Travelogues
Morocco 2: High Atlas to Ouarzazate
[ Ouarzazate, Morocco ] The days since Tanant have been a pretty serious reality check, and a reminder that when you start a hard ride with
December 30, 2017
[ 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
[ Casablanca ] A few hours in assorted tin cans of the flying variety, one easy cab ride, an unnecessary game of tag with my would-be
[ Manvel ] Here I sit at Intercontinental Airport in Houston, getting ready to depart for Dallas, then Madrid, then Casablanca. Might as well share a
[ Manvel ] Two departure dates have come and gone, but the third is indeed the charm: my ticket is booked, bags are largely packed,
[ Manvel ] As you may or may not be able to discern from the above image, that’s a rod and a couple of pins
[ Kathmandu ] After the relatively uneventful, eight-hour van (née bus) journey from Pokhara, I hopped a taxi to my usual digs in Thamel, Red
[ Pokhara ] From time to time most of us think we’ve hit upon some plan or idea or dream that is different—something ultra cool, undeniably unique,
[ Pokhara ] For those of you who don’t already know, I launched a Patreon crowdfunding campaign in late June, early July. I spread the
[ Pokhara ] As my departure from Nepal approaches, and Africa looms, the hourglass of my first half-decade in the Himalaya is releasing its final
