Sascha Grabow … avoiding watermelons on the road

Sascha has traveled to 193 countries On today’s episode, I welcome Sascha Grabow to Counting Countries. I noted Sascha’s name on the top of the Nomad Mania’s best traveled for quite some time. We spent ... read more

What You Need To Know When Traveling To Luanda, Angola

Luanda Angola Travel Overview. Angola is the 7th largest country in Africa with 25 million souls located on the Atlantic Ocean. While Angola has been inhabited since Paleolithic times and was later ... read more

Planes, Trains, and Visas

In this ongoing post, I will document my travels in regard to the minutia of recording my flights, hotels, visas, lounges and other travel trivia. January 7 Checking in at O’hare’s ... read more

Bhutan Group Trip

Bhutan Group Trip GlobalGaz and Counting Countries is excited to announce our first group trip to the mystical Kingdom of Bhutan. I have been fortunate to have visited Bhutan three times since 2005, and ... read more

Petro Marais … and the slow boat to Laos

Petro has traveled to 63 countries Embed Code: On today’s episode, I welcome Petro Marais to Counting Countries. Petro and I have been internet friends for over a year, as we are both fellow moderators in ... read more

Visting The Remote, Eastern Part Of Bhutan

Visiting East Bhutan. In the world of tourism, Bhutan is often an afterthought. Miniscule Bhutan located at the end of the Eastern Himalaya is squeezed between twin population bombs of China and India. ... read more

Visiting West Burkina Faso

Visiting West Burkina Faso. I didn’t expect I would be back in Burkina Faso for a second visit after my initial visit to Ouagadougou, the capital, in 2017. In November of 2018 I partook in a six country ... read more

A Year In Review 2018

A Year In Review 2018. It was a busy travel year in 2018 with some incredible experiences. After spending New Year’s Eve in NYC, I began my country collecting in Fiji (after my flight was delayed for three ... read more