by Matthew Allison | Apr 3, 2014 | North America
April 2014: Chasing History and Hill Country in Appalachia A Weekend in Virginia and West Virginia with My Brother Reuniting in the Blue Ridge Over a long weekend, I flew to Richmond, Virginia to meet up with my brother, who was living in Charlottesville at the time....
by Matthew Allison | Feb 9, 2014 | Central America
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 | Dec 25, 2013 | Middle East
Christmas in Iraq and a Winter Ascent of Mount Nemrut December 2013: One of the key reasons I’ve been able to travel to most of the world while working full-time is my refusal to let any time off go to waste. With that mindset, I saw the Christmas holiday long weekend...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 16, 2013 | Asia
A Winter Ascent of Mount Nemrut December 2013: I traveled to central Turkey with one goal in mind—climbing Mount Nemrut in winter. Known for its towering ancient statues and massive stone heads, Nemrut is one of Turkey’s most famous archaeological sites, typically...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 15, 2013 | Asia
December 2013: I visited Georgia twice. Once on a 4-day trip to see Kazbegi and Gori in 2013 via a private car and driver I hired and again in 2018 to travel across thee far west of the country for a few days from Armenia to eastern Turkey. I knew that when I first...
