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		<title>What was supposed to be a nice day…</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/17/what-was-supposed-to-be-a-nice-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is always nice to wake up in the morning, stumble into the kitchen and find a beautiful girl there that you have never met. Her name was Nat, a spanish couchsurfer who came to the US for climbing in the grand canyon, and later Alaska. After we all got up, we decided to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Vegas, sooner then expected</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/16/back-in-vegas-sooner-then-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On sunday, it was time for Vegas again. I was in no particular rush as it didn&#8217;t seem too far to Vegas and there was only one serious town on the whole 200 mile stretch.The first guy tat picked me up had no windshield. All I could make out from his mumbling ramblings was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting some lines</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/15/shooting-some-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The next day I had decided that I needed to buy a new camera. I really couldn&#8217;t afford it, but since they are cheap in the US and I had all the beauty of Costa Rica right in front of me, I decided I needed to spend my last bit of savings on it. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down to Upland</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/14/down-to-upland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On friday (this is May 1st, just mentioning that since I am behind so much  ), it was time to turn around and head up to Vegas for my flight to Costa Rica. I had one more stop between SD and Vegas: the town of Upland. When talking to my friend Andrew Farley, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting close to swineflue territory!</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/13/getting-close-to-swineflue-territory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The next few days I spent in San Diego catching up on work, hanging out with Andy and his wife when they were off work and I even made it out of the house during the day one day  I decided I wanted to go to the Mexican border, and possibly even into Tijuana. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I crazy for hitchhiking out of LA? The hustler that gave me a ride thought so!</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/12/am-i-crazy-for-hitchhiking-out-of-la-the-hustler-that-gave-me-a-ride-thought-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/12/am-i-crazy-for-hitchhiking-out-of-la-the-hustler-that-gave-me-a-ride-thought-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The next day things were going to get interesting: I was in the middle of the metropolitan area of LA and was dead set on hitchhiking my way out of there. I was right next to the airport though, so I figured if there was any traffic leaving the city it would be coming from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down in to Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/11/down-in-to-los-angeles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few cars, one actually pulled over. Inside were my soon to be new friends Skye and Tarik. They were on a trip down the coast. Skye was living in the area and Tarik had come down from Kansas City where they were both from (well, Tarik was originally from Morocco, but for now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highway 101 down the coast of California</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/10/highway-101-down-the-coast-of-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/10/highway-101-down-the-coast-of-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On saturday it was time for me to leave and head down to San Diego, to see my friend Andy Sanderson and his wife. I had been working with Andy in the couchsurfing tech team and we had met in Alaska when he came up there for a week. The Sandersons live in San Diego, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silicon Valley</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/06/09/silicon-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had come to Santa Clara for the MySQL conference and I had found a couch with Julie, a P.E.-teacher living there. Luckily, she had agreed to host me the whole time during the conference so I didn&#8217;t have to worry about that at all. She also had to work all week long, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easing my way down to Santa Clara, CA</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/27/easing-my-way-down-to-santa-clara-ca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/27/easing-my-way-down-to-santa-clara-ca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was saturday early evening 6pm when Donna had to go to some party closeby and first dropped Kenny off on one end of Chico and then me on the other end. It was around 30 miles to the freeway, and a couple hundred more to get to Santa Clara. I had all the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Donna up in Chico</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/26/visiting-donna-up-in-chico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 01:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On wednesday night I had (and more importantly, he had  ) some time to catch up with Casey.We had been good friends back in Rotterdam during the collective there and during many chat conversations. In Alaska, he was very busy and we didn&#8217;t get much time to just hang out and be friends. Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Las Vegas, Sacramento and BaseCamp</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/25/leaving-las-vegas-sacramento-and-basecamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 01:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[the next day we were forced to leave vegas early, so we were invited to get a ride with Kenny&#8217;s friends to Sacramento. It was an 8 hour drive that was quite interesting to em and boring to the others. It&#8217;s basically desert most of the way, but when it is your first time seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicked out of Vegas…</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/14/kicked-out-of-vegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving at the airport in Vegas, I wanted to get to the strip by public bus as that is by far the cheapest. Not too much to my surprise though, nobody seemed to know anything about public busses. I found my own way there and even got on the bus for free because I only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to the craziness called the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/13/returning-to-the-craziness-called-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/13/returning-to-the-craziness-called-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent two nights at Davina&#8217;s place, mostly working and relaxing. We went to a CS games night on monday night which was a lot of fun. It was great catching up with Davina; it is so hard staying in touch with everyone you get along with in CS that it is always good to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading down to London</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/12/heading-down-to-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I exchanged my luggage at home and took care of some things that needed taking care of. I left late saturday afternoon to hitch to London, since my flight would leave from there on Tuesday afternoon. I found a couch with Davina, a friend of Tiina&#8217;s that had hosted Tiina and me almost 2 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 wedding and no funeral</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/12/1-wedding-and-no-funeral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the cutting of the hair in Enschede, it was time to get over to Limburg to attend one of my best friends&#8217; weddings. He chose me to be his best man, which I think is quite an honor.The hitch from Enschede to Limburg (200 Km) was teriibly chaotic with some big detours, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first day of the rest of my life</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/10/the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/10/the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 11:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After coming home from Barcelona I had roughly two weeks before I would be off to the states, so I had to make the most of my time. I filled my first days with working and preparing all kinds of things to be able to leave the EU for 3 months.
I also just started working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Barcelona with my awesome Mom!</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/09/exploring-barcelona-with-my-awesome-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 11:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walterheck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The next morning it was time to get my shiny behind to Barcelona to pick up my mom from the airport. Merce gave me a ride to the edge of Tarragona, where she studies. From there I had a ride all the way into Barcelona within minutes.
As always, when I was dropped off at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fulfilling a childhood dream: Salou</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/08/fulfilling-a-childhood-dream-salou/</link>
		<comments>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/08/fulfilling-a-childhood-dream-salou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On monday morning, it was time to leave again. I had one more stop before meeting my mother in Barcelona: Salou. I have always very explicitly not wanted to go there, so this was my chance to counter-fulfill that dream (does that sound strange?)
The thing is that Salou is a very famous holiday-destination for dutch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Fallas and the rest of my stay in the wonderful Valencia</title>
		<link>http://www.walterheck.com/2009/05/07/las-fallas-and-the-rest-of-my-stay-in-the-wonderful-valencia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I was done with the conference, I was just in time to get a very good spot for the Mascleta at the town hall square.
To understand what a Mascleta is, you would have to be there yourself, but here&#8217;s a little explanation:
In Valencia every year there is a festival called Las Fallas. It is [...]]]></description>
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