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		<title>New Caledonia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A striking characteristic to our recent trip to New Caledonia is my lack of reflection.  The ease and health of the place and people has a surface beauty that may not be so superficial.  It's really hard to tell in a 10 day visit, but everything about the island lent to an immediate state of well being.  Dealing with a lack of adversity has never sat well with me psychologically, but in this instance it seemed very natural.  Maybe I am just getting old or maybe we were in the presence of a better way of life.

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		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2010/01/new-caledonia/</link>
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		<title>New York, NY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York is a place where every aspect of a developed culture has been carried to excess, and what is left now is the aftermath.  It is a place where 90% of the people you meet are atrocious self-promoters, a true stage for the talented and tragically ambitious. We spent seven years in NY, and now that we have moved to the other side of the world I think it is fitting to make a post about this great city.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2009/07/new-york-ny/</link>
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		<title>Umphang, Thailand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Umphang is located in North Western Thailand along the Myanmar border, and is home to Karen, Thai, Shan and other minority ethnic tribes.  To get to Umphang you fly into the town of Mae Sot and take the 164km winding road through the Thanon Thongchai Mountain Range.  This road is the only access from Thailand, there is another road that will take you to Myanmar, but to enter the country you have to leave your passports at the border.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2009/06/umphang-thailand/</link>
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		<title>Sapa, Vietnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the north west of Vietnam, near the Chinese border, high in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range you will find the town of Sapa.  To get there we took the overnight train from Hanoi.  The ride was rough and noisy, but we were fairly comfortable in our private sleeping car.  Near dawn we awoke and gazed out the window at the villages along the train tracks leading into Lao Cai.  For a brief moment we caught a glimpse of a child that couldn’t have been more than three climbing down a ten food garden wall naked and seemingly unsupervised.  I couldn’t help but think how hearty such an upbringing would make a person.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2009/06/sapa-vietnam/</link>
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		<title>Barcelona, Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traveling in Spain for me was like a second coming of age.  Barcelona embodies all the confusion, passion, spontaneity, creativity and uncertainty that make the pubescent mind so wonderful and frightening.  It is a combination of dissipation and focus with a lack of experience to distinguish the two, which gives its diverse residents youth and optimism.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/10/barcelona-spain/</link>
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		<title>Georgetown, Guyana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the story is this.  I was hired to production design a Bollywood movie in Georgetown, Guyana.  I was given numerous signs that taking this assignment was a bad decision.  Before I left NY almost the entire crew quit because of the insane ramblings of our very proud Indian director.  The script was terrible, I won’t go into detail, but I did have make my first trip into peep world to buy a dildo, which was to be used as a prop in a scene where a penis transplant is taking place and somehow a cat enters the operating room, steals the removed phallice and runs out of the hospital.  Anyway, my assistant, Dave, and I decided to stay with the production, because we wanted to go to Guyana.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/08/georgetown-guyana/</link>
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		<title>Siem Reap, Cambodia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming form a western culture, the realities of traveling in South East Asia is a sounding for the compassion you have as well as the degradation you can bear whiteness to.  After passing through customs at Angkor International Airport you immediately get a glimpse of the ignominy in which the descendants of the once great Khmer Empire live.  Gaunt men with beautifully symmetrical faces and large eyes hustle every weary traveler as they exit the airport with an unsettling frantic desperation.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/08/siem-reap-cambodia/</link>
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		<title>Coyote Gulch, Escalante Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coyote Gulch can be accessed from the Red Well trail head 31.5 miles down Hole in the Rock Road. Which is located a few miles southeast from Escalante Utah.  There are a few links at the end of the article with more detailed instructions and maps.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/08/coyote-gulch-escalante-utah/</link>
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		<title>Wind Rivers, Wyoming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bridger Wilderness Area in the Wind River mountain range is located just a few hours south of Yellowstone National Park.  This 428,169 acre expanse of jutting majestic mountainous land, rises out of Wyoming’s terra firma to its highest point on the top of Gannet Peat at 13,804 feet above sea level.  The mountains are interlaced with cold, crystal clear, high mountain lakes.  Black and Brown bears and the occasional wolf pack roam the lower elevations.  The knowledge of which, at least for a city boy like me, puts your psyche into an atavistic tension that makes you feel like you are part of the great Mana.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/08/wind-rivers-wyoming/</link>
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		<title>Vatnajökull Glacier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iceland earns its handle, “the land of fire and ice”, nowhere better than Vatnaj&#246;kull Glacier.  Every inch of landscape on this stretch of Iceland’s southern coast shows signs of millions of years of abuse and upheaval.  The glacier seems to be sitting quietly, revealing itself through the massive fissures it has created in the volcanic mountains.  Vast fields of black sand, caused by volcanoes erupting underneath the glacier are a reminder of floods rivaling the flow of the Amazon that have laid waste to lichen covered plains. Around the base of the glacier large inland lakes form floating icebergs thousands of years old.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/08/vatnajokull-glacier/</link>
