Hostile Border Crossings: Smugglers Paradise Paraguay / Brazil

This is the third in a series (see posts East Berlin and Bulgaria). In 1993, my pregnant wife and I … Continue reading Hostile Border Crossings: Smugglers Paradise Paraguay / Brazil

Video Blog: How Far is Too Far to Travel

If your read last week’s blog post, this is the accompanying video with more info on challenging yourself to travel … Continue reading Video Blog: How Far is Too Far to Travel

Masirah Isand, Oman, not so much a tourist destination as a landing strip on a desert island in the Arabian … Continue reading Isolated and off-the- beaten path: Masirah Island, Oman

Sláinte and Erin go Bragh … often heard in any Irish pub and what better way for a St. Patrick’s … Continue reading Sláinte … My Favorite Irish Pub (on my side of the Atlantic)

This is the first of two posts on off grid sat comms. This one looks at the Garmin Inreach and … Continue reading Off Grid Communications: Garmin Inreach Explorer+

Strictly speaking it’s a top secret military base and an alleged black-ops CIA location in the middle of the Indian … Continue reading Isolated and Extremely Off-the-beaten path: Diego Garcia, BIOT

This isolated and off-the-beaten path wild horse sanctuary is located in the southwestern part of South Dakota’s Black Hills country. … Continue reading Off-the-beaten Path: Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, SD

Leaving Rapid City (see post) for a fall fishing trip in Wyoming, I purposely drove through this isolated northwestern corner … Continue reading Isolated and Off-the-beaten Path: Oglala National Grasslands, NE

To celebrate President’s Day weekend I decided to do a post about Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid City is known … Continue reading Rapid City, SD — A City of Presidents

The Romans believed it to be an end of the known world. The name Finisterre in latin means “Land’s End.” … Continue reading Isolated and Off-the-beaten Path: Finisterre, Spain