The Wandering Soldier

Travel Thoughts for the Outrageously Adventurous. It is always recommended to Travel Fearlessly.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Southern Illinois: The Tunnel Hill Trail

We recently discovered the Tunnel Hill Trail and needed to explore this old railroad bed trail. The Tunnel Hill Bike Trail is a 46-mile Bik...

Friday, August 22, 2025

Monument Valley

Monument Valley has always been on my mind since I was a kid. If you have watched an old western movie or two, it was part of the scenery....

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Weather Balloons and the Roswell UFO Crash Site

In 1947, an Air Force Weather Balloon crashed in the barren cattle country northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A lot of people, including Go...

Canyon De Chelly and the Navajo Nation

We spent a week exploring the Navajo Nation. We camped at Canyon De Chelly in the National Monument Campground. The National Monument Visi...

Friday, July 4, 2025

The Great Basin National Park's Lost Winchester 1873

One of the coolest things we saw on our 80-day trip to California and back. On this trip, we visited 32 National Parks and Monuments. The ...

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An Old Soldier

The Wandering Soldier: I'm a retired Army Soldier that has a motorcycle addiction, who loves to Travel. It is a good combination. For me travelling is life . Traveling in general, is all about the experience; which I have learned to collect. I collect them like some people collect things, the more that you can collect that are good or even bad unintentionally have the potential to make you a better person. Real travel educates; What I'm talking about is staying in real neighborhoods and eating at local restaurants that haven't been corrupted by chasing the tourist dollar. My greatest travel experiences have been meeting people who did not think of me as a tourist as if I was there to view them like they were in a zoo. On a recent business trip to Kuwait, I had a discussion with a Bangladeshi Taxi driver that not only gave me insight into his life in Kuwait, but also his life and family in Bangladesh where he had started a rice export business. To me, this is what travel is all about. It is about life and the different places that those lives are lived.

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