beard, anyone?
I’m back from holiday in London and Morocco. Had a great time; blog posts to come. Despite taking the day off work to recover (laundry, shopping, emails, etc.), I didn’t find time to sort through my photos today.
In the meantime, though, I’ll see if I can generate some conversation here by sharing some “before and after” photos of my beard. Beard, you say? Well, I couldn’t shave in the desert, so once we got to Marrakech, I looked like this:
I trimmed it a bit, ending up like this (taken this morning, back in Dublin):
I was tempted to keep the beard, but I decided that trimming it was going to turn out to be a lot of work. So I’m back to normal:
I know beards are trendy these days in the US (but not at all in Morocco!), and I’m always a bit contrarian about trends. Is it time for me to give in to the facial hair phenomenon?
January 4th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
I kind of like it. Perhaps worth a try.
January 5th, 2010 at 2:01 am
More impressively hirsute than I would have thought possible! You must have been quite a dashing figure in the desert. Were any caftans involved?
January 5th, 2010 at 10:10 am
I didn’t buy one, but one of my traveling companions bought a few. I’m sure there’s a picture of him in costume somewhere. There’s also the Berbers, who generally wore caftans (often with jeans and a mobile phone in their pocket).
January 5th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
You call that normal?
February 11th, 2010 at 2:37 am
I meant to respond to this and, of course, forgot. I like the beard. But then again I am biased – I have been growing mine out since August.
February 11th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Holy smokes! Pretty soon you’ll look like Homeless Dave!