Earlier this month, I went on a short-notice impromptu trip to Turkey. To be honest, Turkey really wasn’t ranked highly on my travel bucket list and I hadn’t considered ever traveling there. At the end of August, my friend Nathalie and I had an amazing time attending the Burning Man festival. We had so […]
I recently returned from a 10-day trip to Rwanda and Uganda to track mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Solo travelers can’t do this trip on their own, they must sign up for a government park ranger-led program and pay for a very expensive permit. The tours in both countries are done in groups of […]
I recently returned from a three-week trip to Mexico. I wasn’t teaching and didn’t have any holiday plans, so I decided to do some relaxing down in one of my favorite places in the world, Playa del Carmen. I spent my 50th birthday, Christmas, and New Years down there. If you want to experience […]
I just returned from a 17-day trip to Medellin Colombia. I made the trip for two primary reasons. The first is that it is as hot as Hades in my new Texas home. It’s been 100+ degrees here every day for the last couple months. I knew it was going to be hot when I […]
I apologize. This article is a bit delayed. With all the chaotic active killer events occurring recently, I decided to prioritize my content with that subject matter. My travel experience articles had to be postponed. I have some travel plans for this coming summer. I’m worried that the long-Covid I’m still suffering might negatively […]
After spending a couple days in Guayaquil, I was off to a little hippie surf town called Montañita where I was going to spend the majority of my vacation. I had originally planned on going by bus. Long haul Latin American buses are usually fairly comfortable and the bus fares are really cheap. The […]
I recently returned from a 16-day trip to Ecuador. As most of you reading this will probably never make it to this gorgeous country, I thought I’d write about some of my travel adventures there. Why Ecuador? I had originally planned a trip to Rwanda and Uganda to see the mountain gorillas in […]
A week ago I arrived home from an eight-day trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As I’ve written extensively about Brazil in past articles, I’m not going to cover the normal tourist stuff. Instead, I’m going to discuss travel during a worldwide pandemic and the different perspectives other populations have regarding Covid-19. I love […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I recently returned from an epic two-week trip to South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. I had previously been to Africa twice. I went to Egypt in 2005. I returned in 2008 to climb Kilimanjaro, visiting both Kenya and Tanzania. I got really sick climbing Kili (high altitude cerebral edema) […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I got back home last week after a whirlwind seven-day tour of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. That’s not on most people’s travel bucket list. Why go to Jordan? When Lauren and I met, we both had independent travel goals. My goal was to visit 50 countries before […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you noticed some repeat (albeit edited and updated) content from me earlier in the week, it was because I was out of the country having a bit of fun in Costa Rica. I had been to Costa Rica twice before. I did a family tour of the country […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I returned last week from an epic two-week trip to Antarctica (via Chile). Why Antarctica? Because it was on our continent bucket list. Both Lauren and I have been to all of the other continents in the world. Antarctica was the last one. So we went. The trip started with […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I just got home from an amazing 10-day trip to Peru. Since a lot of you like reading about my travel adventures, I’ll talk a little about my trip and some of the security issues I encountered in South America. This was my third trip to Peru. I hiked […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz It was Lauren’s birthday last week, so I took her to Iceland for a long weekend to celebrate. It was a country that both of us were interested in visiting and one that neither of us had already traveled to. She found a whirlwind four-day tour of the country and […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I spent last week vacationing in El Salvador. Most of you are questioning my sanity right now. Why go to El Salvador? The country has the highest murder rate in the world when comparing countries not involved in a civil wars. It doesn’t get a lot of tourism. I […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Lauren and I spent last week on a short vacation. Our primary destination was Cuba, where we spent four days in Havana. As there are no direct flights for tourists from the USA, we had to catch a flight from Cancun, Mexico. Since we both love the beach there, we […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you noticed some of the recycled content last week, it was because I was traveling again. We wanted to get away from the cold weather, so we took a short trip down to South America. Brazil is one of my favorite countries and I absolutely love Rio de Janeiro. […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you noticed the lighter posting schedule during the past couple weeks, it’s because I’ve been traveling. I went down to Peru for two weeks. I had visited Peru about 10 years ago and have already done all of the normal tourist activities like hiking the Inca trail, visiting […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz A quick little travel narrative for you today… Lauren and I had a few days of vacation planned last week. Our goal was to get to Cuba, but it’s difficult to arrange a flight. There aren’t any direct flights out of America for tourists, so we would have to fly […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you all noticed some repeat articles in the last couple weeks, it’s because I’ve been traveling out of the country. I spent the last week in the Caribbean, visiting French Sint Martin, Dutch St. Maarten, and the Island of Saba. Saba was the place I was most excited about…primarily […]
