by Matthew Allison | Jul 10, 2019 | Caribbean
A Layover Adventure in Antigua In July 2019, during a day-long layover between our flights from: Montserrat Island – Exploring the Exclusion Zone where a volcano destroyed the capital city of Plymouth Dominica – Swimming with sperm whales, the world’s largest toothed...
by Matthew Allison | Jul 3, 2019 | Caribbean
Montserrat: The Pompeii of the Caribbean July 2019: Paula and I couldn’t visit the Lesser Antilles without stopping in Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory often called the Pompeii of the Caribbean. In the 1990s, a devastating volcanic eruption buried the...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 4, 2018 | Caribbean
February 2018: Swimming and diving with the ocean’s greatest creatures has been a lifelong passion of mine, and I’ve scoured the world’s waters to encounter humpback whales, sperm whales, whale sharks, great white sharks, manatees, belugas, and more. Among them,...
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 | Apr 1, 2006 | Caribbean, North America
April 2006: Cuba is one of the last remaining Marxist-communist countries in the world and the only one left in the Western Hemisphere. It is also an island that, at the time of my trip, I was forbidden to visit by my own government. These reasons alone made me want...
