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Welcome to Guelmim, Morocco, the gateway to the Sahara!
Cost/day: ~$24
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately?
Camel meat is a common ingredient in the southern area of Morocco. There are 3 types of camel, and each color has its own function. White camels are special as they can smell water from … Read more »
I first read Vagabonding in 2006, when we were in the throes of planning what we expected to be a one year trip. I was devouring everything I could find for inspiration, looking for the tools I needed as we grappled with breaking free from a very “normal” American life and plunging into the unknown, with four kids in tow. I’d read books specific to every … Read more »
“When you travel, A new silence Goes with you, And if you listen, You will hear What your heart would Love to say.” –John O’Donohue, “For the Traveler” (2008)
Perhaps the evenings are what captivate me the most, when the heart of the island basks in the falling light. People hurry home from work on their motorbikes, picking up food from the market on their way. No tourists can be seen, save by the hostels and Western style bars, but they are few surrounding the … Read more »
Jack Cooke
https://jackandkateaus.wordpress.com/
It is odd to realize that a luxury hotel can be the means for budget travel, and therefore, sustainable travel for my husband and I. But strange as it sounds, we have found this to be the case.
For instance when we arrived in Venice a few weeks ago and needed a place to … Read more »
Cost: $22/adults $12.50/kids
What’s the coolest thing you’ve done lately?
Extreme Bungee!! Get strapped into a harness and shot into the air with up to 4G forces pressing against your body… basically you’re a human catapult. That’s extreme bungee.
Describe the experience:
We are picked up by Lionel who owns … Read more »
I have to admit that I am not a techno-junkie. I resist the pull of technology assiduously, but even I am forced to admit that there are some really fantastic new “toys” out there that make travel easier and provide possibilities for the independent traveler that didn’t exist in the era of paper maps.
“Part of what interested me so much about pilgrimage as a concept—what made me think it might work as a structure to hang a bunch of other stuff (questions of restlessness and purpose and forgiveness) on—was that, the more I read and talked and thought about it, the more capacious the idea seemed: Pretty much anything can be described as a pilgrimage. People talk about pilgrimages to Graceland or Cooperstown, or to see Saturn Devouring … Read more »
Some questions just never get old.
This question came in almost eleven years ago from a reader. Rolf’s answer is as applicable today as it was over a decade ago. Do you wonder if it’s still safe to travel?
I got an interesting question from a woman in Texas. The gist of it was this: With all the news of war and anti-Americanism abroad, … Read more »