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Morocco, the Journey Begins Marrakech and Casablanca, February 2026

   My daughters were promised a trip for their 40th birthday.  This is Chava's trip. After we came up with a rough sketch of where and when, we settled on a Tour of Morrocco with GAdventures .  We had a limited time for travel, and organizing the logistics of such an unknown place was a bit daunting. But the non booked trip was still daunting. Chava did most of the layout of the trip because having us work at cross purpose seemed to be unwise. My usual disclaimers apologizing my lack of skill formatting in Blogger, and that the photos are my own and can be seen in better detail without my narrative by clicking on any of them to get the slide show.  Our epic journey began with a flight to Marrakesh. The tour starts in Casablanca. So we had to deal with the first day on our own  and getting a train to Casablanca. And Chava choose brilliantly. This is not just booking a hotel. This was finding a porthole into a different reality. Once we had settled on the ...
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Pottery in Fes, February 2026

I haven’t done much posting lately. I know I have said this before, and I will likely say it again. Life has a habit of getting in the way of my plans. I am cleaning up my photo pile and I am so excited about all of the photos. I have decided to give you a small bit of my Moroccan expedition with Chava. Our G-Adventure tour took us to several co-op factories.  Doofus that I am I have failed to write down the name of this one. I am hoping one of my fellow tour-mates can refresh my memory so I can add it here. This post is mostly a photo dump, with a some small comments. A more extensive discussion will be in the next post. Most of the photos are raw, without editing. Lodema, this whole post is dedicated to you, and to all of my artisan friends. All photos are my own. Taken on a Samsung. I encourage you to enlarge the photos by clicking on them. It will give you a slide show, without the comments. All of this is done on a kick wheel This is the kiln. Pottery is stacked inside a ...