0214. End of the Northeast Morocco tour... (Mor 062--new)
Saka provided me with a beautiful mountain view, a delicious (but overpriced) tagine, another enthusiastic cafe audience and some very peculiar ruins, including an aqueduct that looked distinctly Romanesque... could it be possible? I've tried to google Saka ruins with no success...
Saka... very small, yet somehow a fitting ending to this very intense 11 day tour...
On the bus down to Guercif and then the overnight bus to Casablanca I felt a bit overwhelmed as I tried to let sink in all that I'd experience over these last few days...
...For the first time, I feel like I've really thoroughly experienced and parkbenched a region. I can now confidently say that I've done the Taza-Oujda-Nador triangle justice... I've hiked the mountains, wandered the medinas, visited the villages--brought my music to 27 of its cities and towns.
Maybe it's not as glamorous as a 1 month 15 country tour of eastern Europe or a lightning ride around South America--but it's very satisfying in a deeper way...
What's next? Maybe the Tanger-Fes-Khenifra triangle? The Oujda-Figuig-Errachidia triangle? A village by village tour of northern France? A bicycle tour of The Netherlands? Damn! There's still a lot of world out there for me to parkbench and experience--and I'm very eager to go out there and do it...
But for right now, I need to head home, get some rest, learn some more songs, and of course--do the music video of Rchida that I promised...
