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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)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Midelt

French plumbing for jon bons is not up to British standards. One
Yankee dump and the entire hotel's plumbing stopped working! How
embarrassing, it is such a nice little 8 room hotel. Meanwhile, my
quads are getting strong from daily use of a squat john.

We got a much longer look at the snow capped mountains as we left
Midelt. We stopped for lunch and outside our bus window is the
butcher's shop. They skin the animals leaving either the tail or the
head for animal identification by the customer.

The bus took us though twisting mountain roads. We passed a recently over turned
oil tanker along the way. At one point we were in a dense pine
forest. Along the road we spied monkeys. They looked like green rocks
until they moved.

Azrou looks like a Swiss town with all of it's chalet looking houses.
Very prosperous town. Next town of Irfene is equally prospering. The
King has built a center for Islam, Jewish, and Christian faiths.

In Fez we are met by Karem who takes us to his riad. Such a beautiful place.
As I write this, his son is saying his evening prayers in the next room.

At 7 p.m. a person came to take us to dinner and then return us once we were
finished.  Our meal was served on the terrace roof top. Again, way too much food!

Arrived safely back at our riad.  Could not have done it without our guide.
Inshallah!

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