Just a quick video update from Fez, Morocco, where we just returned from 5 days in the desert, and endured a 24 hour bus ride to get here. We only have a few days left in Morocco, and we’re both quite drained from the con­stant travel in our attempt to get a feel for this place in a scant three weeks.

The video was recor­ded at the top of the highest dune at Erg Chigaga, a sprawl­ing area of sand that sits on the north­ern Sahara less than 40 km from the Morocco/Algeria border. We trekked 4 days on foot to get there, over 60 km of brutal desert. This morning I fin­ished typing up my notes from out there (some­where, ha ha), and will be pub­lish­ing those along with some pho­to­graphs from the trip as part of a series of posts I’m calling Sahara Diaries. It’s some­thing a little dif­fer­ent from what we usually do around here. It’s a bit more per­sonal and a bit more magazine-y. I hope you enjoy it.

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. But after trying in three Internet cafes to get it online, we real­ized we had to wait for the faster con­nec­tion speeds of a big city like Fez. So, here it is, a little late, but still worth a watch. Laura has some posts on Morocco in the works, and my series will start to be pub­lished in serial form over the next week or so. Check back soon!