That expertise has found its way onto the page. I am the author of several Moon Travel Guides titles, including Moon Seville & Andalusia and Moon Grand European Journeys — and, most relevantly for you, Moon Morocco, now in its brand-new 4th edition, out July 28, 2026. Writing these guides means translating hard-won, on-the-ground expertise into something entertaining and genuinely useful — the kind of insight you simply can’t get from a desk. I’ve been fortunate that many of my own photographs grace the pages of these full-color guides as well.

In 2009 I moved from San Francisco to Morocco and have been on this side of the Atlantic ever since. After two years working as an editor for a wire service in the Bay Area — minimal vacation, that relentless cost of living — I was ready for a change. I started applying to teaching jobs anywhere and everywhere, including a small university tucked into the folds of the Middle Atlas Mountains that I had never heard of in a country I had never visited. I took the job. When my plane landed, all of my luggage was lost. I spent my first two weeks in Morocco in the middle of Ramadan, shopping in the local markets for food, clothing, and basic necessities without speaking a word of the local language. It was an unexpected, total immersion — and I fell completely in love with the country.

For the next decade, Morocco became my classroom as much as my home. My first six years were spent in Ifrane, a small, storybook mountain town in the Middle Atlas, teaching literature and composition at Al Akhawayn University. I traveled every corner of the country during those years — from the date groves of the Sahara to the fishing villages along the Atlantic Coast, from the labyrinthine medina of Fez to the windswept beaches of Essaouira. Along the way I picked up a bit of the language, made lifelong friends, and married my wife, a Tanjaioua — a woman of Tangier. In 2019 we moved north to Tangier, the city that has been our home ever since, a place where Africa and Europe eye each other across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar and the whole world feels within reach.