Mackenzie and Matt left us in our Casablanca hotel room at 10pm last night, headed to the airport in a taxi for flights to Frankfurt, then Seattle. Presumably they’re home by now (8:30 Sunday night our time, 1:30 in the afternoon in Seattle).
The difficult experience of traffic and navigation in Casablanca yesterday led Cathryn to insist we get up early this morning to hit the road to Marrakesh before traffic became bad. Fortunately, the plan worked, and by 7am we were on the highway outside Casablanca, headed south to Marrakesh having had no problems. Four hours later we arrived at the Marrakesh airport and turned in our rental car a day early, as we don’t really need or want it here.
After checking into our hotel, and feeling a bit adventurous now that we’re familiar with Marrakesh, we decided to ride a public bus back to the medina rather than catch a cab. We guess our many years in the transit industry haven’t entirely left us! The bus ride was cheap (90 cents for the two of us), fast, and easy! We definitely appeared to be the only non-Moroccans on board.
We spent the afternoon back in the medina, wandering through the souks, buying snacks from a street vendor, watching the snake charmers, monkey handlers and other performers and vendors on the square, and having a cold drink on the 4th floor terrace of a restaurant overlooking the main town square. Very pleasant!
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