The Wandering Soldier

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

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Saturday, December 6, 2025

My Year in Afganistan: Forward Operating Base Salerno

My year in Afghanistan was life-changing, even though I didn't know it at the time. In fact, I really hated being there. It's funn...

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Elk Mountain Hotel

After driving through Idaho and Utah, we found a Harvest Host RV location in the middle of Wyoming. This stop was a great, unexpected stop ...

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Butch Cassidy's Boyhood Home

One of my favorite things about traveling is discovering unexpected attractions. Those unknown things that jump out at you when you get to ...

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Utah, A Smorgasbord of National Parks

We made it to Utah. We entered Utah at the beginning of May and left 12 days later. Everything changed once we crossed the San Juan Rive...

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...

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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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