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...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 23, 2022 | Mexico, North America
February 2022: During a three-day weekend, Paula and I flew out to Puebla on the direct flight from Tijuana on Volaris Airlines. The trip was re-scheduled from January due to all of coming down with Covid. Luckily Volaris had a great online re-scheduling process and...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 16, 2022 | South America & Antarctica
January 2022: My three-day trip to Suriname was planned with the primary goal of visiting the French territory of French Guiana. Since there are no direct flights from the USA to French Guiana, the most practical route was through Suriname. Having taken me 44 years to...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 7, 2022 | South America & Antarctica
January 2022: Suriname is a fascinating country that, I promise you, most people have never heard of. I discovered this firsthand while waiting at the airport gate in Miami to board my flight, as one person after another walked by, stopped to stare, and asked aloud,...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 19, 2021 | Africa
November 2021: When Plan B Became the Adventure From Angola Covid Cancellations to a Volcano in the Indian Ocean The Comoros Islands weren’t part of my original plan. I had wanted to visit for a while, but I didn’t expect them to become the centerpiece of this trip....
by Matthew Allison | Dec 17, 2021 | Africa
November 2021 – A Layover Gone Long in Maputo When Omicron Changed the Plan My original plan was simple: a one-night layover in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, en route from Botswana to Angola. But as was so often the case during the pandemic, Covid—and the newly...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 14, 2021 | Africa
November 2021: The earliest nature documentaries I can remember watching as a youth featured the natural marvels of the Kalahari Desert. This is a region of the world that has always intrigued me. It is not a desert in similarity to the Sahara. On the contrary, the...
