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		<title>Tour de Schwiiz 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a few hours a small group of us will depart on our &#8220;Tour de Schwiiz&#8221; bike tour through Switzerland.  My bags are packed and the weather forecast looks good.  I&#8217;m ready!
This is the fifth &#8220;Tour de Schwiiz&#8221;, which has evolved into an annual tradition with my friends.  This year we&#8217;re cycling down the Rhein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad &#8220;Cycling Tips&#8221; advice on CBC News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CBC News website recently featured a Q&#38;A article on cycling called: Your Interview: Cycling tips.  Readers submitted questions and 17 were chosen to be answered by &#8220;celebrity&#8221; bike mechanic and coordinator Sherri Byer from The Community Bicycle Network of Toronto.  The article didn&#8217;t go into great detail on any topic, but did offer some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/07/bad-cycling-tips-advice-on-cbc-news.html</link>
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		<title>Bike Tour 2008 in Northern France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The excitement of what lies ahead comes in waves.  On June 3rd, in just under a week, we&#8217;ll be departing on &#8220;Bike Tour 2008&#8243;; a 3-4 week tour through northern France.  There&#8217;s a nice symmetry to this destination:  In 2006 I biked north to Stockholm and in 2007 I biked east to Vienna.  This year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/05/bike-tour-2008-in-northern-france.html</link>
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		<title>Bodensee-Koenigssee Radweg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I are a few hours away from a four-day tour along the Bodensee-Koenigssee Radweg.  The route runs west-east in the far south of Germany, and connects the Lake of Constance (Bodensee) with the Koenigssee just out of Salzburg, Austria.  I cycled a part of this route last September and found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/05/bodensee-koenigssee-radweg.html</link>
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		<title>Tessin Weekend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The alps run west to east through Switzerland and create a weather barrier between the north and south.  This weekend is one of those times when the north is wet and cold, and the south is warm and sunny.  Guess where I&#8217;m going.
This will be my first multi day tour of the year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/04/tessin-weekend-2.html</link>
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		<title>Map My Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On previous bike tours I&#8217;ve wanted to keep friends and family informed on my progress by updating a Google Map.  It&#8217;s an easy thing to do, but updates only happen as often as I have internet access.  The silly thing is, my mobile phone has a web browser, but I don&#8217;t know of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/03/map-my-tour.html</link>
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		<title>March 6, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You never recover from losing a loved one, but the first year afterwards stings for a reason.  Each birthday, anniversary, and holiday becomes the first time without the person who made that day what it is.  Today is the first time I cannot wish my mother a happy birthday.  However, as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/03/march-6-2008.html</link>
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		<title>North Sea Cycle Route</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was reading up on bike touring and came across the official site for the North Sea Cycle Route.  I immediately knew I wanted to do this.  From this page:
The North Sea Cycle Route is a 6.000 km chain of exciting experiences waiting for the cycling tourist.
You will explore an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/02/north-sea-cycle-route.html</link>
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		<title>Early Spring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t make sense of this winter.  Over the weekend I went hiking and mountain biking in a climate suitable for mid-May rather than mid-February.  There&#8217;s barely any snow on the ground and most precipitation we do get is in the form of rain.  I shouldn&#8217;t complain:  At least it&#8217;s decisive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/02/early-spring.html</link>
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		<title>Plotting my Bike Route</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps is amazing.  You&#8217;ve likely seen the feature that lets you retrieve driving directions by simply typing in a start and end location.  It got better.  Sometime last year a feature was added that allows you to drag the route around to force it through particular locations.  The map is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schwiiz.org/blog/2008/01/plotting-my-bike-route.html</link>
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