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There's No Place Like Home

You know you're a either a Cure lovin', skinny jeans wearin', Prozac poppin' emo girl, or a  true Oregonian when you're looking forward to spending a week in weather like this:

I'm heading home to beautiful wet Oregon for a week and super excited about it! See ya on the other side of the Tour blogosphere.

Wait, I do love The Cure...

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Tips for World Traveling #5: France

Driving tours are often exciting and interesting, allowing travelers to see an entire country in just a short time. In a history-filled and beautiful place like France, this can be many people's dream come true. However, France goes above and beyond the simple and quaint countryside scenery and castles. They also provide a moving road targets for motorists to smash into barbed wire fences and hard tarmac. You know, just to keep things fun. Or at least, that's what some idiotic drivers for the media that are covering the Tour de France seem to think.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWT8yeHGA0U][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9ah5cFVfI]Disgraceful. Unbelievably, in both crashes, all three riders got back on their bikes and finished the stages. Talk about tough.

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Tips for World Traveling #4: Japan

Recommended travel items when using the Japanese subway include a crowbar and Avalung.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0A9-oUoMug]

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Tips for World Traveling #3: Norway

When trekking through Norway, gravity, while still mandatory, is infinitely malleable.

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Tips for World Traveling #2: New Zealand

When in New Zealand, it would probably be best to leave your wussy "O" face at home.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_BCKZqDLUM][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lrE2JcO44]

A little history about the haka from Wikipedia:
Although the use of haka by the All Blacks rugby union team and the Kiwis rugby league team has made one type of haka familiar, it has led to misconceptions.[2] Haka are not exclusively war dances or performed only by men.[3] Some are performed by women, others by mixed groups, and some simple haka are performed by children. Haka are performed for various reasons: for amusement, as a hearty welcome to distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements or occasions (McLean 1996:46-47).War haka (peruperu) were originally performed by warriors before a battle, proclaiming their strength and prowess in order to intimidate the opposition. Today, haka constitute an integral part of formal or official welcome ceremonies for distinguished visitors or foreign dignitaries, serving to impart a sense of the importance of the occasion.Various actions are employed in the course of a performance, including facial contortions such as showing the whites of the eyes and the poking out of the tongue, and a wide variety of vigorous body actions such as slapping the hands against the body and stamping of the feet. As well as chanted words, a variety of cries and grunts are used. Haka may be understood as a kind of symphony in which the different parts of the body represent many instruments. The hands, arms, legs, feet, voice, eyes, tongue and the body as a whole combine to express courage, annoyance, joy or other feelings relevant to the purpose of the occasion.

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Tips for World Traveling #1: France

When in France, never, EVER set your camcorder down.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu5B3Fsstg]

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