A euro summer guide suitable for your group chat. New post: #travel #humor #europe #eurosummer
What Your Euro Summer Destination Says About You
A definitive and mostly unfair guide.
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Scott Monaco
@bsmonaco.bsky.social
I write about people, place, and the quietly absurd moments that reveal how we move through the world. read.scottmonaco.travel
Libby notifications on my phone > any other notification on my phone. #libraries #reading #books
Have you flown Cathay Pacific recently? If so, what was your experience like? #travel #hongkong #cathaypacific
Twelve Dollars & Twelve Years Later
On the world's best airline and what is left of it
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Entrepreneurship is alive on the streets in Maputo, even in the languid mid-day heat. #travel #streetphotography #mozambique #africa
A story about Cathay Pacific in two parts, twelve years apart. New post: #travel #aviation #hongkong
Twelve Dollars & Twelve Years Later
On the world's best airline and what is left of it
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Submissions close this Friday! If you have a travel story we'd love to read it (and we pay)! #travel #travelwriting
Scott Monaco Is Open for Submissions
We pay $50–$200 for writing and photography about the Global South and less-traveled destinations. Open through July 31.
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Would you go on a vacation if you could not take or post a single photo or video from the trip? #travel #travelquestion
Spent a good stretch of May and June on the maiden run of Rovos Rail's Malawi Meander, from Lilongwe to Pretoria. This is the first glimpse from Lake Malawi. More to come from on the rails and off. #travel #traintravel #africatravel
Taking a Nile cruise is great, but sometimes the road will teach you more. #travel #egypt
Drive Like an Egyptian
On the road through southern Egypt (Way-oh, way-oh)
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Want to keep your friends on their toes? Start planning a trip with one of them in the group chat. #travel
Entrepreneurial spirit is alive in Egypt. New story: #travel #egypt #nileriver
Drive Like an Egyptian
On the road through southern Egypt (Way-oh, way-oh)
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What can a broken passport tell you about travel? #travel #passport #airport
A Broken Passport Still Works
On borders, certainty, and the stories travel tells about itself
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Time, energy, access, personality. Four things that determine whether any travel recommendation works, and usually none of them get mentioned. #travel #travelbetter #traveltips
Most Travel Advice Is Written for Someone Else
You're not the traveler it was made for. You never were.
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I was reminded of this project the other day while working on something and wanted to share. In 2010, Erica Fischer used geotagged Flickr photos to map where tourists and locals take pictures in 136 cities. Blue is locals. Red is tourists. Their project is here check it out: #travel #tourism #maps
Locals and Tourists
(Click Detail to see the city names) Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for ...
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The view when you borrowed the gear is the same view as when you bought everything. Just get out there and have a great trip. #travel #travelinspiration
Today I'm excited and nervous in equal measure. New website, new everything, and Scott Monaco is officially open for submissions. We're looking for personal essays, photo essays, and humor from these places. Closes July 31. We pay! #travelwriting #travel
Scott Monaco Is Open for Submissions
We pay $50–$200 for writing and photography about the Global South and less-traveled destinations. Open through July 31.
read.scottmonaco.travel
Today I'm excited and nervous in equal measure. New website, new everything, and Scott Monaco is officially open for submissions. We're looking for personal essays, photo essays, and humor from these places. Closes July 31. We pay! #travelwriting #travel
Scott Monaco Is Open for Submissions
We pay $50–$200 for writing and photography about the Global South and less-traveled destinations. Open through July 31.
read.scottmonaco.travel
The best education I ever got came from friends who grew up nowhere near me. Every one of them made the world feel bigger and smaller at the same time. Bigger because there was so much I didn't know. Smaller because now I knew someone in it. #travel #friendship
There's no purer chaos than a family of six trying to order one sandwich at a train station. #travel
Week 2 has more chances for The Queue! Head to SW19. #wimbledon #tennis #grandslam
You Can Just Show Up to Wimbledon
How The Queue works, what it costs, and what I learned getting Centre Court tickets the day of
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I don't want to be rich, I just want to be "I have a Japanese toilet at home" rich. #success #japan #lifegoals
Booking flights is a laptop job and everybody knows it. #travel
everyone's music library, 2004: Led Zepelin Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Led Zepplin
Today is the day that Gary has been waiting for! #fourthofjuly #vacation #summerbreak
Setting An Out-of-Office Reply in 2026
Gary is going on vacation.
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