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“The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination.”—Paul Brenner (Nelson DeMille’s book, Up Country)

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

24 Hours Later


Awoke feeling much better. My body is free of aches for the first time
in three days; and although my stomach is tender, I think that I can
leave my room today.

Walked to train station to check schedule. This was a test run for
leaving our room. Okay so far! Our friend living in Maroc refers to
the 80% solution for how things are done. The train station is a
perfect example of 80%. It is modern and quite opulant; but the johns
must be flushed by sloshing a pail of water into the bowl. Yes, there
is running water in the station, but not for the johns.

One more note about the toilets; a woman attendant sloshes the men's
side while each woman has the job of sloshing her own john. We discovered this by
sharing with each other how odd that a modern building had no
flushable johns.  Is this 50%?

Checked out the goverment controled art cooperatives and found many
lovely things which we can live without, even the rugs. Ah, but they
are very nice!

A light rain encourages us to take refuge in our room until evening
dinner. I am hoping to be able to keep it. Tonight is omellettes!

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