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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—18 -CALIFORNIA ADVENTURES: MINGLING WITH GIANT SEQUOIAS</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/03/20/the-travels-of-a-journalist%e2%80%9418-california-adventures-mingling-with-giant-sequoias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne © 2010
(Background: I was an exchange instructor at Fullerton College in 1983 occupying the residence of my exchange partner, Larry Taylor, at 2903 Wellesley Court, Fullerton, a suburb of Los Angeles. I arrived with my family in California on 2 Feb. 1983, and we decided to make use of our weekends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—17-TIKI TOURING NORTH ISLAND: A PEEP INTO THE FAR NORTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne © 2010
The final leg of our Tiki Tour focused on the Northland Region, more commonly known as the Far North or less commonly as the Winterless North (because of its mild climate). Comprising a land area of 13,789 square km, it arrogates 80 percent of the 285-km-long North Auckland Peninsula. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—16-TIKI-TOURING NORTH ISLAND: FROM CAPITAL CITY TO BIG CITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne 2010
On arrival in Wellington (current population 386,000), the capital and the third largest city in New Zealand, Monday (21 Dec. 1981) evening, we—my almost 2-year-old son Junius, wife Yoke-Sim and I—checked into the now defunct Waterloo Hotel. After dinner, I went for a stroll from Boulcott Street, down Willis Street, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—15-TIKI-TOURING NEW ZEALAND: EXPLORING THE EAST OF SOUTH ISLAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne c 2010
In New Zealand, the West (in the sense of Horace Greeley’s “Go West, young man”) refers to the West Coast of the South Island—the area to the west of the Alpine range that you can penetrate through the Haast Pass on Highway 6, Arthur’s Pass on Highway 73, or Lewis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—14- TIKI-TOURING NEW ZEALAND: CROSSING THE ALPINES ON SOUTH ISLAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne  c 2010
 My son Junius was barely 2 years old when my wife Yoke-Sim and I took him on a two-week-long tour of New Zealand. We landed in Christchurch, the big city of the South Island, on a Saturday (12 Dec. 1981) at 4.30 p.m. although we left Brisbane, Qld. (Australia), at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—13 An Australian Adventure: From the Top End back to Central Queensland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne c 2010
The Forday family of Darwin—Harry Forday; his sister, Pauline; his daughter-in-law Sylvia and her daughters Penney and Leanne—gave my wife Yoke-Sim and me a warm welcome at the Darwin coach terminal on Saturday (27 Dec. 1978) early afternoon. Apparently, the Forday family of Rockhampton, headed by Albert and Winnie, had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—12 An Australian Adventure: Backtracking the Nullarbor and reaching the Top End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne c 2010
I participated in the AATEJ (subsequently renamed Journalism Education Association) general meeting in Perth 14-15 December 1978. Doug White transported us from Cottesloe to the meeting venue on the WAIT (subsequently renamed Curtin University of Technology) campus. The first day’s highlight was a discussion with high-school journalism teachers.
My paper elicited heated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—11 &#8211; An Australian Adventure: Crossing the Nullarbor back and forth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne   (C) 2010
After my wife Yoke-Sim and I settled down in Central Queensland in 1976, we decided to get better acquainted with our adopted land by criss-crossing the big island  (continent?).
Since I had considerable experience exploring the United States by Greyhound during my year (1966-67) with the World Press Institute, I convinced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—10 -EXPLORING GERMANY: A DRIVE IN SCHWARZWALD (BLACK FOREST)</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/02/07/the-travels-of-a-journalist%e2%80%9410-exploring-germany-a-drive-in-schwarzwald-black-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne @ 2010
My encounter with Germany’s Schwarzwald (Black Forest) began on Tuesday (3 March 1992) morning, when I arrived in Karlsruhe (population 289,000) in the federal state of Baden Württemberg. Karlsruhe is the country’s judicial capital or home of justice because it is the location of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travels of a Journalist—9 EXPLORING GERMANY: A DRIVE ON WIENSTRASSE (WINE ROUTE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelton A. Gunaratne @2010
As a habit, I invariably combined my professional (journalistic) and scholarly interests in planning my travels. My winter 1992 tour of the Rhine Valley wine route (Wienstrasse) and the Black Forest (Schwarzwold) was no exception.
 I had made arrangements to visit the editorial office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) one of [...]]]></description>
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