Month: May, 2010

Sahara Diaries, Part 2: Berber Food and Folk Music

May 14, 2010 The dusty streets of Zagora feel very far away and very long ago. It’s hard to believe it was only yes­ter­day. The con­trast between the desert and even a small town like Zagora couldn’t be more pro­nounced. When the wind dies down out here, it is per­fectly still. Perfectly quiet. We are about [...]

Sahara Diaries, Part 1: Marrakesh to Zagora

This is the first part of a six-part series on our camel trek in the Moroccan Sahara. The addi­tional entries will be posted each day over the next week. After that, you can see all six here. May 13, 2010 As I write this we’re only about two hours into our great Sahara adven­ture and it’s [...]

Observations of Morocco: El-Jadida, Essaouria and Marrakech

Editor’s Note: The photos on this blog are the work of each post other, unless noted oth­er­wise. My lovely wife Laura shot all these ones. She deserves the mad props. Our intro­duc­tion to Morocco went rather smooth con­sid­er­ing we had spent the pre­vi­ous night loun­ging around the Milano airport unable to sleep.  Stumbling up to the [...]

Sahara Teaser

We made this video in Zagora, the night we got out of the desert in order to tease our blog readers with the upcom­ing content and to let every­one know we were safe and sound.

Alive and well.

Hey all y’all. We’re still alive, despite 5 days in the oppress­ive heat of the Sahara desert. We even made a video update to hold you over, but the Internet con­nec­tions in Zagora are shite. It is a pretty cool video though. We put together a cast of thou­sands and created some new CGI effects. [...]