20 Best Photos Of 2021. Here we are again. It is my annual wrap up for my twenty best photos. And like every other year it is not actually twenty photos, but that is a much snappier title and better for SEO. While not as challenging as 2020, 2021 was still severely constrained by Covid when [...]
South Sudan – 145th Country. To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries. South Sudan is my 145th country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! South Sudan is the world’s newest country in [...]
Saudi Arabia – 144th Country. To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries. Saudi Arabia is my 144th country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! With 35 million people, Saudi Arabia is the [...]
Chad – 143rd Country. To see where I have been so far, check out my map as I count down the final 93 countries on the road to all 193 UN countries. Chad is my 143rd country. Check out the best 193 travel books to read! Chad is a landlocked country, located at the crossroads of [...]
It's a small world. If you know me, you know I love small world stories. As we know, it’s a small world, after all. It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small, small world There is just one moon and one golden sun [...]
Mette Ehlers Mikkelsen Counting Countries has traveled to 172 countries Mette and I had been connected on Facebook via Every Passport Stamp, but we recently crossed paths in Jeddah for an evening of dinner and shisha with a group of extreme travelers. We were connected by former guest Henrik Jeppesen who was aware that both [...]
Faces Of Iraq, Breaking Stereotypes. Iraq has been in the news for all of the wrong reasons for as long as I can remember. There was the brutal war between Iran and Iraq which took the lives of over 1,000,000 souls. Iraq invaded and occupied its diminutive neighbor, Kuwait. Iraq and its leader, Saddam Hussein, were [...]
Unique Faces Of Gerewol Festival. The Wodaabe are a subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group. The Fulani which goes by a number of names is one of the largest ethnic groups found in West Africa and the Sahel. The Fulani number approximately 60 million. The Wodaabe on the other hand only number 100,000 across Chad, Niger, [...]
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