
Monsooners Around The World
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
French Polynesia (April 23-30, 2022)
Mihaela “Aqua Vitae” K, Donna “Kid’s Temptation” Vo, Gina “Gin & Tonic” Fortunato, Jenny “Don Julio 1942” Fu, Lyla “Clase Azul” Kamigaki, Bruce “Absinthe” Zhang, Ginna “Whiskey Flip” Dammann, Daniel “Piña Colada (Virgin)” Jeng, Jay “Vermouth” Shih, Amelia “Chardonnay” Schillingford, Craig “Greyhound” Hays, Megan “Pickleback Shot” Elizabeth, Borna “Captain Morgan’s Rum” Baricevic
Iraq, Jordan, & Egypt (March 11-18, 2022)
Mihaela “Wujūd” K., Anthony “Alyaqaza” Lui, Priscilla “Qadar” Yoon, Kimmy “Kameel” Wu, Ihita “Arabesque” Kabir, Chyne “Shawq” Tan, Anjali “Desert Fox” Patel, Marina “Duolingo” Girgis, Andaleeb “Zaha Hadid” Raja, Amanda “Checkpoints” Cheng, Sarah “The Kite Runner” Lee, Lai Yuen “Ribatat jash” Looi, Alicia “Wulidat” Shi
Martinique, Saint Lucia, & Guadeloupe (Jan 2-10, 2022)
Sabrina “We’re Not Really Strangers” Poon, Kimmy “Rosemary Marinade” Wu, Tammy “Savage Garden” Ying, Jeanette “Parachutes” Wong, Koichi “Missed Connections” Sakamaki, Paul “The Light Between Oceans” Woo
Saudi Arabia (Oct 9-13, 2021)
Mihaela “Compass” K., Salwa “Queen Boss”, Mohammed “Jokes at The Edge of the World”, Abdulaziz “5 Stars”, Jazzie “Maktoub”, Maram “O Canada”
Balearic Islands (Aug 6-11, 2021)
USA (Aug 8 - 28, 2020)
Greenland (Sept 16-25, 2019)
Unknown UAE, Musandam Oman, Afghanistan, Rwanda, & Uganda (June 20 - July 5, 2019)
Antigua & Barbuda (May 15-17, 2019)
North Pakistan (Mar. 12-19, 2019)
The Least Visited (Dec. 27, 2018 - Jan 16, 2019)
Japan (Sep 1 - 18, 2018)
Donna “Motoko Kusanagi” Vo, Angela “Mikasa Ackerman” Park, Kelly “Tokyo Me Away From New York” Joo, Shayra “Misato Katsuragi”, Trish “Togo Mimori” Ho, Billy “Lone Star” T, “Cool Hand” Luke Palmgren, Camilla “Charlotte” Pires, Amy “Asuka Langley” Bloch, Natasha “Mari Makinami” Poole
The Persian Gulf (May 30 - Jun. 5, 2018)
Ann “Narcoleptik!” Wen, Mihaela “ROFLOLMAO”, Donavan “Kareem The Generous” Trieu
Australia & New Zealand (Dec. 30, 2017 - Jan. 16, 2018)
Donna “FOMO Queen” Vo, Taylan “Imperator Furiosa” Stulting, Alexandra “Venus Flytrap” De Rosa, Mary “Mad Max” Lin, Isaac “Nux” Johnson, Ann “Joey” Wen, Sampson “Alpaca” Lau, David “Good Guy Meme” Anton, Sarah “Ginger Soul” Parise, Laura “Muy Thai” Bodden, Bryce “Cowboy” Maynard, Rachel “Kiwibird” Xu
Slovenia (Oct 20-22, 2017)
Mihaela “ROFLOLMAO”, Nathaniel “Phoenix”, Ashley “Party Crasher” Jia
The Balkans (Aug 11-30, 2017)
Ted “Bronn” Chen, Alfred “Beric Dondarrion” Yeung, Lei “The Three-Eyed Raven” Zhao, Maria “Ygritte” Landi, Taylan “Brienne Of Tarth” Stulting, Anthony “Tyrion Lannister” Lui, Belinda “Missandei” Li, Beverly “Cersei Lannister” Tchang, Rucha “Sansa Stark” Deshpande, Sidian “Oberyn Martell” Lan, Andy “Jaqen H’ghar” Chen, Sarah “Olenna Tyrell” Chen, Ujas “Gendry” Shah, Mihaela “Margaery Tyrell”, Calvin “Jeor Mormont” Hom
Scotland (Mar. 24 - 26, 2017)
Taylan “Plagues of Egypt” Stulting, Mihaela “ROFLOLMAO”, Ambrose “A Saturday Morning View In March” Chu
