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…
Landing In Tunis
We’re doing something a little different this time. Up until now, we’ve concentrated on staying in the center wherever we are, either hard by or right in the zocalo or Medina. That kind of took…
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…
Fes
We hadn’t ventured outside Marrakech during the first part of our visit. Our friends (Bruce & Meredith + Fred & Liz) took a day trip with our host Siham to the desert, with a hike…
Rockin’ The Kasbah
Oh my, it feels good to be back out in the world. Three months in the US was too much. It was full, but other than our daughter Ruby’s wedding what it was full of…
Guanajuato: A Mass Of Igneous WTF
This is the second time we’ve transitioned out of the US. The first was when we started this folly and left for Oaxaca. Our response to that transition was roughly, “Holy shit, we’re really doing…
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…
An Unprecedented Level Of Fuckery
One of the principles underlying this adventure is shopping. I don’t mean tourist shopping, for handicrafts and native artifacts. I mean shopping to feed ourselves, which is the activity that most ties us to local…