sentences:  Upon his release from active duty by the Navy in 1945, Dodge left San Francisco and set out for Guatemala by car with his wife and daughter, beginning his second career as a travel writer.The Dodge family's misadventures on the road through Mexico are hilariously documented in "How Green Was My Father" (Simon & Schuster, 1947).His Latin American experiences also produced a second series character, expatriate private investigator and tough-guy adventurer Al Colby, who first appears in "The Long Escape" (Random House, 1948).