Bulgaria (Nov. 12-13, 2016)
Sarah “Token” Parise, Brenda “Heights” Duong, Amanda “Red Bull” Cheng, Kimberly “Russian Standard” Duong, Minna “Nikon Insurance Policy” Choi, Permveer “Elevator Doors” Longia, Mrinal “Free Walking Tour” Mohanka
Spain & Andorra (Sep. 10-12, 2016)
Venkat “The Biggest Man In Andorra” Kausik, Christina “Parachutes” Elise, David “Senator-Elect” Ali
Ireland (Mar. 5, 2016)
Simon “The Gamechanger” Lu, Andrew “Hot Wheels” Chang, Judy “Aurora” Luong, Christine “Imperator Furiosa” Ortiz, Brenda “The Virgin” Duong, Eric “The Park Ranger” Hirani

Extreme Southeast Asia '15, Led by Dave Zhou: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam (Dec. 13-18, 2015)
Dave “El Capitan” Zhou, Helen “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar” Zou, Nisa “The Good Daughter”, Sidian “Kiss Me, I’m Greek”, Ambrose “Knick” Chu
The Baltic Crescent: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus (Aug. 8-24, 2015)
Jennifer “Mom” Li, Dave “Responsible Uncle” Zhou, Jamie “Jamilah” Jimenez, Emily “Meathead” Chen, Jennifer “YAY” Yeh, William “Whale Meat” Lau, Ambrose “Celtic” Chu, Nadi “Better Late Than Never” Kaonga, Eric “Flow” Huynh, Teresa “T” Thong, Vivian “V” Cheng, Kelly “Skyscraper” Joo, Shannon “Six-Shootin’ American Idol” Murphy, Katy “Texan Belle” Budge, Michelle “Kindergarden Cop” Duncan, Alex “Athos” Wang, Jack “Porthos” He, Will “Aramis” Chen, Kel “D’artagnan” Sage, Alice “Club Alice” Tsui, Jeffrey “The Wise Man” O’Neill, Joyce “Telepath” Zhang, Joshua “Blynines” Zhang, Christina “Tamer Of The Whale Meat” Ren, Tara Densmore, Tamara Densmore
The Great USA Road Trip: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Wisconsin (Mar. 29 - Apr. 10, 2015)
Jennifer “Map&Move” Li, Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson, Brandon “The Terminator” Garcia, Alice “The Virtuoso” Tsui, Kel “The Sage” Sage, Duncan “Triple D”, Jorge Orpinel, Vishnu Vinekar, William “The Pharmacist” Lau, Clay Gilliland, George Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean: Mexico, Cuba, The Bahamas, Jamaica (Apr. 23- May 5, 2014)
Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson, Jan Elma “Green Lights” Ferrer, Jan Christian “The Warrior” Ferrer, Sonya “Splinters” Chandra, Anderson “All-Star” Lee, Sam “The Honeybadger” Wong, Jason “The Rock” Ea, Laima “Fifth Amendment” Tazmin, Samantha Kay “Alice” Miller, Cathy “CIA” Cao, Christine “Surgeon” Park, Vivian “DJ” Trinh, Andy “The Dentist” Tran, David “Tarzan” Zhou, Justin “Fedora” Huang, Gabino “The Ambassador” Chu, Leslie “Sea Urchin” Auquilla-Cabrera, Joy “Make it So” Achounjei, Steve “Iron Man” Su, Siddhi “Princess Badass” Mittal, Alfred “Umbrellas” Yeung, Edmund “The Translator” Fong, Nicholas “The Wise Man” Chong, Adam “The Vet” Murphy
From Antarctica to Pakistan (Dec. 9, 2013 - Jan. 6, 2014)
