by Matthew Allison | Jan 5, 2025 | Africa
December 2024: I recently visited The Gambia for the second time as part of a week-long trip to Mali, with the main goal of reaching Timbuktu. My first visit to The Gambia was entirely accidental—the result of a flat airplane tire that stranded me there...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 9, 2024 | Africa
December 2024: The very name Timbuktu evokes the glory days of exploration and adventure—a distant land of gold and unimaginable wealth hidden deep within the vast Sahara Desert. For centuries, it eluded European explorers, many of whom paid with their lives in their...
by Matthew Allison | Apr 27, 2024 | Africa, Default
April 2024: Morocco was a country I’d visited briefly in the past but had never explored in depth. I used to think it was too touristy for my taste, with so many other North African countries offering more intrepid experiences. But I wanted to give Morocco a fair...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 19, 2023 | Africa
January 2023: For Paula’s birthday trip, we embarked on an unforgettable journey to the beautiful Portuguese-speaking islands of Cabo Verde and the Azores. The accessibility between these two stunning archipelagos made it a seamless trip, with direct flights offered...
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 | Africa
March 2022: As part of a multi-country Africa trip, my wife, friend and I visited Malawi for 3 nights/4 days. For me the main appeal of Malawi is lake Malawi, a clear freshwater lake with the highest diversity of tropical freshwater fish in the world and I made this...