by Matthew Allison | Nov 25, 2008 | Europe
November 2008: Traveling to Bosnia was one of the highlights of my two weeklong backpacking trip across the Balkans with my friend Dan because I was able to put faces and names to the victims, I watched in the news reports during the 90s when I was a young kid. I not...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 22, 2008 | Europe
November 2008: As part of a 17-day trip across the Balkans, my friend Dan and I spent 3 days in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dubrovnik and its old city dating back to the 7th century made of marble and stone seated along the picturesque mountainous of Adriatic Coast was an...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 10, 2008 | Europe
November 2008: As part of a two-week journey through the Balkans and Eastern Europe, my friend Dan and I visited Montenegro, one of the world’s newest countries. Formerly part of Yugoslavia, Montenegro gained independence in 2006. We traveled overland by public bus...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 4, 2008 | Europe
November 2008: Visiting Athens and standing before the ancient Acropolis, with its towering Parthenon, was a must-do for me—just as it is for most travelers. The Acropolis, dating back thousands of years to the 5th century B.C., is one of those landmarks you see...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 1, 2008 | Caribbean
November 2008: I had been obsessed with visiting Haiti ever since watching the movie, The Serpent and the Rainbow, where the main character, Bill Pullman visits Haiti and has a voodoo spell cast on to him turning him into a zombie. The movie was my introduction to...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 28, 2008 | Asia
Singapore: Gateway to the Sumatran Wilderness A Strategic and Comfortable Transit Point September 2008: To reach Sumatra, Tim and I used Singapore as our transit hub, both coming from California and again on the way home.It turned out to be an ideal place to...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 1, 2008 | Asia
Gunung Leuser National Park Tracking Wild Tigers in Sumatra September 2008 – A Lifelong Obsession Comes to Life I have been obsessed with tigers for as long as I can remember. Their stealth, power, elegance, and beauty are beyond compare. Over the years, my pursuit of...
by Matthew Allison | Jul 25, 2008 | North America
If someone were to ask me which American National Park is the wildest, I would say Denali National Park. First of all, it is in the State of Alaska, which automatically makes it wild, then there are the other factors that help it to solidify this designation in my...
by Matthew Allison | May 5, 2008 | Australia & Pacific
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...
by Matthew Allison | May 2, 2008 | Australia & Pacific
May 2008: I set out in search of an island in Oceania that still clung to its old way of life. In a world shaped by globalization and rapid change, I have always felt that seeking out the world’s last traditional cultures is a race against time. This is...
