Meet the Gulf of Guineans!
For the first time since May 2019 we were almost going to finally have a monsoon with all first time monsooners! But thanks to a late game time arrival by Priyanka (from our Syria trip!) and Karthik coming to visit his family in Lagos, both of them are going to...
La Gran Canaria In The Coalmine
The plan was to get up at 8:30am, pick up our rental car parked on the street to drive to the airport by 9:15am, and board our 10:45am flight from Tenerife North Airport to La Palmas, Gran Canaria.However, in true adventure monsoon fashion everything went wrong...
Tender-ife
The original plan was supposed to be Libya in November. But due to world events and the difficulty of obtaining visas in time, I didn't want to try to push my luck that I had enjoyed 16 times over with Syria the month prior. So I moved Libya in April and...
Meet the Canaries!
Let's get ready for our next monsoon! Switching Libya to April 2024, we decided on a last minute run for the Canary Islands this weekend and how wonderful I have 5 people sign up all at the last minute including: Kimmy “Kameel” Wu: 4 time monsooner to Saint Lucia,...
The Nigerian Tourist Visa for Americans/USA Passports
It has never been a secret that a visa to visit Nigeria as a tourist has been one of the most difficult if not impossible to obtain: Traditionally travel companies would instead exploit a loophole and issue a business visas on arrival for exorbitant...
You’re Going To Miss … Syria
Once again the premise is simple: Write about a trip without stopping.PRESS play and read the post with the music . . . < You're going to miss seeing familiar names on a roster and the 17 other monsooners willing to join you to a...
Let’s Go-lan, Far, and To New Heights Together
After saying our goodbyes yesterday to Francois and this morning to Rajani and Chris this morning, all of whom had to leave much earlier for their scheduled flights, we took a detour drive west to the Golan Heights before we'd make our own flights back home...
Who’s the Bosra Now?
After recovering from an extremely eventful night in Damascus, we woke up at 10am this morning to drive south 2 hours to Bosra. Along the way we got to check out a very deserted rest stop where a man named Qasim Al-Deri asked if we knew another tour...