Welcome! Thanks for stopping by! Here on Eric Explores the World, I share trip reports, travel tips, and behind-the-scenes content from my travels and adventures.

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Dobbins Lookout – Phoenix, Arizona.

Travel is something I have taken interest in ever since childhood. At 18 months old, I took my first trip – visiting Taiwan, my family’s country of origin. While growing up, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of getting to visit different places, whether that was touring NASA in Houston or seeing the beaches of Tampa. In high school, I began taking flight lessons, eventually becoming a certified pilot.


Checking out this Vietnam-era F-111 sitting here outside the airport in Brownwood, Texas.

While building flight time, I used the opportunity to take trips to various cities and small towns – a venture that has taken me all over Texas and surrounding states. It was also around this time I begun to expand my horizon and set a personal goal to see all fifty states before my 30th birthday. Exploring the world and crossing destinations off your bucket list, whether near or far, is something that is within anyone’s reach with some planning. Travel really can be as economical as it is fun!

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