After a lovely yesterday with Nadi in her motherland of Malawi, today we woke up at an ungodly hour of 5:00am to catch a 5:30am cab to the airport, arriving at 6:00am. After an uneventful check-in process at Lilongwe’s no-frills airport, we boarded an 8:00am Malawi...
Our 2-hour, 7:30pm flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ended up getting delayed (not surprising given that ADD airport has its share of logistical difficulties), so we didn’t arrive into Nairobi until 11pm at night. Unlike Ethiopia’s confusing and...
The Monsoon Diaries’ first ever trip to sub-saharan Africa just began today with a 12 hour layover in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. To begin the trip, I got to use 80,000 United Miles to score 2 free business class flights from New York to...
Gratuitous. …might not stay in Vegas. Having achieved another rare golden weekend off from work (3 days exactly!), I headed out from another overnight shift in the ER to make a Friday morning 11:10am direct 5 hour Delta Airline flight from NYC to Las...
Ambrose Chu The following is a guest post by twice monsooner Ambrose Chu, who graciously asked if he could contribute to the Monsoon Diaries adventures. Ambrose first discovered us when googling how to obtain a tourist visa for Iran. He reached out and met me in NYC...
What to do when you get 4.5 days off from work? You can either do your laundry — or, watch a sunset in Santorini. Santorini just got served Having gotten 4 and a half days scheduled off of work after a string of overnight shifts, I casually looked online...
Lenin just got served Although the trip officially ended yesterday, 5 of us continued onwards for the optional extension into forbidden Belarus (or aka “Europe’s last dictatorship”…as per Western journalists) …because why not? The 5 of...
