Welcome to Latitude 65

Jubilados Savouring the Journey

We (‘Spice’ and ‘Magellan’) are a newly retired couple with a passion for active independent travel. One of our first trips after turning 65 was to Spain, which explains its melodious word for retirees—jubilados—in our tagline. What will you get by taking vicarious trips with us? Ideas, insight and inspiration.

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Banksy: Anonymous Artivist

Graffti inserts itself like the blade of a knife between creation and destruction, between publicity and furtiveness, between word and image, cartoon, icon, and hieroglyph.

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The Notorious Gang Ranch

Tighten your stirrups for the wild ride through the legendary story of the Gang Ranch in British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin where Magellan and I drove

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Giving Thanks to Javier

The van slowed to a stop. Never mind that we were on a sinuous road, narrowed on both sides by Menorca’s parets secas, mortarless stone

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