by Matthew Allison | Jul 3, 2022 | North America
About Beluga Whales in Churchill In Search of the Beluga Whale A Childhood Fascination That Never Left Me One of the biggest motivators behind my travels has always been my desire to see wild animals—especially those I’ve been drawn to since childhood. That passion...
by Matthew Allison | May 29, 2022 | Europe
Chasing the Last of Eastern Europe: A Baltic Adventure May 2022: Touchdown in Lithuania In May 2022, I boarded a LOT Polish Airlines flight from Budapest, Hungary and landed in Vilnius, Lithuania just around noon.This trip marked a personal milestone — the Baltics...
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...
by Matthew Allison | Apr 3, 2022 | Africa
Reaching My Final Country in Continental Africa A Journey to Angola and the Tribes of the South In April 2022, my wife Paula, our friend Jimmie, and I traveled to Angola as part of a multi-country trip across Africa. Angola was our final stop, marking the completion...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 30, 2022 | Africa
March 2022/Day 1: My wife, a few friends and I arrived in Mauritius via the Seychelles-Seychelle Islands: Giant Tortoises, Stunning Sunsets and Incredibly Beautiful Boulder Studded White Sand Beaches | Venture The Planet, flying with Seychelles Air, with only two days...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 28, 2022 | Africa
March 2022: As part of a larger trip to visit the last of my African countries, my wife, friend Jimmie and I visited the Seychelles islands. From my home in San Diego, the Seychelles are about as far away as any destination in the world. To get there, we flew to...
