Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Leaving the desert (Becky)

Our drive home from the trip was chaotic, since the bad weather (storming again) had filled in riverbeds, created huge puddles , and caused several rockslides into the road. Our driver got into a road rage battle with the driver of a lunch meat and vegetable truck that almost took us off the road when passing us. Then we passed him, narrowly avoiding a collision, and he passed us, etc, until one of the women in our car yelled at him in a rapid mix of French and Arabic to stop endangering us all.

Otherwise, it was a pretty uneventful day. We drove for 10+ hours and got back late, forcing us to look for our new hotel in Marrakesh in the dark. We had to ask for directions from a kid who, of course, demanded money when we arrived. Arg!

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