Tweet 3/15/09 Yesterday was a short day trip to Fez for Hanane and me. It was a really enjoyable day. First of all we went to a giant tent city of used book sellers. this was like a treasure trove for both of us and we ended up spending about two hours and twenty five [...]

Tweet 3/11/2009 Yesterday was a holiday here in Morocco. Birth of the Prophet, so we ate a big breakfast of cookies and cake and then killed a sheep. Here are a few pictures. Later we ate the intestines, stomach, heart (stuffed with garlic), forelegs, and other tasty bits. To be honest, while I enjoy eating [...]

Tweet 3/10/09 I feel like I have traveled around enough in Morocco at this point to write a small piece on how transport works here. In a nutshell, it works, but only in the most loosely defined sense of the word. In my initial travelling around Morocco, I thought that maybe as a foreigner I [...]

Tweet 3/10/09 On Sunday, Hanane and I set out from Sefrou to take a small daytrip to a couple of nice little towns that aren’t too far away. The total for the day with breakfast, lunch, dinner, ice cream, transport, and small gifts for the family was about 287 dirhams, or a little more than [...]

Tweet 3/8/09 Paul Harvey may be dead, but now you get the rest of the story on my shoes. Yesterday, I returned to the shop of Mohammad the Cobbler where my shoes were in exactly the same state they were in when Hanane and I left two days ago. As soon as we left, the [...]

Tweet 3/7/09 I admit to being a bit bored in Morocco lately. Sefrou isn’t exactly exciting. But, the surprising thing is that I don’t find myself missing Hawaii even a little bit. I miss my friends of course, but I don’t miss Hawaii or really anywhere else enough to wish I were there… One of [...]