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Eve and I slept late today. The bed is real comfortable and we just didn't want to get up yet.
We laid there and talked about what to do today, this was going to be our last full day in Morocco. We miss the kids, it going be nice to get back home to see them. I hope they didn't give Dorothy a difficult time; but I guess we'll find that out soon enough. The shower this morning is good, hot water from start to finish. We all went over to the dining hall to have coffee; it wasn't open yet so we drove into town get one. We found a pizzaria, how about that; this was the first Italian restaurant we've seen since we got to Morocco. We went in for a coffee and pizza breakfast. The coffee was okay, but the pizza really sucked. We each had one small piece, and that was more than enough; they sure don't know how to make pizza here. We finished chocking down the last mouthful then hit the road. Took a short drive around town then headed back to the bungalow. We sat around for awhile and talked about what to do today, smoked a few joints and decided we were going to cook a nice big spaghetti dinner tonight. As this was going to be our last meal in Morocco as a group and we felt it needed to be special. Us guys headed out to the Medina on the hunt for spaghetti fixings. Went to a vegetable market to get tomatoes onions and garlic, that was easy. Off to a meat market to look for something that resembled ground beef. What we found looked like it might be beef, although it could have been anything with four legs, but who knows? and we didn't ask either. As long as it wasn't bugs and shit, we didn't care, we didn't question. Off to look for some pasta, found that easy enough. Now we need spices, salt, pepper and oregano in particular. The spice market vendors had a huge selection, they probably had every spice you could think of. We zoned in on a couple of guys, when we asked for oregano they just laughed, we didn't know what was so funny; but each time we said oregano they would laugh. Obviously oregano means something quite different in Arabic than the name of a spice. But we couldn't make them understand what we wanted without making them laugh. One of the guys motioned for us to step up into the wagon and have a look for ourselves. This turned out to be very helpful. We had been in the spice wagon for a couple of minutes when a few other vendors saw us rummaging through the spices and were curious, so now they've come over to talk to their buddies and find out what's going on. Up in the wagon we moved through the barrels and bags looking in, and sniffing their contents. Every time we said oregano all the vendors would laugh. We would liked to have know if oregano was actually a real word in Arabic, or if it was maybe the equivalent of blah blah blah. We never did find out what it meant. There was now about four or five, or maybe even six guys hanging around, and this has now turned into quite the little comedy show, and we're having a total blast with it. Of course were really high and having fun with the comedy thing, so now we're beefing up the improv routine by adding a few animated gestures in order to get some extra humor mileage out of the experience, it was all good. They were all really loving it man, and howling with laughter. We got some salt and pepper, and we finally found the oregano; they called it something we couldn't even pronounce, at least that's what I think they were telling us. As we were about to leave they all shook our hand and patted us on the back, and were still laughing their ass off, they were a very happy crew, and a good audience as well. The whole episode was such a blast. We had all made each others day. Now were off to get a couple of big hunks of bread and a some bottles of Meknes wine. Now it's back to the compound to start preparing dinner. Everyone pitched in with the prep work. Al and I will be doing the cooking. We had to cook everything in stages because we only had one byrner so it was going to take quite awhile. But this was going to be an awesome dinner man. While we were doing everything required in getting organized for dinner, we smoked joints and drank wine, laughed about all the fun we've had together, talked about all of the places we had been, things we had seen and some of the crazy fucked up shit that we did. This has turned out to be another one of those over the top fantastic days..... I don't know how many hours have gone by since we started making dinner, but It was finally cooked and ready to eat, and we were all hungry as bears. Well, it turned out to be the "greatest spaghetti dinner of all time", that's what we thought anyhow. It was absolutely delicious and none of us were disappointed. We loved it and ate every bit of it, and of course, drank all the wine, and smoked more joints. We were all so totally wrecked from lots of wine and joints, and fully satisfied with a great dinner. Today has been such a holy fuck-WOW day; we couldn't have asked for anything better. We took a long final walk along the shoreline, talked more about what a wonderful time we've all had. It's been quite the adventure to say the least. Although there had been many great days and events throughout our month in Morocco, some of them were absolute stand outs. For me, the number one thing has to be riding "The Marrakesh Express"; that's a given. Then of course “the Gigantic Valley” that moved me so deeply, it ranks very high on the scale, as did the drive of our lives on the 'road of impending doom', that I really thought was going to be the last day of our lives; very scary and absolutely memorable. And today, an afternoon of "the spice wagon improv players animated comedy show", and to top it all off, "the greatest spaghetti dinner of all time”. And by any measure, the prize for the weirdest encounter goes to the two not very bright giant cops; that one wasn't fun so much, at least not initially, but in the end it turned out okay, but it was scary as fuck for a while, but still very exciting and unforgettable; and really funny as hell. [but only after the fact] For me they have all been major highlight days, ones that I’ll always remember.... What incredible experiences they have all been. Well, its getting quite late now, we're tired. We've got a really big day ahead of us tomorrow; it's time to go to bed. Page #18 Page links 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 |
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Sale' waterfront
meat, we didn't want to ask what it was when it was alive
spice market
fresh vegetables for dinner
Morocco has the best breads anywhere
wine from Meknes,
Morocco was the first Arab country to export wine 
double zero Hashish
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