One of our post-Middle-East-trip pledges is to do more local travel. Cheaply, if we can. The Billygoat trail hike in August was awesome and it reminded us how much we like camping. We have a shed of hiking and car…
Video: Sometimes the best places are close to home.
We spent the day along the Potomac hiking the upper section of the Billy Goat trail. This would have counted as an amazing hike if it had been Peru, Mozambique or Cambodia. But it’s in our backyard. Go Maryland! Made…
Sahara Desert and M’hamid, Morocco: Day 25
We don’t have to drive far today to our next spot, only about 25 miles. It affords us some time to sleep in (til 8 a.m., ha!) and eat a slow breakfast of fresh bread, both baked and a fried…
High Atlas Mountains and Zagora, Morocco: Day 24
Road trip, YEAH! Planes and trains can get us no closer to our destination. Our home for the next week is on the road, traveling south and east past smaller and smaller towns on narrower and narrower roads. Each night…
Marrakesh, Morocco: Day 23
If the Arab world didn’t have oil, Egypt and Morocco would be the dominant economic players. They have the the largest non-oil GDPs, very strategic locations and the first and third largest populations (Sudan is second). Morocco is a cultural…