When You Can’t Go to Iran… Go to Iraq Instead!
I've been looking forward to my two-week tour of Iran, from Tehran to Shiraz, for well over six months. Unfortunately, things are not always meant [...]
A Road Trip Through Yellowstone National Park [VIDEO]
In August, I had the absolute pleasure of visiting Yellowstone National Park for the first time. I had been visiting friends in Bozeman, Montana, and [...]
Tajikistan Costs: Summer 2016 Summary
Total Cost Per Day (18) % of Total Accommodation $230.83 $12.82 21.12% Entertainment $378.13 $21.01 34.60% Food $129.40 $7.19 11.84% Misc. $22.51 $1.25 2.06% Transport [...]
Skellig Michael is a Magical Site!
Remote. Raw. Remarkable. Skellig Michael is a perfect place to find solitude. Up from the bustling ocean is an early Christian monastery a group of [...]
A Stinky Durian Tour [VIDEO]
In the summer of 2015 I had the pleasure of attending Year of the Durian's Malaysia Durian Tour. For those of you that don't know, [...]
Let Mistake Fares Guide Your Travels
If you follow me on social media, you probably know I just returned from a three-and-a-half-week-long trip to Europe, hence the lack of posts for [...]
The Long Way Home from NYC
I'm going to a wedding in New York in a couple weeks and I'm taking the long way home back to Michigan. Once I found [...]
The Best Kept Secret in Wyoming
Wyoming always seemed to be one of those states that wasn't talked about a whole lot - at least outside of visits to Yellowstone National [...]
A Trip to the Disappearing Aral Sea – The Video
At the end of June I had the pleasure of undertaking the journey from Nukus, Uzbekistan to see the Aral Sea. I wrote a full [...]
A [Free] Visit to the Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble in Samarkand
The morning had been spent meandering through central-Samarkand visiting the Bibi-Xonum Mosque and the Mausoleum across the street with the eventual goal of visiting the [...]