This cheerful slogan pops up many places: posters, t-shirts & random signs, and really typifies most locals we met — friendly, helpful, and just downright nice. Heeding our previous lesson in bus seating, we stood on the corner near our hotel in San Ignacio to flag down the bus before…

The Caribbean country of contrasts: sunny tropical beaches and steamy rainforests; crispy-hot fryjacks and iced coffee; Mayas and Mennonites; spoken English and creole patois. From the moment you step outside of the airport you realize you’re not in Kansas anymore. Taxi drivers and tour operators immediately accost every foreigner emerging…

Our plan was to get closer to the States before the new Covid surge locked everything down. Morocco had just suspended all flights with the UK, Sweden & Germany, but Mexico seemed to be wide open. …

Everyone was a little sad to leave behind our desert adventures, but there were more waiting for us as we boarded our van about 9am and turned west towards the Todra Gorge and M’Goun Valley. Little more than an hour later Jamal wheeled us into the parking lot of Macro…

Friday morning, October 15th we are up and on the road, heading south out of the city. Destination — the High Atlas Mountains! A few hours later we stopped for lunch in Ifrane, a hill station town at an elevation close to one mile. Ifrane is a popular vacation spot…

The sun had already set by the time we rolled into the beginnings of Chefchaouen, and Jamal pulled off the road into a parking area. Lights shown forth from the jumble of buildings in the distance, stacked up against the base of Mount El-Chaouene in the foothills of the Rif…

Morocco Treks — The Imperial Cities Susie and I have always been independent travelers, shunning the large groups and finding our own way with lodging, transportation, and local sights. This is certainly more work, but when we are “slow traveling” it allows us to visit places of interest and relax in between. When our time ran…