My name is Brandon and welcome to my blog, Zimmin Around the World. I am a Geography major with a passion for exploring the world. My love of travel started early and comes from a deep curiosity about well, everything.
I love anything with a breathtaking view, wandering around cities, experiencing unique foods, or discovering hidden gems. I’m always looking for an adventure and searching for new experiences. Through Zimmin Around the World, I share my journeys, travel tips, and stories to help you better explore the world with the same sense of curiosity and wonder.
Zimmin Around the World has always floated around my mind. After my trips, I always used to do a huge photo dump on my Facebook account. Friends and family always loved viewing my photos but there was no backstory to them. I had to explain where we went and what the photos were of. I wanted to create a blog so I could share both my photos and experiences with family and friends. I wanted to share what I learned on my travels with the rest of the world through photos, experiences, and what I learned while on my adventures. I felt like presenting my travels as a blog would be a lot more interesting then just a huge collection of photos with little to no information.
We’ve found, we learn so much about a place, its culture, and history by being present and immersing ourselves in the destinations we travel to. Our interests are continuously changing. We try and experience as much as possible and eat/drink our way through countries.
Being geography majors, we’ve found traveling to be an educational experience. There is only so much you can learn about a place through research. By exploring a destination, booking tours, talking to locals and experts, and being curious you really start to see how misinformed many of us are about the world and how little we really know about our planet to include the environment, its history and its people.
Our main goal for starting this blog is not only to showcase photography and show off all the places we’ve been to. But I really want to share our experiences and what we’ve learned while traveling. Did you know that the Mayans were not really called Mayans? Or calling a civilization Inca is not entirely correct? Yeah, we didn’t know this either! We will provide our very own recommendations on food and drinks, destinations, sites to see, how to get there, and fill you in with what we’ve learned.