by Matthew Allison | Aug 17, 2013 | Caves/Tunnels, Bucket List Adventures, Australia & Pacific, Haunted Places, Most Unique Travel Experiences
August 2013: Easter Island or the Polynesian name for the island, Rapa Nui has been a dream travel destination of mine ever since childhood. It was always one of those mystical places featured in documentaries about strange and mysterious places. It is easy to...
by Matthew Allison | May 30, 2013 | Australia & Pacific, Wildlife
May 2013: I had long dreamed of visiting the Northern Territories outback of Australia that inspired the movie Crocodile Dundee and even though i lived in Australia for a few months when I was 20, I never made it out this way. Since I was in the neighborhood in...
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 12, 2011 | Australia & Pacific
Monuriki Island in Fiji, The island Where Tom Hanks Filmed Castaway This was my second trip to Fiji. During this trip I had only a few days, so I decided to make the best of it and take a boat out to the island where the movie Castaway was filmed and be left as...
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 | May 5, 2008 | Australia & Pacific, Swimming with Marine Mammals/Creatures
May 2008: After watching the Imax movie, ” The Living Sea,” which featured Palau’s idyllic and wild rock islands, a cluster of hundreds of small mushroom shaped jungle clad islands surrounded by heavenly turquoise green seas, I was sold on Palau. The...
