by Matthew Allison | Mar 15, 2018 | Asia
Journey to the Ghost City of Ani March 2018: My friends Jimmie, Frank, and I set off on a 12-day journey through Romania, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Georgia. The primary goal of this leg of the trip was to explore Armenia, but there was one place I couldn’t...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 14, 2018 | Europe
March 2018: Sleeping in Dracula’s Castle A Mission of Superstition, Shadows, and Sheer Stubbornness I returned to Romania with one goal: to spend the night in Dracula’s Castle. Back in 2005, I had missed my chance during my first trip across Transylvania—a journey...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 13, 2018 | Asia
March 2018: As part of a 10-day trip that also included Romania, Turkey and Nagorno Karabakh, my friends Jimmie and I spent 3 days traveling across Armenia. I hired an Armenian driver with an old Mercedes Benz to drive us across the country and the driver served...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 13, 2018 | Asia, Europe
Crossing into Nagorno-Karabakh: A Journey into a War-Torn Republic March 2018 – While traveling through Armenia, my friends Jimmie, Frank, and I decided to venture into the disputed and conflict-ridden breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR). At the time, the...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 4, 2018 | Caribbean
February 2018: Swimming and diving with the ocean’s greatest creatures has been a lifelong passion of mine, and I’ve scoured the world’s waters to encounter humpback whales, sperm whales, whale sharks, great white sharks, manatees, belugas, and more. Among them,...
