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	<description>The Writings of David Bardwick</description>
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		<title>Hi Folks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Folks, I first heard of Mustang: The Last Forbidden Kingdom when I was thirty years old. I knew I would one day find and explore this ancient Tibetan land. I recently completed an eighteen-day, traditional Himalayan trek, with guides, Sherpas and cooks, to Mustang, now within the borders of Nepal. This profound experience so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authentic Mustang</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trekking in the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang was everything I’d imagined and much more.  The land was shockingly beautiful at every turn, the people endlessly sweet, and the villages simple and incredibly photogenic.  The trekking itself was often extremely hard, testing my physical and psychological limits for hours at a time.  Fortunately, I had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Horseman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often, the sweetest times slip by unacknowledged.  The day we rode horseback from Mustang’s capital, Lomanthang, population 800, to some newly opened caves near the border of Tibet, was a painful one.  The land we needed to hike, to the caves and back, was both too high (over 15,000 feet) and too far (about 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring the Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ancient Mustang palace, abandoned 500 years ago after 400 years of use, is home to an unusual monastery museum. It is five stories high through only two rooms house the museum. The building is maintained only enough to keep it standing. When we asked to see the museum, the village headman climbed up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our November 15, 1969 chant during the anti-war demonstration in Washington DC was: &#8220;Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Min, the NLF is gonna win.&#8221;  It rings in my ears every day I&#8217;m in Vietnam, especially in Hanoi where he lived.  Back then I barely understood what the NLF (National Liberation Front) was.  What I knew was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I planned my latest work trip to Bali, I looked forward to meeting with Dek.  I &#8220;reserved&#8221; as much of time as possible with him so we could work together making and designing furniture.  Dek&#8217;s my main man in Bali.  We share a warehouse, workshop space, and meet daily to move all our projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling in Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was love-at-first-sight. I&#8217;m hopelessly in love with our pair of two hundred year old tigers. They are paper thin, wrinkled, and torn in a few places, but they&#8217;re the cutest tigers on earth. After many years of collecting, then selling some of the most beautiful and endearing pieces of man&#8217;s creations, I know better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent my few weeks at the Folk&#8217;s house as Dad was dying and finding photos, keepsakes, papers, and awards in the file drawers and boxes in the garage, as Dad was completing his life in preparation for the day.  I was driven to pull albums down from the highest shelves to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dad&#8217;s Last Weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the sunny days and cool nights of Southern California&#8217;s October and early November 2007, I watched Dad&#8217;s withdrawal from life; his losing weight, talking less and less, then not at all; eating less, than not at all; drinking less, then not at all. I knew his last two bites of ice cream were indeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Day in Kyoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dacman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been in Kyoto for two days now.  Today, Sunday, we got up at 5:00am to get to the biggest temple flea market in Kyoto by 6:00.  3 1/2 hours was not nearly enough time to see half the stalls, much less take in the temple and gardens.  I chose a beautiful stack (mountain?) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 Hours in Kyoto</title>
		<link>http://thedavidalancollection.com/dacman/?p=1438</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have now been in Japan a bit more than 24 hours in Kyoto.  I so love it here!  Got in late and was picked up by a good friend, Rhett, at 7:15pm at Starbucks across from the new train station.  We went out to my favorite (to date) Okinawa restaurant.  Having been up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ha Long Bay</title>
		<link>http://thedavidalancollection.com/dacman/?p=1424</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dacman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ha Long Bay, A UN Heritage site, is a water and rock world of ghostly images.  It&#8217;s compiled of some 400 sq. miles of craggy rounded top rocks jutting out from the warm salt water in the perpetual haze that completely obscures everything more than three miles distant.  Each rock island is different, yet after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as we were preparing for our Japan show and opening party, I stumbled across an 18th century folding screen painting by a well-known Japanese artist, Okyo Maruyama.  This kind of discovery is something that only occurs in the movies, on the Antiques Road Show, or in daydreams.  We have been working on the group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sa Pa, Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://thedavidalancollection.com/dacman/?p=1408</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dacman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sa Pa area is home to eight of the fifty-four Vietnamese minority groups.  Mile high town serves as a trading center for the area and trekking base for visitors.  This French hill station was rebuilt after Chinese invasion leveled much of the town in 1979.  The Chinese were perturbed by Vietnam taking over their client [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Garden</title>
