by Matthew Allison | May 5, 2024 | Europe
April 2024: As part of a 3 weeklong trip across Europe and Morocco, my family and traveled to the Normandy region of France for 3 days from Paris. We rented a car in Paris and the morning after I spent the first night of our trip in the Paris catacombs, we set off on...
by Matthew Allison | May 1, 2024 | Caves/Tunnels, Bucket List Adventures, Haunted Places, Most Unique Travel Experiences
April 2024: Every once in a while, I am still able to get a group of my friends together and do something amazing and adventurous. and spending a night exploring the illegal network of Paris Catacombs with my friends was an experience I will never forget. Fewer places...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 22, 2024 | Caribbean, Bucket List Adventures, North America, Most Unique Travel Experiences
February 2024: For years I planned this moment out so that I would visit my last United Nations recognized country (197/197) so that I when I did the event would coincide with my 6-month-old daughter, Indie also visiting her 1st country. As an added bonus...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 20, 2024 | Hiking Trips, Rainforest
February 2024: As part of a two-week trip to visit my last countries of the world 197/197, my nephew Dylan, friends Jimmie, Wes and I spent two nights in Saint Lucia with the main purpose to go canyoneering in the Holy Grail Canyon in the lush rainforests of northern...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 18, 2024 | Caribbean, North America, Volcanoes
February 2024: As part of a two-week 5 country trip in the Caribbean islands to visit my last 5 sovereign countries, my nephew, friend Jimmie and I spend almost 3 days in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a country that would seem the least touristy out of all...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 17, 2024 | Caribbean, North America
February 2024: I visited Grenada for three days as part of a 2 weeklong trip in the Caribbean to visit the last of 197 sovereign countries of the world. Grenada was one of the countries I looked forward to the most I am fascinated in revolutions and the cold war, and...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 20, 2024 | Caribbean, North America
February 2024: On what was my 2nd time to Trinidad and what was meant to be a full day and night in Trinidad was reduced to just one night because of a flight delay from Saint Lucia. Thus, unfortunately ruined my trip to an abandoned cold war era military radar...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 14, 2024 | Caribbean
January 2024: As part of a two-week trip to visit my last 5 sovereign countries in the world, I started the trip in Barbados with my nephew, Dylan and friend, Jimmie. In total we spent about 3 days in Barbados, and we drove around the island in a rental car exploring...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 6, 2024 | North America
I am very fortunate that I was able to spend half of my life growing up in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes with vast forests, and the mighty Lake Superior, world largest freshwater lake. No matter where I go in the world and I have seen some incredible places,...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 28, 2023 | Break-Away Republics, Europe
November 2023: During my previous trip to Cyprus a few years back, I was denied entry into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) because I didn’t have all of the required Covid documentation to enter. My intrigue to visit the break-away republic...