Back-dating this to Saturday, October 21st, 2017, even though it’s June 6th, 2020 by the time I’m posting it So, full disclosure, I’m writing this post from 35K feet, more than two full years after it happened. I’m on my way to Asia for the first real time (that one…

Back-dating this to Saturday, October 21st, 2017, at the time of the train ride mentioned, even though it’s June 6th 2020, by the time I’m posting it Our journeys to and within Marrakesh are exceptionally sound. I should here take a brief moment to make a public service announcement in…

Back-dating this to its draft date, Friday, October 18th, 2017, even though it’s June 6th, 2020 by the time I’m posting it In 1492Some Jews painted Chefchaoen blue Spain for a while existed in relative religious harmony between Catholics, Moors, and Sephardic Jews. In 1492, however, the old xenophobic pendulum…

Meow. Et je te manque aussi. Je sens : je suis très drôle.

Today we walked around the Medina in Fez, the old walled city. If you’ve never been in an old city, you need to imagine a place with not a square inch of public dirt or grass. The cobbled lanes have narrow low gutters on either side, and shops and doorways…

I hadn’t prepared myself for Morocco smelling like Africa, too—that sweet, earthy, dusty smell of sand, vegetation, and fires. As soon as I step off the plane, I take whole lungfuls of that sweet air, smiling as I saunter down the stairs of the gangway onto the tarmac. This land….