by Matthew Allison | May 30, 2011 | Bucket List Adventures, Australia & Pacific, Most Dangerous Encounters, Most Unique Travel Experiences, Tribes/Unique Cultures, Volcanoes
Joe Versus the Volcano I often relate my travels to a movie, and for my trip to Vanuatu, one of my favorite movies, Joe vs the Volcano comes to mind. Joe vs the Volcano is about a young guy-Tom Hanks, who is living a passionless life until he believes he is dying and...
by Matthew Allison | May 3, 2011 | Bucket List Adventures, Australia & Pacific, Hiking Trips, Most Dangerous Encounters, Most Unique Travel Experiences, Rainforest, Tribes/Unique Cultures
May 2011: After working as an extra in the Movie the Thin Red Line, a movie about the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in northern Australia when I was 20 years old, I knew I also had to visit the real Guadalcanal and see the jungles and hills...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 27, 2009 | Asia, Most Dangerous Encounters, Wildlife
November 2009: I decided to return to Nepal for a week to visit Chitwan National Park and try finding a wild tiger and rhino after my failed attempt during my first visit to Western Nepal’s Bardia National Park in 1997. Chitwan was a back-up plan to visiting the...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 3, 2008 | Expeditions, Central America, Most Dangerous Encounters, Rainforest, Tribes/Unique Cultures, Wildlife
Darien Gap December 2008/January 2009: Few places in the world are as mysterious and alluring as the dense, foreboding jungles of the Darien Gap. This is a jungle so deep, mountainous and hostile that it is the only gap between the trans-American highway that runs...
by Matthew Allison | Jul 25, 2008 | Mountains, Hiking Trips, North America, Most Dangerous Encounters, Wildlife
If someone were to ask me which American National Park is the wildest, I would say Denali National Park. First of all, it is in the State of Alaska, which automatically makes it wild, then there are the other factors that help it to solidify this designation in my...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 11, 2006 | Africa, Most Dangerous Encounters
September 2006: As part of a 10-day trip that involved cage diving with great White sharks in South Africa, and a canoe safari down the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe, my friend matt and I traveled through Zambia for 4 days from Victoria Falls to Lusaka and onwards to...