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		<title>Melbourne, Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Melbourne Australia has a feeling of prosperity, leisure, balance, daring, community, and health.  I have not visited many cities that embody all of these attributes.  The people are friendly and although they have one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world, they seem to have not lost sight of the value of life outside the workplace.  At night the streets and parks are teaming with people enjoying life outside the home.   Melbourne has several places for people to congregate and enjoy art, film, music, you name it you can find it on any given night.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/06/melbourne-australia/</link>
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		<title>Arches National Park, Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can I say that hasn’t been said about Arches National Park?  Featured in literature, paintings, films, commercials, and thousands upon millions of photographs.  Almost every person I have spoken to in my life that has done any traveling in the western United States has made the trip to arches, and rightfully so.  The park is home to over 2,000 natural sandstone arches and just as many more unusual sandstone formations created by millions of year’s geological events.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/06/arches-national-park-utah/</link>
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		<title>Little Sahara, Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little Sahara Recreation Area in Utah is one of my favorite places in world.  Created by left over deposits from the Sevier River, which flowed into Lake Bonneville over 15,000 years ago, this one hundred and twenty four mile square living dune system is heading north at the rate of 9 feet per year.  The nearest services for the area are in Eureka and nearest major city and airport are located in Salt Lake, which is 115 miles south.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/06/little-sahara-utah/</link>
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		<title>Kangaroo Island, Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kangaroo Island is located of the coast of southern Australia.  The nearest major city is Adelaide and is easily accessible by ferry or plane.  If you are taking a rental car to the island by ferry be sure to make a reservation.  I have listed the ferry service contacts at the end of the article.  The Island boasts 318 miles of coastline and 1680 square miles of very diverse terrain.  A population of 4259 friendly laidback residents gives the Island an atmosphere of a sleepy small town.  Every time we passed a local driver coming the opposite direction they would wave, something I am definitely not accustomed to here in NYC.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/06/kangaroo-island-australia/</link>
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		<title>Egilsstaðir, Iceland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Egilsstaðir is located on Iceland’s east coast.  The town and the surrounding area are home to some of Iceland’s most beautiful landscapes.  The town was established in 1947 as a service center for the region.  It has grown a great deal over the years and is now the largest city on the east end of the island.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/05/egilsstadir-iceland/</link>
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		<title>Shanklands: Rainforest Eco-Resort, Guyana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We left our hotel in Georgetown and traveled though the city by cab.   The drive was very surreal.  We saw cows standing next to pumps at a gas station.  We crossed the worlds longest floating bridge, which seemed to be metal plates not joined together in any particular way, held up by various floating debris.  At one point we drove along the dykes that separate the ocean from the city.  Apparently the Dutch only like to make settlements below sea level.  We also saw farmers drying their rice on the shoulder of the road.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/05/shanklands-rainforest-eco-resort/</link>
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		<title>Kaieteur Falls, Guyana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We left Shanklands eco-resort and traveled up the Essequibo river by boat. We arrived at an incredibly small airstrip. Our boat captain dropped us off and then sped away. One thing about traveling in Guyana is that the people are not very forth coming with information on itineraries.  Although we had no problems, being dropped off at a jungle airstrip where the only structure is basically a bus stop with a windsock on top can be a little disconcerting.  We waited a little while until an incredibly small plane arrived. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/05/kaieteur-falls/</link>
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		<title>Moody&#8217;s Namena, Fiji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moody’s Namena is a one-resort island, owned and operated by Tom and Joan Moody.   The resort consists of six bures that sit a top the islands cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.   Each bure or Fijian cottage is an hexagon with double doors on three walls that lead onto a wrap around porch.  So, whether you are on the deck or laying in your king size bed you always have a fantastic view, and at night you have the ocean waves to lull you to sleep.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/04/moodys-namena/</link>
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		<title>Backpacking the Wire Pass, Buckskin Gulch and Paria Canyon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My trip started at 7:00 pm in NYC.  I boarded a plane for Salt Lake City that was supposed to arrive around 11:00 pm, but didn’t get in until 1:00 am.  Since I was going solo and the route I was taking is a one-way trip I had to hire a shuttle from the base to the trail head.  If you need a ride arrange it before you go.  At the end of the article I provided a list of authorized shuttle providers.  I had to meet my shuttle at Lee’s Ferry which is about an hour and a half outside Page Arizona, so I picked up my rental car and started the six hour drive.  On the way I stopped at the BLM station to pick up my permit.  You can get the required permit online at: <a href="https://www.blm.gov/az/asfo/paria/" target="_blank">www.blm.gov/az/asfo/paria/</a>.  I finally reached Lee’s Ferry at 9:30 am and started the two hour drive back to the Wire Pass trailhead.  This timetable is a little extreme.  I recommend spending the night in Page or camping in one of the nearby campgrounds before you start backpacking, rather than traveling for nineteen straight hours.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/04/backpacking-the-wire-pass-buckskin-gulch-and-paria-canyon/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to FiveSevenOne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five Seven One was founded by Marcy Milks and Eric Scott. Taking their love for travel and their experience as graphic designers, they decided to share the places they have been, providing a guide for travelers around the world. Stay tuned for lots of images and travel tips. Thank you for visiting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fivesevenone.com/2008/04/welcome-to-fivesevenone/</link>
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