My journey home from Salalah included an 8-hour layover in Oman’s capital city, Muscat [see post: In and Around Salalah]. I arrived at Muscat International Airport in the early afternoon on Sunday, January 6, 2019, and quickly headed out to explore. Getting around Muscat is expensive. Rideshare services, like Uber, are not available. A metered…
Destination: Yemen. I want to explore the world. All of it. Unfortunately, our world is not all rainbows and butterflies. Countries like Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen, to list a few, have been traumatized by war and instability. Due to the Yemeni Civil War, most countries have closed their embassies—making it difficult for globetrotters chasing 193…
I used to think I was cool. Back then, to my knowledge, only a handful of people had visited every country in the world. Aside from the few making the news, I thought what they had done, and what I was attempting to do, was something almost unheard-of. By visiting every country in the world,…
