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		<title>Cycling Silk on CBC and National Geographic radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cycling Silk was recently featured on the CBC and National Geographic radio! If you missed the broadcasts, you can now listen to audio clips of the interviews at the links below, excerpted from the full shows for your convenience: National Geographic Weekend radio talks to Kate Harris of Cycling Silk (January 9, 2012) CBC Radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lands of lost borders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten months ago, in January, Mel and I lurched off the European shore of Istanbul, Turkey with overburdened bikes and quaking legs. Just a few days ago, in late October, we pedaled into Leh, a small city barnacled onto the Himalayan mountains in northern India. In the months between, we consumed roughly 10,000 packs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>making haste through the Greater Himalaya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the dearth of blog updates, but we&#8217;ve only had sporadic and flaky access to internet for the past few months. Stay tuned for more evocative renderings of our escapades in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tibet, and now Nepal &#8211; I&#8217;ll be writing a book once I get home &#8211; but for now here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what is wasteland, what is wilderness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are places you can get to by road, and there are places you can only get to by being on the road, a state of mind you can carry, with concerted effort, to almost any context. Even a train swaying drunkenly on its tracks across Kazakhstan as men sway drunkenly through it, past aisles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>explaining borders to the birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of strict plans and fixed agendas, detours are just distractions. But on the Cycling Silk expedition, detours often prove the destination &#8211; and not just because we frequently get lost. So when KuzeyDoğa, an award-winning Turkish NGO, invited us to explore their biodiversity conservation projects in the borderlands of eastern Turkey &#8211; wooing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>movie trailer for Cycling Silk 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth more than two thousand miles. We’re super stoked to share this 4-minute movie, a sneak preview of our adventures so far exploring conservation across borders along the Silk Road – by bike. This trailer features Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, our first three countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a cold ride through the South Caucasus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South Caucasus photoset is now entirely up on Flickr, complete with captions. Check out our shots of sublime biking, wildlife, and wilderness in eastern Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. These are also featured on our Facebook expedition page, and we love seeing your comments! By sky, stone, and creatures, I am thoroughly, irrevocably, and delightfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the borderland between freeze and thaw in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French translation/En Français Turkey, at least the thin strip of the country we’ve been biking, is made like its tea only served cold: steep, intensely dark and concentrated, with a lot of water poured on top. The Turkish adventure began with an epicurean week in Istanbul with two new and now dear friends, Diarmuid and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>steep hills, steeper tea, and photos of both</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclingsilk.com/blog/?p=1338</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More comprehensive update to come, but for now, check out our photos from the first week of biking on Flickr or better yet Facebook (where all the photos have captions and comments.) If I were Tomaž Šalamun, I&#8217;d ride wild on an invisible bicycle, like a metaphor sprung from a poem&#8217;s cage, still not certain of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cycling beyond borders on the Silk Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French translation After a week of meetings and meals in Istanbul &#8211; where we&#8217;ve been bulking up on baklava and other delicious Turkish fare thanks to the generosity of our amazing hosts, Diarmuid and Berna &#8211; tomorrow Mel and I hop on our bikes and begin living the Silk Road dream, starting with biking bootcamp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>get all the Cycling Silk gossip on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, Cycling Silk is now on Facebook. Follow this page to get all the behind-the-scenes updates on the adventure, including snapshots of the building process behind our Seven Cycles custom titanium touring bikes, and embarrassing childhood photos charting the long, dorky, intrepid friendship of Kate and Mel. Only four days until we fly to Istanbul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>winter &#8220;training&#8221; in cold, snowy Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclingsilk.com/blog/?p=1193</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the first push of the pedals out of Istanbul in January, life will resolve down to a few intense simplicities: biking all day, every day, burdened and exhilarated; exploring borderlands and wildernesses in mountains and deserts; and calling the crooked, winding Silk Road our &#8220;home&#8221; for a year. But until that moment of real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>riding Seven down the Silk Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Silk Road between Istanbul and India promises to be one hell (and heaven) of a bumpy ride, but thanks to Seven Cycles, we&#8217;ll have custom-built titanium touring bikes to buffer the potholes we&#8217;re bound to encounter along the way. We are so giddy and grateful for this chance to ride the Expat S from [...]]]></description>
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