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Feb 1310 min read
Encuentros Cercanos
February 10-12, 2025 “You can dance, I promise” ― Tequila We are sitting in front of our tent, which in of it self is a weird thing for...
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gldobbs
Feb 76 min read
Rolling in the Deep
February 4-5, 2025 “How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the...
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gldobbs
Feb 63 min read
Isla Espiritu Santo
February 3, 2025 “I’m going on an adventure!” - Bilbo Baggins So the Whale Shark plans were a bust. And while I enjoyed a symphonic...
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gldobbs
Feb 34 min read
Learning To Walk Like A Dog
“The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment” -Robert Falcon Scott February 2, 2025 So they left three days ago! One of the...
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gldobbs
Jan 306 min read
Wonders
“Today, I can assure you from my own experience that we are not what we eat, nor what we think: we are what we dream.” ― Sergio Magana...
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gldobbs
Jan 285 min read
Postcards from the Hinterland
Tulum January 26-28, 2025 “Do NOT throw the coconuts.” – Sign post at entrance to an archeological site We left the city of Merida ...
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gldobbs
Jan 256 min read
Uxmal
January 25, 2025 “Their were no aliens, wizards, sorcerers, magicians, or….witches. It was just we Mayans in our capacity for great...
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gldobbs
Jan 243 min read
The Day the Earth Ended
January 23, 2025 “Life will find a way” - Actor Jeff Goldblum from the original Jurassic Park film We took a taxi north of the city about...
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gldobbs
Jan 235 min read
The Second Tallest Man in the Yucatan
January 22, 2025 “It’s like Amazon.com …only alive” Colleen Dobbs We were crossing the street heading south across the now familiar Plaza...
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gldobbs
Jan 205 min read
Another City, Another Walk
January 20, 2025 “But I am not running away. I am running toward…toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was...
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gldobbs
Jan 194 min read
Flyin’ South
“You cannot make everyone happy all the time. You are not a taco” Mexican Axiom January 19, 2025 It was so cold when we left. We...
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May 4, 20244 min read
In My Eyes
May 2024 “We said we'd walk together, baby, come what may That come the twilight, should we lose our way If as we're walking, a hand...
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Feb 26, 20246 min read
There Are No Straight Lines
February 24-26, 2024 “People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the...
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Feb 22, 20243 min read
Walking in Wakanda
February 21-22, 2024 “won·der /ˈwəndər/ noun: wonder - a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful,...
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Feb 19, 20245 min read
The JuJuy Highway
JuJuy ( - Pronounced “Who-whoie”) February 18-19, 2024 “There is no truth to the rumor that the local school mascot for the JuJuy...
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Feb 14, 20242 min read
Quebrada de las Conchas
February 13-14, 2024 “This natural masterpiece stands as a testament to the remarkable forces that have shaped our Earth and invites...
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Feb 12, 20245 min read
Good Food, Great Wine, & Giant Jesus
“‘Mendoza’ and ‘wine’, ‘wine’ and ‘Mendoza’. To an Argentinean, the words are almost interchangeable “ -The South American Specialists...
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Feb 6, 20243 min read
Unexpected Pleasures
February 4-5, 2024 “In the old times, we made up rhymes To sing ourselves to sleep at night It was wild means, singing horse dreams Did...
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Feb 4, 20246 min read
Covid, Colleen, and the 10% Moment
January 31-February 3, 2024 “We are going to have to agree to disagree” -Colleen Dobbs “Always remember in every situation your wife is...
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Jan 31, 20243 min read
Three Volcanoes
January 31, 2024 “Finding fresh seafood in Chile is like finding chlamydia at Burning Man….it’s everywhere!”---Anthony Bourdain Next to...
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