So after a 6 week hiatus from nearly a year of monthly travels, it’s time to hit the road again. With 85,000 miles I booked the Lufthansa LH 401 flights on business class from JFK to FRA to CAI all for $60 USD. The experience began with the quick obligatory...
Special thanks goes to our Young Pioneer Tours guide Pier-André Doyon for the blogpost title. 240km east of the coast of Somalia and 380km south of the Arabian Peninsula lies a 132 km x 49.7km island called Socotra: a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to...
This November, I am blessed to be joined by the following 19 other trailblazing monsooners in celebrating my 10 year anniversary since my fateful, spontaneous trip to Egypt that started it all. And the very reason why you’re reading this blogpost, let alone...
After 2 months deliberating over an incredibly competitive applicant pool on the eve of our upcoming 10 year anniversary trip to Egypt next month, I have the unique pleasure to finally announce our inaugural social media manager for The Monsoon Diaries: DIANA KLATT,...
This morning after breakfast we set out towards Turner Sund and Rømer Fjord on our last day of zodiac cruising. This was planned to be the wildest part of our trip knowing that sudden changes in weather patterns could sneak up on us. Nevertheless, we lucked...
After 2 straight days of some of the best weather East Greenland has ever seen, it would seem that all good things must come to an end. After breakfast we had intended to land on the tundra of Liverpool Land by Hurry Inlet, a peninsula of East Greenland. However,...
This morning we woke up to another gorgeous cloudless sunrise, this time in Jyttehavn: Every passing moment here illuminated another shade of brilliance. Somehow here the sun-kissed peaks of Jyttehavn recalled for me the Mac OS X factory-set desktop...
