by Matthew Allison | Jan 23, 2009 | Mexico, North America
A Layover Adventure: Climbing the Pyramids of Teotihuacán In January 2009, with a 10-hour layover in Mexico City on my way to Tijuana from Panama, I decided to make the most of my time by visiting Teotihuacán. Taking a combination of metro and public bus from the...
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 | Jul 25, 2008 | North America
If someone were to ask me which American National Park is the wildest, I would say Denali National Park. First of all, it is in the State of Alaska, which automatically makes it wild, then there are the other factors that help it to solidify this designation in my...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 23, 2007 | Mexico
July 2007: The Yucatan Peninsula is one of my favorite regions of Mexico because of its Mayan ruins, jungles, freshwater cenotes with underground cave diving and it is also a great place to swim with whale sharks in La Isla Holbox. My brother Jesse and I flew 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...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 10, 2006 | Mexico, North America
February 2006: A Magical Encounter with Baja’s Grey Whales Sometimes, the best trips are the ones right in your backyard, and for me, Baja, Mexico has always been one of those places. Few experiences compare to a journey south to the lagoons during the grey whale...
