By now, Sidi Mohamed knew me. I had permission to take a double handful of dried pink rosebuds from the wooden barrel in front of his market stand. Sidi Mohamed was one of several merchants I had gotten to know on my daily morning food and bric-a-brac shopping trips to the markets in Rabat’s medina […]
“I think I just saw a zebra!” said my 16-year-old son. To be clear, we were not on an African safari, nor at a zoo. In fact, we were traveling along California’s Highway 1. This is one of many funny and fond memories we have of one of our family’s all-time favorite spring break trips […]
For most of my four decades as a traveler, I have been a cultural quester more than a wildlife wanderer. I’ve lived in Paris, Athens, Tokyo, and San Francisco, places where you’re much more likely to encounter a legion of latte-sippers than a leap of leopards. And when I’ve ventured farther afield, I’ve tended toward […]