by Matthew Allison | Nov 6, 2022 | South America & Antarctica
November 2022: In early 2022, I first learned about the Cave of the Tayos when my brother, Jesse tagged me on a Facebook post from Outdoor Magazine with a message, “Let’s do this.”. According to the article, it is a cave not only full of tarantulas,...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 5, 2022 | South America & Antarctica
November 2022: To complete my visit of all South American countries, I felt that I would be leaving too much out by not visiting the Falkland Islands. The remote British archipelago with abundant wildlife that lies between Patagonia and Antarctica, fought over in a...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 2, 2022 | South America & Antarctica
November 2022: On a trip to South America, primarily to explore the Falkland Islands and Cueva de los Tayos in Ecuador, I also spent a few days in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From there, I visited Uruguay—my final South American country and one of the last United...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 16, 2022 | South America & Antarctica
January 2022: My three-day trip to Suriname was planned with a focus on 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. It had taken me 44 years to finally...
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 when waiting at the airport gate to board my plane as one person after another walked by, stopped to stare, and asked aloud, where is Suriname?...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 18, 2021 | South America & Antarctica
Paraguay-the Emptiness in Between the Places Tourists Want to Visit March 2021: I have always been intrigued by places that are seldom visited by foreign tourists, places where internet searches turn up mostly blank pages. Paraguay is no exception to this....
