Here's the thing about Rabat: it's not a very beautiful city.  It's a decent enough place––there's a nice walk along the river, and it's fun to wander around the old medina––but the region itself...

As of starting writing this post, it is 10:39 p.m. on October 2, which means that it is 3:39 over in Walla Walla.  We just had our daylight savings time end, so we've already fallen back an hour. I...

You know that irrational fatigue you get when you've done nothing but eat a lot and do minimal physical activity?  I've just come from a four-hour car ride, but I'm battling that fatigue for you,...

  Salam Aleikum, Whitman! Since the past week that I've been here, I've come to know Rabatis as some of the most hospitable people I've met.  I say this despite the mild harassment...

While preparing for liftoff (which, as of writing, is only two days away, ohgoodnessgollygeewhizcrapIneedtofinishpacking), I've been asked by multiple people, "Why Morocco?"  It's a good question: Morocco...

Britney Spears once penned, "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman."  She then proceeded to put these words into song, and then had this song featured in her 2002 sort-of-smash hit Crossroads (also starring...