome you to join us (fire marshals must be obeyed) but hope to see you at one of our next events.
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		<title>Lonely Planet guidebook: help or hindrance?</title>
		<link>http://crookedtrails.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/lonely-planet-guidebook-help-or-hindrance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our intrepid co-founder shares her expertise and Crooked Trails gets a shout-out in this article about the right way to use the &#8220;Backpacker&#8217;s Bible&#8221;, the Lonely Planet guide book.

Every Backpacker&#8217;s Bible: Unpacking the Gospel According to Lonely Planet
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		<title>We Came, We Chatted, We Drank</title>
		<link>http://crookedtrails.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/we-came-we-chatted-we-drank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crooked Trails staff, board and volunteers had a blast hosting the March GreenDrinks at Ecohaus. A huge thanks to all of you who came out!

Folks from all over the green spectrum came out to connect, learn about our work, share a drink and get to know each other.

Besides holding a bingo game and drawing for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crookedtrails.wordpress.com&blog=3470247&post=368&subd=crookedtrails&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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