Our plan yesterday: Why it’s controversial (more on that later): Even more controversial? Our last night in Agadir . . . After nursing our hangovers and saying our goodbyes to Crystal, sorrowfully dropping her at the airport to the tune of...
Gooooood morning Tlemcen! This morning we hopped on a 3 hour morning drive back to Oran, where we dropped off our bags at the hotel and began our tour of the city with the Fort of Santa Cruz: The fort has changed hands as often as Algeria as changed...
After a morning in the off-the-grid deserts of Timimoun yesterday, we headed to the airport to catch our 5:10pm flight to Oran, the second biggest city of Algeria. Despite a nerve-racking turbulent flight for nearly an hour in a rainstorm, we managed to still...
After breakfast in Taghit, at 9am we hopped on our mini-van heading to Timimoun while being accompanied by a police escort the entire time. It was 9 hours of this outside: We briefly stopped to look at unguarded fossils of sea life from…the Cambria age? ...
Our original plan was to head to the Roman ruins of Djemila today, but we would be informed last night that the military had recently closed it off for unknown reasons. Never deterred, however, we instead upgraded last minute to something even bigger and better:...
Once in a while, I’m blessed to write up and release a blogpost that will stand the test of time in my memories. This is one of those posts. The irony of today rests in the fact that after a decade visiting 180 countries and territories, that it would...
After a whirlwind first day in Cairo, we woke up bright and early at 4am for the Pyramids. Just like good old times. Today we changed nothing on the plan I did 10 years ago. Everything was planned to the tee to be exactly the same except that instead of 4-5...
