Vagobond

2/27/09

First of all, let me say thank you for all the congratulations, warm wishes, warnings, and announcements that I am out of my mind.

Of course I’m out of my mind. What kind of a person gives up his stock options to move into a VW bus and discover what it’s like to be homeless in [...]

2/20/09

This morning after a sleep beset by a wailing baby and a blaring television, I set off to find a good hostel. I had found one that looked fantastic, the Equity Point Hostel (aka Riad Amazigh) I arranged to check in at 11 and returned to the Hotel al Jazeera to get my bags. One [...]

I know this may seem odd, but I am on the road again. Don’t worry though, I haven’t abandoned new found love. Instead, this is a practicality. Admittedly, I have wanderlust and Hanane understands this, so while she arranges her passport and completes some English teacher trainings, I am hitting the road. Today I took [...]

2/19/09
The train ride from Casa Blanca to here was stunning.155 dirham: Orange fields of what I think were poppies, yellow fields of something else, purple fields of something else, green, hills, red rocks, and lots of beauty. I took no pictures.

Arrived here and an unfriendly cab driver tried to overcharge me and then dropped [...]

2/18/09

My hat and I finally made it to Rick’s Cafe in Casablanca.

Here is Olivier and his bike, he is trying to convince me to go to Senegal

With Olivier, the Swiss man I met in Rabat who biked here today while I took the train and with John, a friendly Englishman who arrived here several days [...]

2/18/09

I’m in Casablanca attempting to upload some pictures. I found the hostel here without too much problem and like Rabat, people here are much less in your face. Fes, while beautiful and interesting, was a terrible place to begin in Morocco. The touts and thieves and ever present people who want to sucker you into [...]

2/17/09

It’s a grey day in Rabat. That’s okay. I slept like a log last night and this morning met a guy that is bicycling from Geneva to Central Africa. Wow. He encouraged me to go to Senegal but the time is not yet. I walked to the Casbah, explored the Tower of Hassan, rambled through [...]

2/16/09

I know this may seem odd, but I am on the road again. Don’t worry though, I haven’t abandoned new found love. Instead, this is a practicality. Admittedly, I have wanderlust and Hanane understands this, so while she arranges her passport and completes some English teacher trainings, I am hitting the road. Today I [...]

2/14/09

I make rules for myself with the best of intentions and then I usually have to break them. One example of this is about to be demonstrated. At some point, I decided that blogging about my emotional life with others was something that I didn’t want to do, I’ve broken this rule before, and usually [...]