Eighty-Year-Old Woman Travels the World with Just a Backpack

Interviewed last month by this reporter in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Tobin had just spent Holy Week in Antiqua, Guatemala, followed by three weeks traveling through Chile, including its famed Patagonia region. The day after her return from Chile, ... A year earlier at Christmas time, she stayed at the international hostel in Quito, Ecuador, down the street from the Hilton Hotel. A new addition to the hostel is a penthouse apartment. "I'm expecting I'll be back sometime. ...