I first solo traveled Europe at 14 with money I earned mowing neighborhood lawns. I was an exchange student to New Zealand in high school, traveling Australia and Oceania extensively afterward. I traveled much of Asia before I finished college, and I had traveled national parks and other remote places as much as possible in between. I started Weekend Explorer more than 20 years ago to share my travel knowledge to help my friends (some I’ve yet to meet) and family to enjoy similar extraordinary experiences.