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		<title>Wisps of Washington — II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few hurried days in Washington: monuments and museums, dinosaurs and aeroplanes, the Capitol and Great Falls—and the software project that somehow held it all together.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wisps of Washington — I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A boy once played a game in which he woke up in foreign cities. Decades later, he found himself in Washington, looking for an old locomotive his father had wanted to see. There were monuments, memories, a little office absurdity, and a city glimpsed in stolen hours. Whether this is a travelogue or an old childhood game finally reaching its last turn is for the reader to decide.]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: Dragonflies on an Afternoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tourists are like dragonflies on an autumn afternoon. They hurry from attraction to attraction and monument to monument in search of beauty or history, hovering over gardens, harbours and mountains, footpaths and shopfronts. Sometimes they alight softly in a library, among books rising from wall to wall...]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: The Blue Between</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Across the valley rose the broad, flat silhouette of Mount Solitary. To our right, the Three Sisters revealed themselves from behind—an unfamiliar, almost private perspective far removed from the celebrated view at Echo Point which we would later visit. Beyond them stretched the Narrow Neck Plateau, its sandstone spine disappearing into an unbroken sea of eucalyptus.]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: Conversations with Sydney</title>
		<link>https://uspandey.com/2026/07/25/in-pursuit-of-oz-conversations-with-sydney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Australia's flora is itself a meeting place of distant worlds. Some species are native to this ancient continent; others journeyed here from across the globe and found a new home. Rooted to the same patch of earth, they have watched Sydney reinvent itself.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every writer sends a piece into the world with little certainty of where it might travel.
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: Finding Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As though reluctant to let us go, Hyde Park sent us off beneath hesitant drops of rain. By the time we reached College Street the drizzle had thickened into a mild patter. The rain gave us an excuse we scarcely needed.]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: All That Light in Sydney</title>
		<link>https://uspandey.com/2026/07/07/in-pursuit-of-oz-all-that-light-in-sydney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing about the bustling waterfront around me suggested 1844. The wooden sailing ships that had once relied upon wind, tide and stars were gone. Engines, radio and radar belonged to a future beyond imagination.]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: Lost in the Bush</title>
		<link>https://uspandey.com/2026/06/28/in-pursuit-of-oz-lost-in-the-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Step inside and look up, and you’ll find a waterfall dropping through a perfect hole in the ceiling — like the mountain quietly decided to let a little daylight in. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Pursuit of Oz: All Quiet on the Gold Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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