		<link>http://thedavidalancollection.com/dacman/?p=1402</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I look toward the pool to see two doves chasing each other stopping momentarily at the pool for a sip of water.  It&#8217;s warm out but cloudy and chilly enough to be wearing my &#8220;fuzzies.&#8221;  I&#8217;m enjoying a mug of morning coffee wondering if I should be doing this enjoy-nature-thing a whole lot more often. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luang Prabang II</title>
		<link>http://thedavidalancollection.com/dacman/?p=1391</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dacman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to Luang Prabang and the gentleness it exudes and washes through my whole being.  This town&#8217;s special quality is that of being.  There is an old saying: the Vietnamese plant the rice, the Laotians watch it grow and the Cambodians harvest the rice.  Laos is a place to come to, to be.  There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luang Prabang I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dacman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the balcony of our six-guest room, former French villa, we can watch the monks in the next-door monastery.  They are doing the monk routines of studying, tending gardens, chatting, playing, sending text messages and washing their orange/red robes.  These monasteries are generally the only means of acquiring an education in Laos.  There is something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m Still a Boy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 22, Putu is the youngest of the staff that cares for the Bali house. He is invariably happy and full of good will. He dashes around the villa whether cleaning floors, making beds, running up to open the front gate or serving breakfast. He&#8217;s always ready to serve with puppy-like eagerness. Everyone who comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Sunsets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each of the thousand sunsets I&#8217;ve seen reflected on the same old granite mountain captures my heart.  A primal urge must kick in, and I&#8217;m helpless in the face of this sunset&#8217;s ever-changing, yet eternal beauty.  I can&#8217;t wait for the color shift to happen.  The mountain first turns from full light, to gold, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old People&#8217;s Car</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this weeks NPR comedy show, &#8220;Wait, Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me,&#8221; the Buick Regal was referred to as an &#8220;old people&#8217;s car.&#8221;  I was vaguely insulted. These days I&#8217;m driving a brown 2004 Buick Regal.  My Aunt Ruth died a year ago and I inherited her Buick.  The odometer reads 25,000 miles and it runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lindu &#8211; Delightfully Twisted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lindu is truly one of my favorite human spirits on earth. Alive and playful, he&#8217;s overflowing with out-of-the-box creativity. Delightfully twisted, the unexpected is his norm. A bicycle seat magically become ears, a door handle, a mouth of a sculpture. Soon a mystical or goofy creature takes shape. His latest creation for me is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Minutes and Sixty-Six Cents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My haircutter&#8217;s shop was closed for my first two weeks in Bali.  I arrived shaggy and grew increasingly uncomfortable with each day that passed.  I drove past his tiny shop every day on my way to my warehouse/workshop, hoping for a haircut.  &#8220;All&#8221; the barbers in Bali are Javanese and &#8220;all&#8221; the Javanese went home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September.  It&#8217;s the Ramadan holidays here and other Muslim holidays now.  That means that ALL of the Javanese workers are gone from Bali for 20-30 days.  Javanese do everything from hair cutting (I&#8217;ve needed one from before I arrived in Bali) to woodworking.  No one has done &#8220;anything&#8221; since I arrived and will not for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali According to Wayan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit I get some of my inside scoop info on Bali from a completely unreliable source: Wayan Balik, my driver for these past five years.  I ask him about Bali traditions, beliefs, and practices because I like the stories he tells.  I love to laugh at his tales that he starts in earnest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be only one dog type in Bali.  This uniquely common Balinese animal can be found in infinite variety, as long as it is brown, 16 1/2&#8243; high at the shoulders, of a certain body type, and lives on the street outside every Balinese family compound. These street dogs often make for uncomfortable [...]]]></description>
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