Joel Oleson 2025 Goals and plans for the year I have ADD/ADHD, I shouldn’t be much of a goal maker, but it’s time to be reflective and look at 2025 and what I want to focus on going into 2026. March 2024 – Finished my life goal of visiting every country in the world while…
How many kinds of penguins are there and where can you see them? There are 18 different species of penguins. They can be found in various locations, including Antarctica, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and the Galapagos Islands. They are: 1 Emperor Penguin 2 King Penguin 3 Adélie Penguin 4 Chinstrap Penguin 5…
If you love the exotic, but cute animals you probably have dreamed of visiting the baobab trees in Madagascar. The popular Disney cartoon only popularized the idea even more, but believe it or not the island of Madagascar despite being a spectacular adventure to explore is not frequented by travelers. While I was at the…
My friend’s grandfather was a photo journalist with National Geographic and the footage he had of Papua New Guinea tribes was incredible. I knew when I planned my trip there I wanted not just to visit the cities, but to get in deep with a tribe and my friend’s Felix and Saki who I met…
Today we are in lockdown. Air traffic is way down over 70% of planes are downed. Travel has never been at more of a standstill in the past 100 years. Why would I want to talk about travel? If you’re like me, you never stop thinking about travel. In this new series as I’m sitting…
The Beautiful National Park that inspired the movie Avatar… the spectacular Stone Forest in China
The Giant Leshan Buddha outside of Chengdu China is the largest premodern statue in the world and was so for thousands of years… even taller than the sphinx
Warriors and Horses of Xi’an China – Discovery of the Century
Tianmen Mountain is the Gateway to Heaven or Portal to Heaven. There are 99 turns and 999 steps that lead to the Portal.
At the beginning of 2018, I started working at Blizzard Entertainment and visited a couple of offices in Europe as well and now two of my oldest sons started college. Great accomplishments for which I’m very pleased. As a result of supporting 2 in college, I’ve had to get good at cashing in airline miles. …
