by Matthew Allison | May 28, 2022 | Europe
May 2022: Tracing Empires in Eastern Europe From Roman Ruins to Communist Relics on the Road Through Hungary Completing the Map In May 2022, I returned to Eastern Europe with a specific goal: to visit the last countries I had left in Europe. After years of weaving...
by Matthew Allison | May 22, 2022 | Europe
Completing Eastern Europe: A Final Journey to Estonia A Personal Milestone May 2022: This trip marked a personal milestone — Estonia was the final country in Eastern Europe that I had yet to visit.It felt like the closing of a long, adventurous chapter of one of my...
by Matthew Allison | Apr 18, 2022 | Africa
March 2022: As part of a multi-country African trip, my wife, friend, and I visited Burundi. It was the last country in the region that I had not visited, and even though I was miles from the border in Rwanda years earlier-Tracking Wild Chimpanzees and Observing the...
by Matthew Allison | Apr 4, 2022 | Europe
April 2022: On our return flight to the U.S. from Luanda, Angola—Tribal Stay with Muila People in Southern Angola | Venture The Planet via Brussels Airlines—we had a five-hour layover in Brussels. Rather than wait idly at the airport, we decided to make the most of...
by Matthew Allison | Apr 4, 2022 | Africa
Lake Malawi Interlude on a Multi-Country African Journey March 2022: As part of a longer, multi-country journey through Africa, my wife, a friend, and I carved out three nights and four days to visit Malawi. Our time was brief by design, but intentional—this was a...
