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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2/13/09 The other day before our Italian friend Claudio left, Hanane’s brother Fouad took us to the Hammam,the Arab baths. The Hammam is a public building that is not far from the Souidi home. There is not a western style shower here and so we tend to take baths with water heated on the fire [...]

2/12/09 On the African continent in the country of Morocco, in the village of Safrou lives a Shepherd named Selim with his wife Khadjia, his son Fouad, and his daughters Zahara, Fatima, and Hanane. Oddly enough, recently there has been a new addition to the household, a shiftless American vagobond. Yes, I am staying here [...]