Hell if I know where this is...

We started off in a town that I don't know the name of, and stopped off in a couple of places that I don't know the names of, so what can I tell you? I'm in Morocco...somewhere close to the Atlas Mountains, but other than that, I have no ideas...

...This is a bird...

...and a guy selling stuff...

...and Sharon from our group...she's from New Zealand!...

...and here is Cassandra sitting by the pool in her Muslim getup...

...and the rest are of the little town we are in that I have no idea what it's called...

...and the last one is a mountain we can see from our hotel...look at the wind coming off the top of it...YIKES!!!

Sahara 2

I was really looking forward to this part of the trip...camel ride out to a secluded, romantic oasis in the Sahara...snuggled into a luxury tent with my sweetheart...aaahhhhhh, this is what traveling should be! Hmmm, well not exactly. Camel ride cancelled because of high wind! Luxury tent in a secluded oasis...well, not exactly...More like a small tent city in the middle of the desert...but they had bathrooms...sort of. We walked out to one of the sand dunes...

Secluded tents...sort of, in a tent city style...

I got up early for the sunrise...

Then it was Cassandra on a camel first thing in the morning...

No camels for me, I already smell bad enough! Back in the van for a couple of hours, to some little town that still had rements of the original town after 300 years...

After that it was into a canyon with 400' walls, and only 100-150' wide...

Finally, on to our hotel..

Nice place, but these women were hiding next to the driveway...

...and the town looks kind of like this...

It's the morning of the next day, and the group is off on a 10km walk...I stayed behind to do this, and get a massage, and a bottle of wine...and maybe a nap....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The Sahara

It was a long day in the van today...but it was really nice for our last day in Fes. We drove out into the Sahara, and guess what?...sun, heat, desert kind of stuff?...nope, a little rain, cold, and a rather impressive dust storm! The wind was so strong, I have internal organs that are coated in dust! Here's what it looked like from inside the van...

Out the side window...

..Just to keep it in the mix...RAIN! So we have been on the road for 8 days, rain and snow 7 of them! Who ever said "Go to Morocco for the snow, and the rain"...NOBODY EVER SAID THAT!!! I know...bitch, bitch, bitch. Anyway, we spend long horus in the van, and I only have 4 brain cells devoted to where we are, and what day it is! I think...This is our fancy hotel from 2 days ago.

Sunset over the Sahara...

...and the moon...

...the we stopped in some little town right up against the snowy mountains...

Here are a bunch of pics...don't ask me where, or when...

That doesn't even include the stuff from today...another 6 hour ride in the van, but I will do that tomorrow...time for WINE!!!