After 9 years of elementary school, 4 years of high school, 4 years of college, 2 years off, 4 years of med school, and 4 years of residency all while working on other jobs in the meantime, I’m finally about to graduate. No more school.Anyone remember Dr....
After overnight camping at Wahiba Sands and leaving at 8am, we drove north up to Nizwa, arriving at around 11am. The main sight and reason to come to Nizwa is for its fort, built in the 1650s by the second Ya’rub and was the administrative seat for the presiding...
Preface — To give you an idea what my life has been like this past month: Exactly a month ago, I was the Caribbean for a 3 day weekend in Turks & Caicos Then I returned to NYC for 4 straight night shifts in the ER (getting sick with a 103ºF fever in the...
I fondly remember 5 years ago when I came to Haiti with 4 other monsooners as we backpacked up from the capital city of Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haitien and gazed out from one of the most beautiful fortresses of colonial America. I had a great crew to travel with...
Our drive this morning into Mosul, Iraq: DISCLAIMER: Mosul is NOT a destination recommended by us at The Monsoon Diaries or any of our travel partners at Young Pioneer Tours or Kurdistan Iraq Tours. It is NOT part of any official travel itinerary for these...
After an hour in Lalish, we drove towards the ancient Assyrian town of Alqosh, located 50km (31 miles) north of Mosul. Here Alqosh is primarily inhabited by ethnic Assyrians of the Chaldean Catholic Church and remains one of the few places on this planet where...
Trying to escape the thunderstorms that were about to overtake the site of the Battle of Gaugamela, we drove north towards Lalish. After a few checkpoints we reached a quiet area up in the mountains to reach the Yazidi village. The Yazidis are a group of...
