Meeting Wolf of the Sea in Monopoli, Italy - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

How do you know you are traveling off the beaten path? I’d say when you see no one but a solo local person at a little town off of the Adriatic Sea.

Seeing that he was processing fish, probably caught on-site, we stopped. Many words tried to rush out in English. Facing the reality of language barrier, we chose silence.

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“Pesce rosso”, he said, eyes still on what his hands were working on.

”Si”. Judging from the obvious color of the fish, we replied.

Out of blue, he raise the red fish to his mouth.

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“Lupo di Mare”, he said.

Proud to know what lupo means in English, we quickly responded “Si si si si”. In hindsight, I’m not too sure who he was referring to as the lupo. What do you think?

Throughout our travels, we’ve appreciated a variety of landscapes (see my theory about People Are Landscape). It’s usually the experience with beautiful and/or interesting people that we still remember many years later.

Do you want to take a wild guess on what Monopoli means? Put your thought in the comment below.

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Can Blue Get Bluer in Chefchaouen, Morocco - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

After 10 days or so of drab scenery in Morocco, I couldn’t quite hold my excitement when colors finally entered my vision in north part of the country. I was happy to not just finally see green…

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… but also the lively colors in life:

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Further, I was delighted to meet someone whose brain may be on the same wavelength with me. The proof? As if the ubiquitous blue in this town is not enough, she wanted to make her house MORE blue. You may have known this about me, there can never be too much color in life. ;-)

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P.S., I just learned that the blue city just suffered forest fire due to extreme heat at the end of last month, which was the third major wildfire in August for Morocco. Whatever the reason may be for the city to be blue, we now know it’s not to keep it cool.

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Back to Nature in Morocco - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Tell me, what do you feel about the scene below:

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Now, hold the thought.

If I tell you that we started our Morocco trip in Marrakesh and what we saw in the next 10 days or so was either dirt or rock until we hit further north, would you have changed your thought? My heart let out a song of joy when my eyes met the scenery at the beginning of this post. I knew then how much green life and clear sky my heart was yearning for.

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I recently watched a 2012 documentary on “Regreening the Desert”. The desperate seek for shade from the inescapable sun and its heat in Morocco came to mind.

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It was forecasted to reach 91 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly 32.7 degrees Celsius) where I live yesterday, a temperature that’s known to be “normal” as far back as I know. And yet, California Independent System Operator (California ISO) has issued a Flex Alert urging Californians to reduce energy use to relieve grid stress, which was extended into today.

I don’t suppose I know the answer to our quest back in Morocco. Nor do I know whether the Sahara desert has always been there or that expansive. But I know we are dealing more and more on an intimate level with issues of power shortage, excessive heat and extensive drought. I know that City of Los Angeles is providing free trees to its residents. I also know that my parents have taken it upon themselves to be surrounded by trees.

If you haven’t, please take less than 50 minutes of your life and watch the documentary. If some of the concepts/ideas presented in it (back in 2012) is “revolutionary”, maybe more people ought to learn about them. And I’d love an opportunity to discuss what do you think we can start incorporating into our own property/lives.

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