Religion

Preparing for RamadanFes, MoroccoSeptember 15, 2007Homepage: North Africa page: It was the night before Ramadan and I did not know what to expect. The manager of the couscous restaurant that I had been eating my lunches and dinners at everyday told me that they would not be serving any food for the entire month of [...]

First Impressions of MoroccoCasablanca, MoroccoSeptember 7,2007 Hassan II MosqueI go to bed tonight, after my first day in Morocco, full of excitement. For there is a whole world that I have not yet explored The Muslim countries stretch to the east and all of Africa is to the south Whatever fatigue of the wandering spirit [...]

First Walk in MoroccoCasablanca, MoroccoSeptember 7,2007The first walk in a new country is, invariably, one of the most memorable.After coming into Casablanca at night and going directly to the Hotel Foucauld, I did not bed down with a clear conception of what the city was like. I was awakened to morning by the clucking of [...]

Upstate New YorkJuly 10, 2007“. . . even a rolling stone requires an occasional handful of moss.”-Harry Franck, Working North from PatagoniaAlpacas in Bosque de Piedras, Peru, 2001.As I ended up back in the USA I figure that I am afforded the opportunity to think through some of my previous travels and dig into the [...]

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia5.24.2007I decided to get out of Mongolia on a whim and bought a train ticket to strike back out across the Great Buddha Arch that stretches from Japan to Korea, through China, down into South East Asia , and then back up through India, Nepal, Tibet, North-Western China, and finally ending in the steppes [...]

Hangzhou, China04.22.2007The following photographs were taken around Hangzhou during this past month. Hangzhou is a city to just stroll in. If you try to do anything else you are just going to miss it. The first photograph is of a balloon vendor who walks along the streets just selling balloons all day.The photograph is of [...]

Hitching through JapanUpon hoping off the ferry and onto Shodo-Shima I went out by the roadside and stuck out a thumb. I was walking up a switchback that skirted the coast of the small hill island. As I was walking up the road a compacted Asian SUV stopped. It was only the second vehicle to [...]