Tunisia Road Trip, Partie Deux: Sousse
Assembling a road trip turned out to be complicated. There are so many worthwhile locations here. Nabeul was the easy part. We were expecting to lose our shit over the ceramics, and we did not…
Tunisia Road Trip, Partie Un: Nabeul
Tunisia is relatively small, but still too big to ignore. Being here for three months and seeing nothing but Carthage and Tunis would be a sin. Plus, an entire month of Ramadan left us with…
Carthage: “Oh, This Old Thing?”
Foolishly, when writing about Marrakech and Fes, I leaned into how old they felt. That take was destined to age poorly, and it didn’t take long. I take it all back. Tunisia is fucking old.…
The Moroccan Fashion Scene
There isn’t a lot to say about the Marrakech fashion scene, but holy shit is there a lot to show. The Kasbah is dotted with tiny little tailor’s shops, each of them producing something unique.…
Essaouira, Land of Many Vowels
Don’t get me wrong. We love Marrakech. But we don’t love everything about Marrakech. It feels like Morocco is on a ton of people’s bucket lists, and Marrakech is at the top of the bucket. It’s also easily accessible…
Moroccan Crafts
Oaxaca was a hotbed of crafts, with every village surrounding the capital specializing in something specific: rugs, textiles, black pottery, green pottery, metal work. Radishes (here, here, here, and especially here). But holy fuck, Morocco.…
Vernacular Design In Chetumal
Chetumal is all about poured concrete. Although I have no documentary proof, it must be because of the salt air. The paint on the concrete may fade or chip, but the structures retain their integrity.…
Tales Of The Quintana Roo
Our more worldly readers will know that our current location, Chetumal, is in the state of Quintana Roo, as is the rest of the Riviera Maya (Cancun, Cozumel, Tulum…). I love that the name sounds…
Sightseeing In La Habana
When I started this blog, I didn’t want it to be just a travelogue, a recitation of where we’ve been and what we’ve seen. That just didn’t seem interesting to me. If I was going…
Visiting Trinidad
We arrived in Habana, if just barely, on April 6th. Our local friend Jenn, halfway between fairy godmother and witch, had made arrangements for a group tour of one of Cuba’s oldest cities, Trinidad, on…