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Justin Dodge
Founder of Safari the Globe
Justin Dodge is an avid traveler and this interest sparked the founding of Safari
the Globe. Justin is from Wisconsin, in the
United States and as a child frequently traveled around the U.S.A., particularly
to Florida and Illinois,
where much of his family lived. His first trip outside the United States was in
1999, when he traveled to Canada with his family.
Despite his trip to Canada, Justin's addiction to
traveling didn't truly begin until 2003, his next trip abroad, when he went to
Kenya and Tanzania to scale
Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was the vast differences in culture, food, scenery,
and wildlife that hooked him on travel and truly began his adventures.
Since 2003, Justin has traveled extensively throughout the world, with each trip
taking on a different form of travel. He has lived, worked, and studied abroad;
he has also traveled abroad solely for business meetings, and on other occasions
only for pleasure. He has gone on organized day and week-long tours, backpacked
for weeks at a time without a shower, cruised the oceans in style, and gotten utterly
lost in the mountains after hitch hiking the lonely streets of the Caucus Mountains.
Much like the diversity of his style of travel, Justin's destinations have been
nearly as unique. He has been to 40 countries (plus some "countries" that
don't exist) on four different continents, including trips to the
Far East, Southern Asia,
Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan
Africa, nearly every corner of Europe, English-speaking
North America and Hispanic America.
In addition to traveling, Justin helps manage his brother's website, From Screen to Theme, which is about everything Disney®,
enjoys playing and watching sports, and is constantly finding a new and seemingly
ridiculous quest. These ventures have led him to become a Guinness World Records™
Record holder, a Zamboni® driver, and a street performer.
If you want to learn more about Justin, visit his personal website at www.justinrdodge.com. Or if you just want to learn about
his travels, Read Justin's Personal Travel Blog.