I’m posting this last picture of the gallery sort of as a joke, but it does reflect the reality of my introduction to Morocco. We had organized this trip through a tour operator for various reasons; Tim had made the flight reservations, and I never looked at flight times, etc. Usually I’m pretty up on geography, but my thinking was this: Morocco is in North Africa, Saudi Arabia is right across the Red Sea from Egypt, also in North Africa; therefore, it should be a short flight to Casablanca. I was floored when I looked at the map in the plane, indicating a seven-hour flight! I hadn’t realized that Morocco was on the Atlantic Ocean, and that we had to cross the entire African continent, at almost its widest point, to get there. So much for my geography skills.

I should mention that the trip took even longer than it should have because we had to avoid Libya, so went up to Malta and back down. Then, Saudia Airlines wasn't aware that Morocco was on daylight saving time, so our arrival time was off by an hour...

Anyway, I am finally finishing this Morocco gallery, which has turned out to be a four-month project. I’d like to thank everybody for taking the trip with me and for all the interest shown in my adventures there. It’s a place I’d go back to at the drop of a hat, and since our trip to Tunisia has been put on hold for the foreseeable future, we just might do that later in the year.

The famous bar at Rick’s Café, posted earlier: