Oceania

Faces Of Papua New Guinea

By |2024-09-14T07:52:56-05:00August 31st, 2024|Categories: Oceania, Photos|

Faces of Papua New Guinea.  (There are affiliates in this post.) I do not like throwing around superlatives, but I feel confident to share ... that this was my best tribal photographic experience.  I slept next to the Mundari tribe in South Sudan and camped in Chad at the Gerewol Festival, but nothing can beat the [...]

Visiting Papua New Guinea

By |2024-09-14T07:50:14-05:00August 31st, 2024|Categories: Oceania, Unique Experiences|

Visiting Papua New Guinea with affiliates in this post. INTRO While not my raison d’etre for travel, I have interacted with and met some fascinating tribal groups.  Whether that is dancing into the night with the Wodabe people at the Gerewol festival in Chad, breathing in cow shit with the Mundari in South Sudan, or living [...]

A Year In Review 2018

By |2020-01-29T09:59:01-06:00December 17th, 2018|Categories: Africa, Asia, Oceania, Unique Experiences|

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 days due to a Boston snow storm). Fiji was my 116th country. And in November, I visited my [...]

Vanuatu’s Heart: Full Of Love Or Hate?

By |2019-07-06T16:43:12-05:00April 20th, 2018|Categories: Oceania, Unique Experiences|

Vanuatu’s Heart: Full Of Love Or Hate?  In my quest to travel to every country in the world, I visited the remote Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.  While on the island I had a health incident which I detail in this port.  This post of my experience began to make the rounds on social media and [...]

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 [...]

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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