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Photo of the Week – Zanzibar

African Sushi – Zanzibar
I love markets, they never disappoint.  This man in the Stonetown Market looked like had been carving up fish for hours.  A few minutes earlier I saw a man drag in a huge  hammer-head shark – amazing.  Read the entire Zanzibar market story on my post from 2006.
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Photo of the Week – July 28, 2009

As I travel through Mongolia this week, I decided to have a photo flashback!  Two years ago I was traveling through Morocco – one of my favorite countries!  I recently went back to edit some writing and photography about my time there.  Enjoy this flashback of photos and check out one of the most popular [...]

Yella! Moving on from Egypt

Photo: The many towers of the Mohammad Ali Mosque in Cairo
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Egypt was a quick stop for me – 2 weeks, but I covered a lot of ground. I went from South to North, from Dessert to [...]

Living to Die – Tombs of Egypt

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One of my favorite sayings to live by is “work to live” – it’s really what I tried to follow while living and working in NYC. Quite frankly – I worked my [...]

Holy Moses – Egypt’s Red Sea and Mt. Sinai!

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View snapshots of the Red Sea and surrounding canyons
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Photo: Sawa camp on the Red Sea
The Red Sea was next on our Moses Tour. This was my favorite part in the movie…the water even looked red in the TV version – and Charleton Heston’s ability [...]

The Mother of All Project Plans – Ancient Egypt

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I must confess – I’m not really into ancient sites, it’s just not my thing. I was bored by Pompeii, disinterested in the Parthenon, and I skipped the Roman Forum altogether – for some reason – these places just aren’t as interesting to me as simply going [...]

Convoys and Hubbly Bubbly – Arriving in Egypt

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I mistakenly arrived in Egypt thinking that it would be very similar to Morocco. That’s like thinking that California and New York are similar…and having lived in both – I know that’s not true. Sure, the two [...]

Holy Moses – Cruising the Nile River

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My only knowledge of Egypt really comes from an unlikely source – Charleton Heston. I can still remember my family all sitting around the one TV we had and watching the Ten Commandments…it was a huge event for us – we were even allowed to eat in front [...]

Losing my Marbles – Hostage Crisis at an Airport Hotel

After nearly 11 months of travel, it finally happened – I finally reached the end of my rope. Thanks to Egypt Air and Royal Air Maroc Airlines – I nearly had a nervous breakdown that was colossal. I actually had visions of me ending up in a Moroccan jail, arrested by the airport police in [...]

Moroccan Rainbow – Final Thoughts

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I’m sure you might be surprised that I didn’t use the obvious title choice for this Moroccan send-off post – Rockin’ the Kasbah… I did actually think about it, but that’s not what I think of when I examine my parting thoughts about Morocco. From the moment I started journeying around Morocco – [...]

Disappearance of the Traveling Pants

While I was traveling in Essaouria, Morocco I had a funny experience with my traveling pants may they rest in peace.
During my travels with a limited wardrobe, you start to have your favorite travel clothes. Mine are a pair of cotton pants. I love these pants…they are the best…you’ve seen tons of pictures with me in [...]

Turning down the volume…Tangier, Essaouria, and Chefchaouen

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The last week of travel through Morocco was when I finally hit my groove…I had started to get really comfortable with ‘real’ travel again. When I first arrived in Morocco – I was rather tense, on guard, and untrusting. Marrakech was a crazy place full [...]

Goats in Trees!

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Since I really didn’t have a book about Morocco, I was learning things as I was experiencing them, as well as learning about things through my other travel partners that had ample books on Morocco. After the first week, someone in my group mentioned in passing something [...]

The Grand Puba of Morocco – Fez

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Prior to 10 months ago, the only time I had anyone utter the word fez was on the TV show Happy Days. I’m sure that you all remember Mr. Cunningham and his Grand Puba group – as a member of the Grand Puba, he had to wear a fez hat [...]

Pass The Barf Bag Please; Wonderings On a Bus

 
I’m feeling a bit reflective. I haven’t felt that way for a while…or maybe it’s just been in my head and I haven’t let it out in a while. I’m on a bus in Morocco traveling between Cefchaouan and Tangier…a 4 hr bus ride from hell. It’s hot; extremely hot, the air conditioning isn’t working, [...]

Sand In Every Orifice – The Sahara

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We had been driving for about 4 hours when we turned off the bumpy road onto the flat expanse of desert. You could see for miles. There were no roads, just a few tire tracks and a bunch of signs sticking in the sand advertising various hotels that [...]

Culural Trekking in Morocco

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View snapshots of Morocco - the first week
We spent our first week in Morocco mainly enjoying the country side. We had a couple of days in Marrakech to look around the medina (old neighborhood) and the souks – it was nice, but not a place I would go back to. I have mainly enjoyed [...]