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  • October 28, 2024September 29, 2025
  • 20 Comments on A Series Of Unfortunate Events

A Series Of Unfortunate Events

As we’ve been traveling and writing, I’ve made an effort to include stories from our past lives when they intersected in some way with our current situation. Like finding a model of a pyramid in…

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  • September 3, 2024May 10, 2025
  • 10 Comments on And What Have We Learned?

And What Have We Learned?

My dear friend Whip challenged me with a writing prompt. “You’re world travelers now. How have your travels changed your perspective? What are the top five things you’ve learned about yourself or the world on…

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  • May 28, 2023October 4, 2024
  • 6 Comments on Tales Of The Quintana Roo

Tales Of The Quintana Roo

Our more worldly readers will know that our current location, Chetumal, is in the state of Quintana Roo, as is the rest of the Riviera Maya (Cancun, Cozumel, Tulum…). I love that the name sounds…

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  • March 20, 2023October 31, 2024
  • 2 Comments on The Ghost Of Xochimilco Past

The Ghost Of Xochimilco Past

When I was 13, my parents took me out of school for a year to traverse North America in a travel trailer. My father had had a health scare, so to reduce the stress level…

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  • February 22, 2023December 5, 2024
  • 5 Comments on Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán

Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán

I’ll confess to a fraught relationship with colonial architecture. On the one hand, there are plenty of breathtaking, soaring monuments to… the other hand. Early in our time together, Dorothy and I thought it would…

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