Glenn Dobbs
This is for Jeff
January 19, 2023 “A lack of Love. Love needs to be present. A lack of it will diminish everything into mediocrity.” - Sir Richard Taylor...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 18, 20233 min read
He Wahi Haunga
January 18, 2023 “Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 17, 20236 min read
The Shire
January 17, 2023 “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jan 15, 20234 min read
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 27, 20221 min read
A Christmas Poem
December 27, 2022 So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope...
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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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