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, 2019 | Mexico, North America
The World’s Largest Cave Shaft February 2019: Over a decade and a half ago, I watched the nature series Planet Earth on Discovery Channel. The episode on the worlds greatest caves opened with the narrator, famed English naturalist David Attenborough, saying...
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 | Jan 20, 2018 | Mexico
January 2018: In my quest to see as much of my favorite country as possible, I booked a long weekend trip to Copper Canyon, the largest canyon in North America, which is even larger than the Arizona Grand Canyon. Along with my girlfriend and her mom, our plan was to...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 20, 2017 | Mexico, North America
January 2017: We are blessed to have Baja and its two wild rugged coastlines along the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez in our backyard, just south of where we live in San Diego. So, Paula and I try and visit a few times every year but most of the time we...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 2, 2016 | North America
Exploring the Deep South A Birthday Weekend Through New Orleans & MississippiJanuary 2016 To celebrate my wife’s birthday, her mom, a friend, and I took a four-day road trip through Louisiana and Mississippi. The journey began in the lively heart of New Orleans...
