Portland, Oregon blogger Michael Totten is rather far from home right now:
"I am slightly amazed I can blog at all from where I am. My hotel is 100 feet from the edge of the Grand Erg Oriental, one of the two great sand seas of the Sahara. Out my hotel window are camels and dunes to the horizon. Ohmygod is it HOT here, so hot you have no idea. Of course I knew North Africa would be toasty in July, but this place feels like the blast furnace planet Crematoria in The Chronicles of Riddick."
Here's Roman Africa, the article that inspired his trip. Michael promises more blogging to come, though apparently his planned trip to Libya fell though.
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