by Matthew Allison | Sep 14, 2014 | North America, Most Dangerous Encounters, Wildlife
September 2014: Alaska is hands down one of my favorite places on Earth. Its wilderness and wildlife are just simply unparalleled. I have been to Alaska multiple times and I will keep returning. On this particular trip I chose to visit the Alaskan Arctic, which is the...
by Matthew Allison | Apr 3, 2014 | North America, Most Dangerous Encounters
April 2014: On a long weekend trip, I flew out to Richmond, Virginia to meet my brother living in Charlottsville to do some exploring of the Appalachian Mountains. Together we explored some old homesteads, civil war battlefields and drove into West Virginia looking...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 9, 2014 | Expeditions, Central America, Most Dangerous Encounters, Tribes/Unique Cultures
About Las Mosquitia February 2014: The La Mosquitia region of Honduras is the largest rainforest in the Americas north of the Amazon. It is a largely roadless area of indigenous people, rare wildlife populations mostly extinct elsewhere and lost Mayan cities, many...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 4, 2013 | Asia, Europe, Most Dangerous Encounters, Most Unique Travel Experiences, Tribes/Unique Cultures
Visiting exotic cultures and tribes is a driving motivation for my travels. I absolutely love staying with tribes of people that still dress uniquely and live very different lives from my own despite the globalizing world where everything is becoming the same and all...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 14, 2011 | Africa, Most Dangerous Encounters, Tribes/Unique Cultures, Wildlife, Volcanoes
November 2011: My friend Sterling and I spent a week in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to see the Ituri forest. Visiting the vast, mysterious forests of equatorial Congo was a goal of mine for as long as I could remember. To visit the Ituri is to follow in the...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 8, 2011 | Africa, Most Dangerous Encounters, Wildlife
Serengetti November 2011: As part of a larger trip involving Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, I visited Tanzania for a week to see the migration of wildebeest across the Serengeti. To keep the cost down, I organized a budget tour of the Serengeti through...
