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		<title>Happy Wanderer: Discover Yolo &#8212; &#8217;cause You Only Live Once</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLS NEWSPAPERS: May 24, 2012 &#8220;She thinks my tractor&#8217;s sexy&#8221; &#8211; Kenny Chesney I admit it: John Deer tractors turn me on. I was sharing this tidbit with a Yolo County grower, the other day &#8212; a bit like preaching to the choir since 94 percent of Yolo is agriculture. &#8220;There&#8217;s something kind of sexy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2527&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ripley&#8217;s and the Hyatt: A strange, cultural connection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLS NEWSPAPERS: April 27, 2012 &#8220;I have traveled in 201 countries, and the strangest thing I saw was man.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Ripley Truer words were never spoken, to coin another phrase. During much of the 20th century, Robert Ripley roamed the planet, looking for oddities to include in his cartoon &#8220;Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not!&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2422&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LaMorinda: The next wine region?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; HILLS NEWSPAPERS: April 12, 2012 The Bay Area is blessed with the richest wine regions in California. LaMorinda wants to be one of them. Granted, there&#8217;s no celebrated wine trail yet &#8212; but the growers in Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda have big plans for the future. &#8220;We believe that we can have really good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2446&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The other &#8220;wild&#8221; side of Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTCLARION: April 12, 2012 Spring is in the air &#8212; get a big whiff. It&#8217;s the heady aroma of hot dogs and beer, the perfume of cherry blossoms and eucalyptus in the breeze. It&#8217;s wildflowers springing from the meadows and foothills and forest floors. I&#8217;ve just come back from Texas with wildflower envy. You should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2435&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLS NEWSPAPERS:March 29, 2012 In all the Bay Area, who knew that Half Moon Bay would be a great place to pick up chicks? I&#8217;m talking about the feathered kind, the kind popping up in coops around the Bay. Day in and day out, Half Moon Bay Feed and Fuel sells more baby chicks than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2409&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Gaga&#8217;s good taste</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLS NEWSPAPERS: March 16, 2012 I never thought I&#8217;d say it, but Lady Gaga has good taste. She had lunch at one of my favorite restaurants recently, ordering just what I would have ordered &#8212; muscles, frites and a Fig Kiss. Can&#8217;t a girl get a martini without the world knowing about it? Apparently not, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2391&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Driving a Duck Boat &#8211; all it&#8217;s quacked up to be &#8211; and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALAMEDA JOURNAL: March 8, 2012 You think you&#8217;ve got a tough commute? Try driving a boatload of people around San Francisco &#8212; then ending up in the Bay. Alamedan Doug Perry works for Ride the Ducks, the company that takes tourists on those curious white boats on wheels. They&#8217;re actually updated versions of World War [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2381&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel with an eye towards retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLS NEWSPAPERS: March 3, 2012 Travel takes on a different purpose for those of us approaching our &#8220;golden years.&#8221; We size up a destination with retirement in mind, asking ourselves what it would be like to live somewhere other than here. In the last several years, I&#8217;ve known neighbors who&#8217;ve moved to Nashville, Tenn., Pittsburgh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2363&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Wanderer: Things we leave behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLS NEWSPAPERS: February 17, 2012 My husband left his pillow in the hotel room again. And he says I&#8217;m losing it. What is it about traveling that makes us forgetful? I&#8217;ve left cold creams and pajamas, glasses and even contact lenses in hotel rooms across this great planet. But a pillow? Who even travels with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2328&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jaguar commercials make Mare Island sexy again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONTRACOSTATIMES.COM: February 3, 2012 Not since its heyday has Vallejo&#8217;s Mare Island seen this kind of publicity. The once-bustling naval shipyard that was shut down in 1996 is the backdrop for a major TV ad campaign touting Jaguar. Three souped-up cars are playing &#8220;tag&#8221; on the ghostly streets of a shipyard gone silent. The Jags [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ginnyprior.com&#038;blog=5557963&#038;post=2296&#038;subd=ginnyprior&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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