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Fez panorama while coming back from Borj Nord (North Fort)

Amidst the rooftops of Fes (Fez)

“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”― Bob Dylan As we approached our first sunset in the unique town of Fez, we scrambled to find a place to get a bird’s eye view of…

One of the purported 9,000 alleys of the old medina in Fes (Fez) Morocco

The 90,000 alleys of Morocco

Are there really 90,000 alleys in Morocco? Who really knows, but it feels like there are a whole lot more. The Fes (Fez) medina, or old town, is the largest car-free zones in the world, and is itself said to have…

A smattering of photographers on a cold wintry morning on Charles Bridge in Prague

A Day on Prague’s Charles Bridge

In the list of iconic places to photograph across Europe, the Charles Bridge in Prague clearly ranks in the Top 10. And justifiably so, since it is a sight that one cannot forget, with its statues of saints rising impressively…

Other-wordly sunset across the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro, seen from Church of our Lady of Remedy

A Case for Uber (or Lyft)

It was 4:00 pm in New York on a muggy August Friday afternoon in 2014. I had a flight to catch later that evening from JFK back to San Francisco after spending a week at our NYC offices. I was…