We also finally made it to Crater Lake (previous trips had too much wildfire smoke), but I was too committed to the silly alliteration to include it in the title. Sometimes a dear pal reaches out to say they might be busy in August, so would it be possible for me to come visit earlier. Keep reading
Hoo boy! These final Tunisia days were in June, and I’m only now posting in September. Feels like that’s a record for me. This task suddenly became overwhelming. How to sum up this trip, etc? And then, the longer I delayed, the bigger I was building it up in my mind. Dumb. Also, the delay Keep reading
We depart, off to the small town of Sbeitla, where we’ll be staying because it’s next to some amazing Roman and Byzantine ruins of Sufetula. During the drive, we’ve got more time to do our own thing. And so it’s a van ride of us all listening to our audio books and music. After a Keep reading
Soooo, still committed to the alliterative titles, even if this one doesn’t really count. I mean, visually they both start with G, but the pronunciation kills the effect. Aw well. We had our Jeep ride out of the Sahara, and were then reunited with Ashraf and our van. And started the long drive to the Keep reading
I’m still hung-up on alliterative titles, as you can see. Typing these recaps now that I’ve returned home, as so much of our “down time” on the trip was while in the van driving from place to place, and I’m too prone to motion sickness to allow for writing while in a vehicle. I did Keep reading
Lovely morning in the Tataouine region. Off for a full day of exploring. First stop is Ksar Ouled Soltane. Built by the Amazigh people in the 15th century, it’s another fantastic example of their granary storage buildings. Always at the tops of mountains or cliffs (for good defense), with pleasing rounded windows and doors, and lovely Keep reading
(firstly, if you’re seeing this post without pictures, check back in a day or two. Uploading images without WiFi is tricky, so that may need to wait. The featured image was sunset over our hotel in Tataouine As I’m currently updating this, under a beach umbrella after having dipped my toes in the Mediterranean. Pretty Keep reading
Next we were off to visit El Jem. I hadn’t done any research about this ahead of time, so it was a real surprise. The bonus of a tour is that someone else is in charge of the itinerary ahead of time. And it also meant I didn’t want to do too much research in Keep reading
okay, that title is a bit of a stretch, but I enjoy the alliteration, so that’s what you get! *Laughs* but we did indeed see all of those things for our next two days in Tunisia (editor’s note: monkeys may have been of the plush variety). Next we headed off to Sousse, a busy port Keep reading
Okay, heading off to Carthage, which i’d mistakenly thought was just one big ruins site. Instead, because it was such a giant city back in the day, it is many many different excavated sites scattered throughout the modern Carthage neighborhood. And because we did some of our scheduled Tunis sight seeing yesterday, we were able Keep reading