We had a fun farewell dinner with the Jones group. It was off site at another 'palace' restaurant. I wore my new red turban and charged people 5 dirham to take my picture. Only one paid. The bellmen at the hotel were very impressed and high fived me out the door.
The host about crapped, but insisted he get a picture of me and his wife. He didn't pay, but bought dinner the night before, so I figure it was a wash.
Sat with the NC kids again and the nuke folks. Back home by 10
We are in Zagorta tonight, which is a long ways away from everything except Zagorta. We were picked up at 8:00 a.m. by Fethad as promised. Nice guy in his late 40's who likes to speak with both hands and spray. He uses 'you know' at least twice per sentence, but I'm trying to be patient.
He explained our trip to us on the way and we begged to differ that we were going to Erg Chigaga, not Erg Chebbi. After numerous cell phone calls and looking at our 'program' he decided to take us to Erg Chigaga. That is a more remote desert in the south of Morocco.
Over the high Atlas Mountains which was the Lewiston grade times 10. Fethad was into movies and especially those shot in Morocco. No thanks, we don't need to see the studio. We pulled into our 2.4 star hotel at 6 and checked into our 10 x 12 room on the second floor overlooking the pool and palms.
The pool is COLD, the palms are cool. We are in the middle of a 200 km palm grove that follows a river. Had a nice chicken and beef kabob dinner with a lovely tomato salad that Melissa and Jason would have LOVED. [Happy birthday Mags!!] Managed to sneak in some wine, the old water bottle in the pocket trick.
Our room is decent and we are expecting a quiet night until we figured we are right above the bar. There were some French and Germans partying on, but the just went in for dinner so if we can fall asleep before the return to the bar, we'll be fine.
Very interesting geology along the route.
Tomorrow we leave at 10 for the desert.
Probably no more communication for a couple days as I doubt they will have wifi in the desert!
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