Travelogues
Reaching Tarfaya
[ Tarfaya, Morocco ] The ride out of Tan-Tan was supposed to be a straightforward 24km jaunt to the Atlantic coast…a last climb and some morning crosswinds
February 4, 2018
[ Tarfaya, Morocco ] The ride out of Tan-Tan was supposed to be a straightforward 24km jaunt to the Atlantic coast…a last climb and some morning crosswinds
[ Tarfaya, Morocco ] So it’s February 3rd, and I’m in Tarfaya. It’s my birthday, and I feel like I should do SOMETHING to celebrate. The Greco-Roman
[ TanTan, Morocco ] Another day off the bike. Unplanned and undesired, but there you have it. Willing mind. Weak flesh. Etc, etc. I arrived here
[ Guelmim, Morocco ] Happy Monday! It only took me three easy-riding days to get from Tiznit to Guelmim, even with a full 24-hour stop in
[ Tiznit, Morocco ] I arrived here 12 days ago. Then I rested a lot. Then I took a bus to Marrakech to meet a friend.
[ Tiznit, Morocco ] It’s hard to believe, but I started riding southward from Casablanca four weeks ago this coming Monday. After getting caught in a
[ Taliouine, Morocco ] To say I’m miserable in this moment would be understatement. To pass the time—and there will be hours of it—I imagine my current
[ Tazenakht, Morocco ] After almost a week’s rest in Ouarzazate, I started 2018 with a bang. And by “bang” I mean “piste”–in the Sahara and
[ Ouarzazate, Morocco ] The days since Tanant have been a pretty serious reality check, and a reminder that when you start a hard ride with
[ Demnat, Morocco ] Burrowed deeply underneath multiple blankets and a sleeping bag, a screaming bladder and the morning call to prayers interrupt my slumber.
[ Tanant, Morocco ] I guess it’s official: I’m on the road, I more or less have my sea-legs under me, and am getting used to
[ Casablanca ] I love maps. Even more, I love the graph-theoretical exercise of superimposing arbitrary sets of vertices upon them, strung together with the most