Anderson “All-Star” Lee, Tabitha “The Alchemist” Shook, Vineet “I Didn’t Do It” Devaiah, PJ “The Champ” Danarh, Arti “Child of the World” B, Dennis “Vormund”, Joreen “Unfiltered” Tay, Victor “Designated Driver” Ng, Simon “The Historian” Lu, Grace “The Scholar” An, Lui “Guardian of the Dungeon”, Morello, Alex “Enabled by the Guardian of the Dungeon” Hardy, Esther “Perpetual Motion” Wisse, Patrick “The Grand Cannon” Le Quere, Benjamin “The Virtuoso”, Scott “Streaking Redefined” Frazier, Sandra “Queen of the Amazon” Friedel, Serena “Queen of the Ice” Yuan, Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson: Antarctica, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile (Dec. 9-25, 2013)
Mariam “O Darling, My Darling” Dar: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain (Dec. 27, 2013 – Jan. 6, 2014)
Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama (Jun. 22-30, 2013)
Angela “Ah-Choo-eey!” Chen, Jun “Be Water My Friend” Wakabayashi, George “Bannne” Mu, Matt Chen, Kym “Stars & Sunrises” Pham, Erick “Ooh-rah!” Capulong, Bill “Smoothie King/Slim Shady” Zou
Poland, Ukraine, Germany (Dec. 26-31, 2012)
Mandy Cheuk, Cynthia “The Veteran” Koo, Kai Tan, Anonymous “The Shire” H., Ying Zhu, Andrew “Hot Wheels” Chang, Simon Lu, Olgi Qendro, Ry “Shredder” Willie, Jan Elma “Green Lights” Ferrer, Jennifer “Crime Scene” Le, Ruchika “Sangria” Sangani, Alana “Secret German” Tung, Krystle “Bahston” Jiang, Maria “DREAMer” Villa, Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson
Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Portugal (Dec. 22, 2011 – Jan. 2, 2012)
June “Mamabear” Kao, Jane “In the Zone” Yee, Go Yang “Artistry in Motion” Park, Calvin “Baby Calvin” Lin, Melissa “Dora the Explorer” Le, Seulbee “The Badass” Lee, Yiru “The Other Badass” Li
Mali (Jan 29-Feb 2, 2022)
Rashidah “Out of Africa” Namutebi, Johnny “Ragdoll” Donavan
El Salvador (Nov 18-22, 2021)
Brandon “Dakota Sur” Bowar, Chyne “West Side Story” Tan, Nina “Prom Night” Zhou, Kimmy “Peer Pressure” Wu, Tony “Hambre” Fung, Rajani “Wine O’ Clock” Mohan
The Tyrrhenian Sea (Sep 1-16, 2021)
Mihaela “Compass” K., Donna “Spyglass” Vo, Yutong “Melatonin” Zhang, Raubern “Eye of the Storm” Totanes, Ann “The Most Sober Birthday Girl In The World” Wen, Eric “Doggy Paddling Pirate Booty” Pan, Alice “Chief Sunrise Officer” Hong, Justin “Chief Diving Officer” Chiu, Sabrina “Chief Mate” Poon, Ashley “Chief Roasting Officer” Jia, Ashley “Power Naps” Koide, Anderson “First Officer” Lee, Nishant “E-Bike Downed Under” Anandan, Song “Can’t Hardly Wait” Kim, Daisy “Hotel Sardinia” Jing, Alan “Find My iPhone” Hsu, Uriah “Sea Legs” Kim, Nina “It’s Not A Toomah!” Zhou, Sujay “Fashionably Late” Sheth, Leo “Predator Drone” Liu, Alice “Miss Sardinia” Zhang, Jeanette “Chief Sleepy Risky Officer” Wong, Patricia “Art Dealer” Housiem, Gina “Million Dollar Wakeboarder” Fortunato, Tom “Captain Morgan” Chen, Chyne “Papa Bear” Tan, Sampson “The Naughty Pirate” Lau, Priscilla “Rabbit’s Foot Walking on Meteor Showers” Yoon, Gina “Shot O’ Clock” Yoon, Belle “Chief Ambassador” Suppapanya, Alex “Harbourmaster” Yang, Evie “Voices of the Sea” Joy, Christy “Fashion Week” Hoang
