There Goes the College Fund

Coming back to Marrakesh after six weeks on the road was like coming back to an entirely different city. Instead of staying in the medina...

Wanted to rewind to a day trip we took last week to Sidi Ifni, a fishing port 20 minutes down the coast from Mirleft. Sidi Ifni was under...

I find myself planning our retirement, all the places we’ll go when the kids are up and out of our laissez-faire care. Alaska. Antartica....

Many starts to this blog post. First I started writing about the amazing German couple we met. Turns out Billy and I aren’t nearly as...

I grew up in the far south suburbs of Chicago, a place that isn’t really considered a suburb except by the people that live there. When I...

Do you remember that girl - woman, I guess - a couple years ago who was on her way to Africa, and before the plane took off she tweeted...

Inertia = Death. This was one of my Dad’s many maxims, passed on to me at such an early age I thought it a law as universal as “No...

There is a place on the wind-wracked Atlantic coast of Morocco that even Lonely Planet hasn’t discovered yet. It’s populated with guys...

For some, one of the best things about travelling is the food. For others, the thought grips us with an indigestible sense of panic. We...

Okay, yes, the medina was beautiful, the riad, flawless, the people, beyond welcoming. But somewhere between Wilder slapping our...

Gearing up for this trip, the thing that made me the most nervous was Morroco. It just seemed like such a - and this is gonna sound as...

You know how in Bridget Jones Diary she keeps a tally of how many units of alcohol and cigarettes she’s had? I was thinking that for this...