Napa, California resident Monty Anderson is Looking for His Next Expedition or Adventure Experience

"I want to see every part of the world." That's the objective of Anderson, just off a trip from North Korea, yearning to see more of what the world has to offer.

Napa, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2005

"I want to see every part of the world." That's the objective of Anderson, just off a trip from North Korea, yearning to see more of what the world has to offer.

About his trip to North Korea, Andersons says, "The North Korean government was allowing a few American, journalists, diplomats and a very limited amount of US Tourists to go to Pyongyang. I was very pleased to find my visa acceptance and we were given VIP seats to see the Arirang Festival (Mass Games). I flew out on October 7."

Anderson jumped at the chance to travel though five weeks earlier, he had open heart surgery. But that's what one can expect from an obsessed traveler. "North Korea is one the most politically isolated and feared countries of the world and the most anti-American country on the planet, so I knew I had to make the attempt to get in."

The US government and the North Korean government could not be more different, Anderson adds. "This is a country were Americans are called Imperialists. We had limited access to what we could photograph. Government security personal closely monitored our conversations as we were esorted by a driver and tour guide at all times. On the surface the country looked clean, well manicured and had a sense of normality. All of the men in the city were dressed in dark grey suits with a small pin on the lapel with the great leader's picture. Most of the women were dressed in colorful long formal looking dresses. But you didn't have to look very deep to see the people were discouraged from speaking to us as well as to each other. In fact, no one ever spoke of Kim Jung Il without first saying 'your great leaders.'"

Anderson's tour was agressive but guarded, "We could only visit places that were approved by them. We visited schools, libraries, monuments and the anti-American war museum, which had a few destroyed American military tanks and planes from the Korean War and lots of American propaganda. The military officer that gave us the tour continually asked us to tell the American government to lift any sanctions against them. It has put a large economic impact on their life. Nine out of every 10 people live in poverty."

Residents only see on TV what the state-run media wants them to see, he said. "Their government gives them the news daily. They appear to have no real world scale news. But they knew everything about our American military abusing Iraqi soldiers. One of the strangest feelings was visiting the USS Pueblo where I myself worked in the radio shack in the US Navy. It was the only time I had trouble composing myself, listening to their propaganda."

North Korea was not his only trip outside of the US. Anderson describes himself as an adventure world traveler and lover of expeditions who wants to see every part of the world." In 2002 he visited all seven continents. "Yet there are so many other places I want to go. I love other cultures and writing about my trips."

Anderson admits he was bitten by the travel bug. "I really enjoy expeditions, unusual modes of transportation, unusual destinations and the best hotels of the world. So far I've been to approximately 125 countries."

These include places like the North Pole, dog sledding in Greenland, caving in Laos, sailing in Burma, hiking the Andes, exploring an ice cave in Iceland, riding a camel safari in Africa, aboard Russian military boats in the Black Sea and swimming in the Dead Sea, the Amazon River and Yangtze River. He has also been on a nuclear ice breaker, a blimp, a bi-plane, submarine, on long boats in Cambodia and motorcycles in Gobi desert.

Anderson chuckles, "A true adventure traveler might call me a plastic explorer because I reach my destinations by credit card but I'll get there any way I can."

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