It’s important to understand Ramadan even if you aren’t Muslim and especially if you are traveling to Muslim areas of the world.
Eid Mubarak from Vagobond
Eid Mubarak to all of my family, friends, neighbors, and readers. I hope that you have the most blessed holiday and year ever. As Muslims, we face challenges all the time and that is the way that the divine wants it to be. We should never forget that a challenge is a chance for us to overcome and get closer to God by becoming better human beings.
Back to Morocco, Back to Turkey
I leave Morocco with the two bags I arrived with. Of course, there are a few things that we are leaving at the in-laws house that we would like to have in a home someday if we ever have one. Also I am leaving my guitar and violin #2 here for the moment. The harmonica comes with me though.
Whirling Dervishes in Istanbul, Turkey
“The dervish whirls so that the true form of the world can be seen. When we whirl all the individual pieces we think are separate blend together and we begin to sense the totality that is God.”
Ramadan in Morocco with a Shepherd’s Family
I am fasting in Morocco during Ramadan in a mudbrick house while the temperatures soar and the tempers flare as the taxi drivers and passengers become unraveled because of heat and thirst.
The Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmet
Tweet The Sultan Ahmet region is named for Sultan Ahmet I who ruled from 1603 to 1617 AD. The Sultan Ahmet Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque was built near the Aya Sophia to provide a greater wonder than that of the Hagia Sophia. It was commissioned by the Sultan and designed by Mehmet Aga [...]
