Reason 404 Why I Love Morocco: I can sit in a crowded taxi with my arm around a strange man and his hand on my knee without all the Western fears of male/male intimacy.
Life
Culture, Life, Peace Corps, Photography, Travel
Official Peace Corps Volunteers
by Thomas Stanley • • 2 Comments
After nearly three long months, we’re finally through the training process. We’re official Peace Corps volunteers! The swearing in ceremony was lovely. It’s hard to believe I won’t be around these lovely folks again for some time.
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Reason 604 Why I Love Morocco: A man can look definitively masculine despite wearing what the West might see as a dress.
Awareness, Culture, History, Life, Peace Corps, Photography, Travel
Am I A Tourist?
by Thomas Stanley • • 2 Comments
Am I a tourist? What makes a tourist a tourist? How long must one live in a place to not be a tourist? Is it merely a state of mind, or something more substantial? If I wasn’t born in a particular place, will I forever be a tourist there? I have done my fair share of…
Awareness, Life, Nature, Observations, Peace Corps, Relationships, Travel
Elemental Living
by Thomas Stanley • • 2 Comments
Being in a new environment, one that often challenges my previous ways of living and understanding of my life, I was trying to find a way to frame my thinking in an effort to understand where and why I struggle. To that end, I’ve decided to harken back to traditional symbolic systems to see what…
Culture, History, Life, Peace Corps, Photography, Travel
Zwina Medina (Not to be confused with Funky Cold Medina)
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Life, Odd, Peace Corps, Relationships, Travel
Statistics
by Thomas Stanley • • 2 Comments
I was poking around the background of our blog/website and started looking at statistics. It was amazing to see we’ve had more than 7,000 views and more than 2,600 unique visitors since we began this project back in September, 2014. Plus, we totally rocked it on July 18th, apparently. (Click the images to see a…
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Reason 531 Why I Love Morocco: Midnight rides through the desert on a darkened bus enables an incredible view of the stars and moon without clouds or light pollution.
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Reason 3,333 Why I Love Morocco: Previously neglected foods are now main staples. i have eaten, or drank, more dates, olives, watermelon, oranges, eggs, fish, okra, tea, wine, couscous, honey, mint, and mutton in the last 5 years here than I did the whole 45 years before coming.
Culture, Europe, Food, Life, Photography, Relationships, Travel
Albufeira
by Thomas Stanley • • 0 Comments
We stayed in a most lovely seaside town when we went to Portugal, called Albufeira! Although the town center was quite touristic (catering to mainly British tourists from what we saw), outside of this area the town was charming and picturesque. The beach was incredible, too–the sand is actually finely crushed shells which make it a lovely color and…
