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Vanuatu – 117th Country

By |2019-05-28T05:46:14-05:00January 16th, 2018|Categories: Counting Countries 193 Countdown, Oceania|

Vanuatu – 117th 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.  Vanuatu is my 117th country.     Check out the best 193 travel books to read!   Vanuatu a small Pacific nation gained its [...]

Have I Really Been To Vanuatu?

By |2021-04-12T15:02:15-05:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: Oceania, Unique Experiences|

Have I Really Been To Vanuatu?  I am part of a community who is attempting to travel to every country in the world.  According to the United Nations there are 193 countries.  So far I have been to 117 countries which sounds impressive, until you realize I still have to travel to 76 countries.  It is [...]

Fiji – 116th Country

By |2020-01-07T06:07:00-06:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: Counting Countries 193 Countdown, Oceania|

Fiji – 116th 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.  Fiji is my 116th country.     Check out the best 193 travel books to read!   A five night trip to Fiji was [...]

Jonny Blair – 113 countries … a Northern Irishman in Poland

By |2019-05-28T07:15:17-05:00January 4th, 2018|Categories: Podcast|Tags: , , , , , |

[Download .mp3] Jonny has been on the road for nearly a decade in a half and has covered a lot of ground.  Jonny was inspired to travel by both ice cream and football.  He sold ice cream for four summers in his twenties and his coworkers hailed from 20 different countries, opening his eyes to the [...]

Quarantine On The Friendship Highway, Part IV

By |2020-03-31T13:01:06-05:00January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Asia, Unique Experiences|Tags: , , , , , |

Quarantine On The Friendship Highway, Part IV.   Real fear and paranoia set in.  It was our fourth day and for all intensive purposes we were in an information black out.  The day began like Groundhog Day, the same as the day before.  The Yetis silently crept into our room with thermometers clutched in their white latex [...]

A Year In Review: 2017

By |2019-07-06T13:27:17-05:00December 26th, 2017|Categories: Counting Countries 193 Countdown|Tags: |

A Year In Review: 2017.  It was another crazy year of travel in 2017.  I continued exploring new countries, visiting my 115th country in September when I touched down in Palau in September.  There are 193 countries recognized by the UN, so that means I still have 78 more to travel.  Besides visiting Palau, I traveled [...]

Tony Giles – 110 countries … and blind and mostly deaf

By |2019-05-28T07:20:31-05:00December 21st, 2017|Categories: Podcast|

[Download .mp3] Tony has a sense of adventure not rivaled by many. Tony heard tales of travel from his Dad, a merchant marine.  He also had two opportunities to study in the USA as a student.  Yet, the gift of a kidney which prevented a life of dialysis supercharged his travel life, reminding him that his [...]

Palau – 115th Country

By |2019-07-06T13:30:52-05:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Counting Countries 193 Countdown, Oceania|Tags: , |

Palau – 115th 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.  Palau is my 115th country.     Check out the best 193 travel books to read!  I took a brief late night flight on [...]

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