All posts by sundanzz

undulating in the air

amtoudi, not mentioned in any history books and far off the beaten track, twenty ton of vehicles travel as high on curvy skinny routes as they could, having their drivers venture out hiking onto little traveled paths, to well preserved old granaries that served as a hiding and battling ground for rival tribes. with stunning views from below and above, baffled, they jumped in some  natural pools, hidden between perfectly shaped rocks, smoothed by millions of years of cascading water …. a cooling welcome to their heated bodies and overnighty on a dried river bed.



c’est dengue

when you are sick to the core, it is time to go home. dengue has it’s incubation period and out of nowhere it hits hard. anything could have happened, traveling the way we did … i dealt with long drives, desert storm, cold and heat, foreign food and drinks, assholes, beggars, ghosts, nice and difficult people, have seen lots of beauty and some ugliness … then some little beast, as tiny as a needle-head bites you and shoots up your body temperature up to 41 degrees and brings you to your knees and hospital. morocco … you have been quite an experience.

rising to the dead

and earths broken skin. an eerie evening filled with beautiful sounds of invisible birds, motor tunes of cars that weren’t there and alarming footsteps in the middle of the night had us geared up and armed with what our needed defenses offered. in the silence of another sunny day, a welcome meditation spot on a nearby hill developed on approach to a graveyard, further down a corpse of a lamb, near the truck. good bye death valley, you were truly interesting. 



panosaharama

the ever changing topography and surface conditions on our 400 kilometer off-road ride kept us in awe and constant focus for vehicle and strained backs. driving in rich prairie sprinkled with grazing camels, gliding through soft desert dunes, banging on hard rubble paths, catapulting us from our seats to the truck’s ceiling, and racing through the vastness of the dry salt river lac d’irici, had us pan the cameras 360. 



(un)spoiled

when silence becomes your favorite tune, starry skies and waxing crescent your light, warm desert sand your suit, the sun your blanket, solitude your best companion, warm beer your most delicious drink, and a day you don’t want to end

عرق الشبي

the massive dunes of erg chebbi were the most stunning highlight so far. after sandstorm, rainfall and freezing conditions, (snow just 100km away) morocco has never seen, we dove gently into the dunes at sunrise, took our time in the peace and quiet to take in each mount, each shadow, color play with the light and sun. temperatures are rising and we are happy to be free of thick clothing, masks, and the dunes and sand that found its way into the truck and into every crevice of our bodies.

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