I certainly wanted to see Cairo and its magnificent pyramids in broad daylight, but sometimes life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. First, Some Travel Details, Woes and Challenges Here are some travel notes about scheduling difficult trips. You can skip this if you like, by scrolling down until you the first…
View More
I wrapped up 2018 and brought in the new year with a huge voyage featuring one of the most aggressive and jam-packed schedules that I’ve ever put together. Here’s a quick recap: Fun with Geography: The Path Geographically, this was one of the most interesting and complex routes I’d ever assembled. I’d start in Cairo…
View More
One of These Things is not Like the Others Martinique was a quick but worthwhile stop on the way home from tagging my last country in the Americas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. At the time (November 2018), there was no direct flight to and from St. Vincent (except from New York which was out…
View More
The Long Road In I was just about to lose my patience, as I watched in horror as the meter in my taxi from the airport to the hotel surpassed the $100 mark. I’d been in this damn car for an hour and couldn’t take another roundabout. Just when I thought “we must be here…
View More
My 2016 trip to Nauru was everything I expected and more…far, fun, bizarre…it was so cool to be in a place virtually no one else goes. I published a blog on Nauru when I returned and received mostly positive feedback from Nauruans, telling me they were glad that someone finally wrote about the beauty of…
View More
“I’d tried and failed before, but this time, nothing would stop me. St. Vincent and her Grenadines was the last country of the Americas left to visit, and I was determined to make it there if I had to swim.” Last One in is a Rotten Egg Part of trying to visit all 193 countries…
View More
Most of my vacations consist of parachuting into unstable nations and spending my 24-48 hours there just trying to make it out alive; or logging in 25,000+ steps exploring a giant metropolis. I rarely have time to actually relax–I’m on the move always! And even when I do manage to make it to a tropical…
View More
My Mission It is my life’s mission to visit every country in the world. All 196 of them. I can’t remember exactly when this goal materialized, but it was a spin-off from my “I want to see every country in North and South America before I turn 40” challenge. There’s just one little problem. I…
View More