Cammie sitting cross-legged on the floor of an antique shop waiting for some mint tea.
Nothing like fresh fruit after a hot walk through the Medina.

I made it to Rabat Tuesday afternoon with absolutely no glitches in the plan. When I got to Rabat Cammie was even waiting at the airport door for me with a taxi driver she already knew. We went straight to her friend \jane's house and only got slightly lost. How deluxe! Since I'd been good about sleeping on the flights over we went straight to the Medina to check out the scene.

Morocco is everything I had hoped it would be so far... there's orange trees lining the roads like fireweed in Alaska, everything smells of spices, it's sweltering hot and full of palm trees. We almost immediately got sucked in to talking to one of the shopkeepers in an antique shop in the Medina. He was super nice and didn't even try very hard to sell us anything, he just wanted to practice his English. Wanting to practice our French, we were perfectly happy to oblige. We had a seat in his shop and drank hot mint tea. Very sugary.

We made our way out to the ocean and found ourselves in a huge cemetary. We made our way through the cemetary and across a busy street to the rocky seashore. no swimming today... we're saving the beach for later in our trip when we run out of steam.

Cammie walking into the Medina
Cammie with the Atlantic ocean in the background.

I liked the snails. The first snails I saw here were in pots of boiling water but the more I looked the more I noticed that they were crawling up everything. No wonder the street vendores are selling snail stew.

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