The Yacht Week Greece Day 1 – The Hostess with the Alimos-tess
2 days in Rhodes and then 2 days in Meteora, I think it's time to say that we're ready for the main reason why 40 of us are here. A trip 22 months in the making: The Yacht Week Greece. Since Sidian had to leave early to catch an afternoon flight out to a...
Meteora Sightings
After 2 days in Rhodes, Amelia, Yuhan, and I enjoyed a free morning before taking a €30 cab to RHO airport for our 4pm afternoon flight back to Athens. I even snuck in a second gym session at Oxygen gym outside of Old Rhodes! Once arriving back at ATH and...
All Rhodes Lead To…
We've been preparing for awhile. Hot off the heels of my last trip from Mogadishu, I decided to not travel in June so that I could adequately do right by this major upcoming and nearly one month long trip to Greece in July. Skipping a month to monsoon is a big...
Mogadishu, Somalia: Witness to Reconstruction & Renaissance
The Battle of Mogadishu took place nearly more than 30 years ago in 1993 and its subsequent depiction in the film Black Hawk Down has remained a fixture of my childhood since high school. I still remember the night when we went to watch the film with my fellow...
Asmara Times You Fail, Eritrea Harder
After 5 days in Somaliland, we attempted to fly out from Hargeisa on a scheduled 12:00pm Ethiopian Airlines flight to Addis Ababa so we could make our connecting Ethiopian Airlines flight at 5:10pm in Asmara. However, when I looked down at my watch to see...
The Sweet Is Never As Sweet Without The Massawa
We're skipping ahead from Somaliland to Massawa today, but if you want to read about how we got into Asmara yesterday from Somaliland: read here.After arriving a day later than planned in Asmara from Somaliland and Addis Ababa we quickly had lunch in...
“Laas Geel!” “To Where?” Berbera!
After breakfast this morning, we visited Hargeisa's livestock market where locals allowed us to purchase our very own camel or goat! Here also happens to be the only place in the world where you can find the original rare black-headed sheep aka...
“Har”geisa You Ready For Somaliland Independence Day?
Waking up early after 3 days in Djibouti, we scrambled at 5am to board our Air Djibouti flight DJB204 at 7:00am. You'll have to buy this ticket separately on Air Djibouti's website approximately 2 months at the earliest before your travel date. ...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
