Glenn Dobbs
"The Beach"
March 13, 2018 - Ever since Alex Garland’s seminal 1996 novel “The Beach”, Thailand has been a magnet for vagabond travelers in search of...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Frog sex
March 12, 2018 - ok mystery solved. The picture below is the pond outside our bungalow. Pretty right? For the last three nights there...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Thai cost of living expenses
March 12, 2018 - I was having trouble deciding which story to tell today. There are the cicadas that take performance enhancing drugs...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
She is better now
March 11, 2018 - Colleen has recovered and thanks for all the well wishes We spent the entire day at our bungalow as Colleen nursed to...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Never trust a duck
March 10, 2018 - Well it finally happened. My poor Colleen got food poisoning last night. She is better this morning. We narrowed it...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Long Tail Boats
March 10, 2018 - Here is another look at these iconic Thai Long Tail boats as we visit Phranang Beach. Their engines all sound different...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Do not feed the monkey
March 9, 2019 - They have one rule here. ‘Do not feed THE monkey’. However, there are way more of them than just one . We found these on...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Gibbons!
March 8, 2018 - We took a walk this morning around the cliff base where we are staying. I began to hear loud and distinct hooting calls....
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Getting lost here
March 7, 2018 - It is evening here at Railay Beach on the West coast of Thailand. It is still hard to believe we are here. We will be...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Thailand at the water's edge
March 6, 2018 - We made it to Thailand! Much more tomorrow. We had dinner on the beach and everyone had a napkin! We are not actually at...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 28, 20191 min read
Why no napkins?
March 5, 2018 - Our last night in Singapore. Walked along the harbor. The is the “Merlion” - The symbol or mascot of the country. So as...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 28, 20191 min read
A Holy Tooth
March 4, 2018 - This is a beautiful Buddhist temple in Singapore that was built in 1980 in the Teng dynasty style. Here is the thing- it...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 28, 20191 min read
Batman's favorite flower
March 3, 2018 - Quieter day today. We went to the National Orchid Center and saw the strangest flower I have ever seen. This is ‘Tacca...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 28, 20191 min read
Which would you rather?
March 4, 2018 - This is the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. It is an icon here in Singapore. I show it to ask an interesting question -...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 27, 20191 min read
A Cloud Forest
March 2, 2018 - Singapore sent Cheyenne Goh to the Winter Olympics this year. Cheyenne was the only athlete to represent this tiny...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 26, 20191 min read
The Burden of a Trophy Wife
March 1, 2018 - Ok this just happened. We were walking along and this random family on holiday from India asked to have their picture...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 26, 20191 min read
A Journey of 22,000 miles begins
March 1, 2018 - After 22 hours total in the air and celebrating my birthday over the Bay of Bengal, we arrived in Singapore. It is 80...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Farewell Canada!
September 19, 2017 - Farewell Canada". This leg of the 'Road to Bali' concludes today - tomorrow we head for home. We started in the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Think Different
September 18, 2017 - If you are looking at this post on a iPhone, then it was here where it all began. "In 1975, the 20-year-old Jobs and...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Stephen at Stanford
September 16-17 2017 - We visited with Stephen at Stanford University where he is working on a PhD in Geology. The campus is beautiful...
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