On the Way to Morocco

It is now Sunday afternoon and we are on our way to Casablanca, Morocco.  After leaving Cadiz at around 8pm-ish, they broadcast the day’s announcements and plans/schedule for our day at sea.  They said, and this is pretty much verbatim, “The captain has informed us that we are going to be encountering some seasonal weather, so before you go to bed you should secure all your valuables and loose items throughout your cabin.”  (I fortunately haven’t had any sea-sickness problems at all yet, so I wasn’t too worried, but it was kind of funny when we heard it at dinner and everyone looked at each other and laughed.) So, having not slept more than a few hours all of our nights in Spain, I was ready to pass out by 10pm.  I took a couple Dramamines before putting a DVD on and was quickly asleep until about noon today.  When I woke up, we were stopped right alongside Gibraltar with an enormous refueling ship alongside our ship with huge hoses attached to us giving us fuel.  It was pretty rocky during the night, but nothing too bad.  We fortunately don’t have any classes today, only a couple meetings about our time in Morocco. 

Now, on to my plans for Morocco.  We will be arriving tomorrow morning and leave Thursday night.  As of now, me and a few people are planning on spending a couple days in Marrakesh and hopefully some time in Fez.  We’ve learned that it is very easy to travel around by train, although it’s at least 3 hours per train ride between each city.

I will put up a detailed post of our stay in Spain in a little while.