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Jeff Jenkins runs the blog, Instagram account, and growing online community Chubby Diaries.
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For one week in April, Jeff Jenkins’s Instagram went dark. The Austin-based travel influencer’s job is to document his global adventures with multiple posts per week which, because of COVID, had turned almost exclusively to statewide getaways since early in the pandemic. When he dropped off the grid earlier this month, his last photo showed him in Beaumont standing in front of the rainbow Frida Kahlo mural. But after a long year on local highways, Jenkins finally left Texas. He was a nine-hour flight away, across the Pacific Ocean in Maui with his wife and four close friends their longest trip since the beginning of the pandemic. He didn’t log in to social media, and he didn’t check email. Instead, he went scuba diving for the first time. He stargazed early one morning in Haleakala National Park. He watched whales bobbing in the ocean. And he indulged in lavi