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		<title>Nubian Museum in Aswan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While on safari in Masai Mara, Kenya, we were intrigued by a colony of baboons nesting in a large tree on the banks of the river running through our camp. Each night, one by one, they slowly ambled toward a clearing on the savannah and settled into the equivalent of primate lotus positions to view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mara: After the Drought</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The softness of the Mara is blanketed by the sun bleached skeletons of cows, often punctuated by complete hides covering the bones, tanned by the heat and ignored by vultures. There has been too much food available for them to rip the flesh from the remains of many of these gentle beasts herded to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning in the Mara</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a sunrise we took a balloon ride piloted by a colorful American who Michael met on a previous Mara trip. 
As silent as a whisper, in between the firing of the hot air into the giant balloon, we glide low over the sand colored grass. Hippos are returning along their established paths to their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunchtime on the Mara</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our driver slows the SUV, he sees something off in the distance to the right. Soon we are aware that it&#8217;s a lioness and we see that she is followed, in single file, by eight more girls, each spaced about ten feet apart.  They cross the road before us and continue into a field [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaze Morrissey Bungy Jump in New Zealand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many, this would have to be the ultimate challenge, but not for Kaze Morrissey. Make no mistake, the Nevis Highwire Bungy is not for the nervous &#8211; with a wild 134 metres (440 feet) drop, the river seems to rush towards you faster than you&#8217;re rushing towards it! Nov 2009.

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		<title>Songran &#8211; Thai New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Songkran, the Day After Bangkok returned to celebrating the Thai New Year, Songkran Festival. What started out as an annual festival to provide relief from the heat by gently splashing luster water.
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		<title>A Lucky Eland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mara Reserve Oloololo Gate is inhabited by an unexpected tenant. She’s eight years old, cared for by the guards since she was an orphaned baby. Named Lucky in Swahili, she’s an Eland, and just about as affectionate with her saviors as a domesticated dog, but this baby sports huge horns and powerful legs that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Day 2009 Samburu, Kenya, Larson Tented Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing from the porch of our tent perched upon the Ewaso Ng’iro River, flowing red and rapidly through the campsite swollen from the previous night’s rain up river. Despite the continued drought with loss of animal life and much detriment to the human life in this part of the high country.  










Here in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Ended Up on Top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridge climber, latest addition to my resume 
The first leg of this journey starting in San Francisco includes New Zealand, Thailand, Kenya, Egypt, England, Ireland, and New York for the holidays (2009), ending the trip while beginning the New Year back in San Francisco. 
This is the first time that Kaze has had an opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You Travel So Much?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello from Jenni! It&#8217;s been awhile since the website has been updated with Michael&#8217;s gorgeous photos and my postings but with good reason! We&#8217;ve continued our journey of the last ten months with some shorter versions of this long beautiful exploration of the world, spent lovely time with family, raised some polywogs in the hot [...]]]></description>
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