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		<title>Three Weeks in Six Cities: Looking Back on &#8220;The Before Times&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/January20_02.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="January" /></div><div>Wanderland Workshops are here! Don’t miss our very first, a Travel in 2021 Workshop&#160;on Thursday, February 11th 2021, from 5-7PM EST! Where we’re at: I’m recapping my travels in 2020, including this criss-cross of my home country from January through February 2020.&#160; It&#8217;s almost unimaginable in our current state of the world: In just three weeks [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/three-weeks-in-six-cities-looking-back-on-the-before-times/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great Escape: Months 101 + 102 + 103</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Roundup.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Roundup" /></div><div>Where we’re at: I’ve wrapped up blogging the fourth quarter of 2019, of which this is a huge roundup. What a weird time to look back on. These first three months after losing my mom were, largely, a fog. I guess much of the year was. As the world transitioned from fall into winter, I started [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-101-102-103/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great Escape: Months 62 and 63 Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Roundup.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Months 62 + 63" /></div><div>Time to dive back into roundups! Since I’m working my way through my black hole of content from August of 2016 to April of 2017, that means we’ve got roundups to catch up on as well. Apologies for the delay, but I suppose better is late than never… right? And to answer the inevitable questions, I [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/great-escape-months-62-63-roundup/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Diving into the Decatur Cornfields</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Decatur.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Decatur" /></div><div>The black hole of content from August of 2016 to April of 2017 &#8212; when I jumped forward to blog the summer of 2017 as it was happening &#8212; have been haunting me. I&#8217;m so excited the time has finally come for me to catch up on them! I can&#8217;t wait to turn my detailed notes [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/diving-decatur-cornfields/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chicago By Mat, By Board, and By Rooftop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Untitled-1.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Chicago" /></div><div>The black hole of content from August of 2016 to April of 2017 &#8212; when I jumped forward to blog the summer of 2017 as it was happening &#8212; have been haunting me. I&#8217;m so excited the time has finally come for me to catch up on them! I can&#8217;t wait to turn my detailed notes [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/summer-in-chicago/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Great Escape: Month 74 Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Roundup-1.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Roundup" /></div><div>What a wild month this one was! I wrapped up a nice little period of family time and personal travel for the first few weeks before shifting gears into a busy period of back-to-back work campaigns to round out the summer. It was also a weird month as it found me saying goodbye to my East [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-74-roundup/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wedding Bells in the Windy City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/WindyCity.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Windy City Wedding" /></div><div>It&#8217;s become somewhat of a tradition now &#8212; when a close friend or a family member sets a wedding date, I get a text within seconds of the ink drying on the contract. You&#8217;re the first to know, they&#8217;ll tell me, considering my crazy calendar &#8212; so you better be there! How could I not comply? [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wedding-ravenswood-event-center-chicago/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Chicago.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Chicago Travel Blog" /></div><div>You&#8217;ve got to love a city where you can fiercely debate the merits of various pizza styles, go from sand to skyscrapers in moments, and celebrate holidays with such ferocity that you dye your river to match it. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about Chicago &#8212; though I must admit it&#8217;s taken me a while to appreciate [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/where-to-eat-and-drink-in-chicago/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Down Home Wedding in Decatur</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Decatur.jpg" width="974" height="415" title="" alt="Decatur Illinois Wedding" /></div><div>Are those wedding bells you hear in the distance? I hear them too &#8212; it&#8217;s definitely wedding season in Wanderland these days! This summer, I attended four. While that might seem like quite a few, they were all so incredibly unique and different, pretty much the only thing they all had in common was that two [&#8230;]</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><em>Source: <a href="https://www.alexinwanderland.com/decatur-flapper-wedding/" target="_blank">Alex In Wanderland</a></em></div>]]></description>
		
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