top of page
Search


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...
gldobbs
Feb 6, 20253 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...
gldobbs
Feb 3, 20254 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...
gldobbs
Jan 30, 20256 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 ...
gldobbs
Jan 28, 20255 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...
gldobbs
Jan 25, 20256 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...
gldobbs
Jan 24, 20253 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...
gldobbs
Jan 23, 20255 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...
gldobbs
Jan 20, 20255 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...
-
Feb 26, 20246 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,...
-
Feb 22, 20243 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...
-
Feb 19, 20245 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...
-
Feb 14, 20242 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...
-
Feb 12, 20245 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...
-
Feb 6, 20243 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...
-
Feb 4, 20246 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...
-
Jan 31, 20243 min read


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...
-
Jan 27, 20244 min read


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...
-
Jan 24, 20242 min read


The Mountain (Patagonia Part 2)
January 21, 2024 “Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of useless. You climb to the summit and there...
-
Jan 23, 20243 min read


Stephen was right (Patagonia Part 1)
January 20, 2024 “I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through...
-
Jan 22, 20245 min read
bottom of page