Cyprus (Jun 7-12, 2021)
Extreme Egypt: The 10 Year Anniversary Trip (Nov 27 - Dec 7, 2019)
Off The Coast of Tanzania (Aug. 17 - Sept. 3, 2019)
Isle of Man & Northern Ireland (May 27-30, 2019)
Barbados (Apr. 11, 2019)
Prague & Budapest (Jan. 17-21, 2019)
Armenia & Artsakh (Nov 11 - 19, 2018)
Azerbaijan & Nakhchivan (Aug 25 - 30, 2018)
Elizabeth “Dr. McStuffins” Silberholz, Brandon “Ip Man” Foo, Nigar “ENT STAT” Ahmedli, Etibar “The Green Giant” Akhmedli, Anya “Nina Simone” Solovyeva
Central Europe (Mar. 23 - 28, 2018)
Aaron “The Prodigal Son” Lam, Jazmin “Falling Overnight” Juarez, Jessica “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” Hong, Raubern “Waking Life” Totanes, Anthony “Midnight In Budapest” Ventimiglia, Daniela “Before Sunrise” Zarzer, Keseena “Before Sunset” Chengadu, Maria “Before Midnight” Laidlaw, Jenny “Begin Again” Wang, Brittany “The One-Hundred Foot Journey”
Moldova & Transnistria (Nov 10-11, 2017)
Nick “McFeltersnatch” Sellers, Reece “Responsibly Irresponsible” Perry, Ben “The Debt Collector” Fox, Alex “The Transporter”
The Baltic Crescent '17, Led by Taylan Stulting: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Oct. 14-29, 2017)
Taylan “You Do You” Stulting, Rupa “I’m Over It” Patel, Carol “Wang Wang” Wong
The Microstates (May 19 - Jun. 2, 2017)
Joseph “Sensual Food Critic” Woo, Samin “Cuddle-buddy” Rai, Mihaela “ROFLMAO”, Ann “30 Seconds of Fame” Wen, Alfred “Ray-Ban/20 Questions” Yeung, Koichi “FOX News” Sakamaki, Steph “Honorary Asian” Hart, Anonymous “Better Late Than Never” Anonymous, Kimberly “Oh F***” Duong, Yannick “Brotherly Love” Della Schiava
The Trans-Monglian + Tibet (Dec. 31, 2016 - Jan. 17, 2017)
Melissa “Storytime” Weinmann, Taylan “Plagues of Egypt” Stulting, JC “Closet Premed” Chan, LaiYuen “The Spy From North Korea” Looi, David “Class President” Ali, Ihita “Secondhand Smoke” Kabir, June “Swedish House Mafia” Kao, Amanda “Puppy Genocide” Knarich, Mihaela “ROFLOLMAO”, Shanika “Happy Feet” Jayakody
Romania (Oct. 21-23, 2016)
Anonymous “In Denial” Anonymous, Ty “I’m With Her, Kinda” Headley, Dmitry “Birthday Boy” Dobrovolskiy
Southern Africa (Aug. 1-15, 2016)
Michelle “Adventure Pants” Duncan, Kel “Hopeless Romantic” Sage, Ambrose “The Epicurean” Chu, Sarah “Poland Spring” Parise, Linda “A Lannister Always Pays Her Debts” Zhou, Sze “March Of The Penguins” Chan, Nadi “Guardian Angel” Kaonga, Samantha “FML” Kay Miller, Mikey “The Virgin” Ryan, Aaron “Boy Wonder” Lam
Puerto Rico (Feb. 15-17, 2016)
Michelle “Miss Honey [of Matilda]” Duncan, Sandra “The Cadet” Davis, Amber Lee Makhani, Anonymous “In Denial” Anonymous
The Silk Road: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia (Dec. 27, 2015 - Jan. 12, 2016)
