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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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Feb 1310 min read
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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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Feb 76 min read
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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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Feb 63 min read
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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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Feb 34 min read
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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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Jan 306 min read
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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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Jan 285 min read
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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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Jan 256 min read
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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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Jan 243 min read
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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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Jan 235 min read
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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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Jan 205 min read
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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 26, 20246 min read
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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 22, 20243 min read
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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 19, 20245 min read
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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 14, 20242 min read
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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 12, 20245 min read
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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 6, 20243 min read
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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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Feb 4, 20246 min read
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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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Jan 31, 20243 min read
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Chile
January 26-27, 2024 “These vast piles of snow, which never melt, and seem destined to last as long as the world holds together, present a...
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Jan 27, 20244 min read
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Ice (Patagonia Part 3)
January 23, 2024 “Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows...
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Jan 24, 20242 min read
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