Ch-ch-ch-changes. Turn and face the strange. – David Bowie Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan. When a friend said he knew someone with an extra ticket to the Plant Page concert, I didn’t think of it as a date with Robie. When I bought Robie a simple, silver band for his birthday, … More When things didn’t work out the way we planned
Sometimes miracles come in pairs – Author Unknown If Spain holds a special place in my heart, Mexico has captured my soul. I’ve crossed Mexico’s borders more than any other nation except my own, studied the country’s culture, language and history, worked for Mexican hotels and even briefly called the place home. But I … More My lifelong love affair with Mexico
San Sebastian is what Walt Disney might have created if he’d been God instead of an ambitious American. – Let’s Go: Spain, Portugal and Morocco 1988 The nightmares started soon after Robie booked our flight to Spain. In the dream I’m bundled in a wool coat trudging down a busy sidewalk desperate to reach … More Looking for a place to call home in Green Spain
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. – Loren Eiseley On long road trips, Robie and I pass the time making lists. Much like Maria Von Trapp we make a game – if not a song – of our favorite things naming great meals in Paris and Mexico City, … More Top 10: Aquariums
The world is a book, and those who don’t travel read only one page. – St. Augustine People don’t write books about travel any more. And why would they? Digital photo albums pop up to remind us of places we’ve been while social media provides a steady stream of other peoples’ selfies in front … More A Walk in the Woods
Livin’ la Vida Loca – Ricky Martin Robie and I sat in the longest line of traffic either of us had ever seen. Behind the line of cars, we lingered at a standstill and kept time by the dozen or so vehicles that flew at us every 12-15 minutes. But on our side of the … More When the only lifeline is a two-lane highway
It’s the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine) – R.E.M. The pandemic changed everything. Almost as soon as Robie announced he was thinking of retiring “sometime in the future, in the next few years, eventually but not soon,” I booked a trip to Costa Rica for what was … More When the world stood still
It goes without saying that [traveling] anywhere is an adventure. London is as unique to Kansas City as Rome is to Madrid. People in Sydney perceive things differently from the folks in Vienna. What works in Toronto or Frankfurt probably won’t work in Athens. (In fact, it won’t.) – Max Danger, The Adventures of … More Willie Dare, Perpetual Alien
Reid & Robie 