Glenn Dobbs
South Along the Tim Tam Road
January 15-16, 2023 “I’m going on a adventure!” - Bilbo Baggins The contract was signed and we walked out to our rental car. I had the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 12, 20233 min read
Waka To The Haka
January 13, 2023 “ I want my warm nuts” - Ricky Gervais on liking First Class when flying I have been here before. That was the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 10, 20235 min read
Is it Lovely?
January 8-9, 2023 “Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven.” -John McCarthy “April 28,...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 9, 20234 min read
Eyes Wide Shut
January 7, 2023 “I shut my eyes in order to see.” Paul Gauguin We traveled Southwest about 1/3 the way around the island to our eventual...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 6, 20233 min read
Thalassophobia
January 5-6, 2023 “French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The...
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Glenn Dobbs
Dec 7, 20223 min read
Prologue
December 7, 2022 “Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are...
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Glenn Dobbs
Aug 30, 20222 min read
Teewinot
“The grand lift of the Tetons is … a primal gesture of the Earth beneath a greater sky.” - Ansel Adams I would be remiss if I did not...
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Glenn Dobbs
Aug 29, 20223 min read
The Closing Argument
“Yellowstone is symbolic of “America’s Best Idea.” Its wildlife is a sight many Americans travel many miles to see. Its geology...
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Glenn Dobbs
Aug 27, 20223 min read
The Next Day
“Beyond the reach of Human art” - Thomas Moran - a 19th century painter trying to describe the Yellowstone Valley. His paintings were...
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Glenn Dobbs
Aug 26, 20223 min read
That First Morning
“When the park shall have been made accessible to the pleasure-seekers of the world, it will be a satisfaction not to be derived from...
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Glenn Dobbs
Aug 25, 20222 min read
Into the Hole
“My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.” - Miguel Ferrer I really don’t know much about Wyoming other than its...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 11, 20223 min read
Notre Voyage Est Terminé
July 11, 2022 “At the next roundabout, take the second exit…” - By far the most common phrase we heard from Google maps on this long...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 9, 20225 min read
To Top It Off
July 8, 2022 ”Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 6, 20222 min read
Dichotomous Travel
July 6, 2022 “Oh thank God, we are back to the France I like…” - Colleen Dobbs How can any reasonable person complain about being on the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 3, 20225 min read
Some Things Are Louder Than Chickens
July 3, 2022 “….waving through a window” — Dear Evan Hansen It was the quality of the cars that I first noticed. This was not a casual...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 1, 20223 min read
The Last Day in Illyria
July 1, 2022 “So it goes on, a lament for a simpler, cheaper, less crowded world that may or may not have existed except in nostalgic...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 30, 20228 min read
The Undiscovered Country - 6 days in Provence
“And, as for the oil, it is a masterpiece. You’ll see. Before dinner that night, we tested it, dripping it onto slices of bread that had...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 25, 20222 min read
La Cite
“Yet could I these two days have spent. While still the autumn sweetly shone, Ah me! I might have died content when I looked on...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 24, 20223 min read
This Is Us
“We then wed our lithofacies analysis with systematic detrital zircon sampling to assess the role depositional environments play on...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 23, 20224 min read
The Dordogne and Something for Doug
“When I married Eleanor, I thought: ‘You lucky man. The richest woman in the world. She owns the Aquitaine, the greatest province on the...
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