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...
As promised, posting the group photos of our talk on international traveling (“Chasing Wanderlust 101!”) at the Midwest Asian American Student Union (MAASU) Spring Conference today. Hello from the University of Wisconsin – Madison! Thanks for...
How do I pack for 4 days of this…. With this? I start with my clothes — 3 short sleeved synthetic (quick drying) shirts, 2 long sleeved synthetic shirts, 3 cotton shirts, 2 cargo pants, 5 underwears, 5 smart wool socks, 2 heavy smart wool socks, 2 dress...
A lot more crazy people are going this time: Krystle heads to Kiev first today, alone. The next day it’s a group of 9 that’ll meet her in Kiev: Mandy, Maria, Olgi, Jennifer, Simon, Andrew, Ruchika, Alana, and Ying. Then they take an overnight bus to...
I am fully preparing to jump into a monsoon in two weeks’ time. That is to say that I will be traveling with sixteen fellow backpackers and one Calvin Sun, whose rousing story and headstrong travel philosophy – “monsooning” – were recently featured in USA Today. The...
This is the true story… of 16 strangers…picked to live on a backpack…travel together and have their lives blogged…To find out what happens… when people stop being polite… and start getting monsoonal……The Monsoon...
“We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.” – Ugo Betti. History comes alive this winter. How many of us dare to consider ourselves as part of some greater context,...
