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Sometimes, Just Sometimes you go against your instincts and…..

Posted on by Dennis Davis
We had a very easy flight to Mexico and immigration and boarder control in the tourist region of the Yucatan and the ease of which it operates is academic. Our return home however, would be much different. We flew to Mexico on Jet blue and it was comfortable and prompt and it lulled me into a sense of comfort that I should have known my old nemesis Spirit Airlines would destroy.… continue reading
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Playa Centro and Taqueria Erika

Posted on by Dennis Davis
After a couple of intense days of exploration and adventure it was time to slow things down. We were, after all, in paradise and it seemed a waste to rush it all away. We slowly got ourselves up, in no hurry to do anything, as all of our scheduled events had been fulfilled.… continue reading
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A Sunrise, Some Art, and an evening in the neighborhood.

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After falling asleep very early the night before, I awoke around 5:45 to a quite morning. The sun rises at closer to 7 and I wanted to catch at least one. The sun rises on the ocean side of the island about a block from our apartment and unobstructed.… continue reading
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Oh, how I go back to the place I was first lost.

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Mexico has such a potent presence in my psyche. She was the first place I saw a structure thousands of years old, the first place I lost myself in a world completely foreign from my own, the first time I walked the streets of a city with 32 million inhabitants where the majority were impoverished.… continue reading
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Sharks, Turtles and Iguanas oh my!

Posted on by Dennis Davis
I awoke just before dawn and stepped outside to see our small Colonia street begin to wake up. Off the terrace, I could see a woman sweeping the sidewalk in front of her doorway. Another headed off to work. Further up, headlights lit up as a motorbike purred to life and rolled down the otherwise quiet street.… continue reading
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Isla Mujeres – Woman Island

Posted on by Dennis Davis
Many years ago, when I was the Chef at Sala in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta. I had a bartender who worked for me named Rafael Barragán. We called him Sapo (frog). Because his weathered face and mushy features in his 60’s, gave him this undeniable resemblance to said creature.… continue reading
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Spring….Embrace It, Frolic In it, Soak In It’s Rays!

Posted on by Dennis Davis
We have a saying here in the south, April Showers bring May flowers. To understand it is to live it. That transitional period in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and the Carolina’s that splits the temperate winter with the onslaught of Summer. That magical time we get to witness here in the beautiful southeastern United States, it’s beauty rivaled only by the majesty of Autumn.… continue reading
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Einstein Had It All Wrong.

Posted on by Dennis Davis
I landed in San Diego Friday night at 11:30, and It’s been a while since I posted much content, so I was hoping a trip to Southern California would quickly get me back into the groove of writing. Ocean Beach, however, was proving to make writing a nearly impossible task.… continue reading
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A Capital Morning.

Posted on by Dennis Davis
It was 5:30 in the morning when my alarm clock belted out its revelry to wake and rise on this chilly early spring morning of March 28th, 2019. I arose at this earliest of hours not for work or pleasure, but to experience and be a part of a monumental moment in not only the life of Love Joy United Methodist church, but also in the life of my youngest daughter.… continue reading
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Ngũ Hành Sơn – The Marble Mountains.

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When the elevator door opened, the site, I must say, was pretty impressive. I don’t know if it was the strange newness of everything to me. But I had a sense of awe almost everywhere I went in Vietnam. As I walked off the elevator, I passed by the ticket booth selling passes to return down the elevator.… continue reading
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