Eilidh “Secondhand Shoes” Crowley, Ben “Encyclopedia Australiannica” Crowley, Yvonne “Beginner’s Luck” Liu, Patricia “Dancing Turkey” Tsai, Chris “The Monkey King” Tang, Johnson “The Spy From S.I.N.G.A.P.O.R.E.”, Melissa “Candy Floss”, Remi “The BEKoning” Coker, Siavash “Persian Rugs” Dejgosha, Matt “Oh My Days” Peters, Helen “Potato Salad” Chou, Tan “Bukharan Idol” Nguyen, Ines “Bee’s Knees” Petri, Claudia “Marlboro Lady” Petri, Anna “Everybody’s Russian!” Zavalova, Anne “Postcards From The Edge” Davison, Velvet “Everyone’s Favorite Cool Aunt”
Extreme South America: Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad & Tobago (Apr. 12-22, 2015)
Jennifer “Map&Move” Li, Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson, Rik “The Flying Dutchman” Brinks, Lei “Monk” Zhao, Patrick “Jade Dragon Coffee Health Center” Han, Maddie “The Engineer” Ene, Cindy “Ploppity” Cui, Calvin “One-Armed Bandit” Chen, Yoni “Birthday Boy” Rubin, Clay Gilliland, Tom Peddle, Freddy Lansky, George Martin, Donal Mulvihill
Extreme SE Asia: The Philippines, The Palawan Islands, Indonesia, East Timor-Leste, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Macau, Hong Kong (Dec. 2-15, 2014)
Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson, Samantha “Alice” Kay Miller, Dave “Tarzan” Zhou, Alfred “20 Questions” Yeung, Tan “Lieutenant Tan” Nguyen, Mariam “The Queen” Dar, Jenny “Ayurveda” Chu, June “Mamabear” Kao, James “Leaps of Faith” Stephens, Lilliane “High Stakes” Ng, Kevin “Rabies” Zhao, Gordon “The Trainer” Pan, Anthony “The Artist” Lui, Christina “Detours” Gee, Eric “Where’s The Party Yaar?” Chen, Adison “One Shoe” Song, Tim “GoProFlow” Chen, Jennifer “Nomadic Strawberry” Li, Christina “Conference Calls” Elise, Andrew “Hot Wheels” Chang
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru (Apr. 10-22, 2014)
Angela “The Lieutenant” Chen, Jun “Poker Face” Wakabayashi, Quechau “Altitude Warrior” Thai, Chris “Gets Up For Pregnant Women” Chen, Ben “The Photographer” Dumond, Cindy “Oakland” Lu, Natasha “The Translator” Neris, Andy “The Virgin” Wu, Shanika “The Alchemist” Jayakody, Karthik “Memory Cards” Ganapathy
Iceland (Oct. 31 – Nov. 03, 2013)
Andrea “The Activist” Trillo, Mel “Puffin-Toed” Tri, Danny “Gonna Shank You” Tran, Jenn “The Unicorn” Lau, Tracy “Queen of Scots” Thai, Bill “Prefontaine” Zhang, Alistair “Monkey Bars/Where’s Alistair?” Morgan, Suhrid “Subkuch Milega” Mantravadi, Freema “Gunner Wants Sum Borscht” Vinnikov
Haiti & Dominican Republic (Jan. 01-06, 2013)
Reny “The Ambassador” Pascual, Jackie “The Artist” Ho, Ben “Walking Stick” Tso, Sam “Firecracker” Wong
Iran, Germany, Austria, Switzerland (April 4-14, 2012)
Sonny “The Romantic” Tieu, Gai Olivaires, Andrew “The German” Chu, Evan “The Interpreter” Jones, Anna “The Bookkeeper” Wong, Jade “The Sketcher” Shyu, Nina “Weapon of Mass Destruction” Yang, Cynthia “Why I Move” Koo, Gareth “The Guvnor” Johnson
Guatemala & Belize (Nov. 23-27, 2011)
Anna “The Bookkeeper” Wong, Cynthia “The Newbie” Koo, Maria “The Translator” Funes
Pioneering Monsooners (Jun 30, 2011 – Jul 17, 2011)
Pioneering Monsooner - Turkey (Jun 11-18, 2011), Cuba (Apr. 25 - May 3rd, 2014)
Pioneering Monsooner
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