My Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca touched down in Nouakchott, Mauritania just after midnight. I was tired from my day and a half of travel from Algiers to Casablanca, ...
Oscar Niemeyer was the reason I chose to visit Algeria in the first place. After spending time among the seminal modernist architect’s works in Brasília the year prior, I was ...
Algeria and Mauritania are two of the most obscure nations on the planet, and among the least visited. No guidebooks in English exist for either country (other than a super ...
Despite a lack of information online, there is a vast number of hotels to choose from in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea. Before getting into the details about our ...
For David and me, the allure of travel is the way it allows us to understand places different from where we're from - and the more different a place, the ...
Getting a visa for Eritrea can be a trial... Since its independence in 1993, and particularly since its crackdown on free press in 2001, Eritrea has become a difficult place ...
A note to the reader: I've recently completed a guide to travel on the ground once you arrive in Eritrea - it's the most up to date and comprehensive guide ...
As a full time employee of Corporate America, I spend a lot more time daydreaming about travel than actually traveling. I toyed around with the idea last year of posting ...
I have written about my predilection for falling down rabbit holes before – see Chiatura, Georgia, what remains one of the highlights of David and my trip to the South ...
I am recently engaged. On our last trip (in Istanbul, Turkey and the South Caucasian nations of Georgia and Armenia), I proposed to my soon to be husband David. What’s ...
