 In February 2017, he completed the Travelers' Century Club (TCC) list of 325 countries.During his travels Parrish has been detained by Jamaican authorities, cheated death on a Nepali road and was injured in a fall while rock climbing in Wisconsin.Yet he has said, “I’ve never regretted any of it because I haven’t been on a single trip where I didn’t learn something new.”

During his trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Parrish, who knows Hangul, and his fellow travelers experienced the guided sights of North Korea, including the war museum and monuments to Kim Il-sung, the founder of the North Korean republic.