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,…
Last stop of 2018: South Korea. I did not really care to visit South Korea. For some reason, the country has never caught my attention. But, I knew I had to go eventually. A few months ago, a fellow traveler reached out to me with an idea to travel somewhere together over New Year’s Eve…
“Women, some without headscarves, drove themselves to a Formula E car race where thousands of young Saudis and hundreds of international visitors partied into the night at concerts by Enrique Iglesias, The Black Eyed Peas and DJ David Guetta.” – Miami Herald If I had not attended the event myself, there is no way I…
I wanted to visit Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda in one trip. It just made sense. In early 2018, I arranged a customized program for the coming November with Obed. Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (also known as DR Congo or the DRC), but now residing across…
