The Trip of a Lifetime: May 12 and 13, 2022 - Granada to Algeciras to Casablanca

May 13, 2022: Captain’s log: stardate 26: Casablanca

We said goodbye to the car this morning and boarded a ferry for Morocco. Since the car was parked a lot more than we drove it, as well as it not being much fun to drive in cities, we are probably going to stick to buses and trains. I wasn’t going to drive here anyway, but I won’t when we get back to Europe. We didn’t need the COVID-19 test to come here after all. No one asked for it or our vaccine cards. It’s a small sample based on where we’ve been the last few weeks, but the world is open. The biggest fear we have is that we won’t be able to get back into the US, because we are entering in NYC.

The ferry ride was fun. We sailed from Algeciras to Tangier. We were in the same area as a couple weeks ago on the cruise. And we sailed past where we stayed last night. From Tangier we caught a train to Casablanca. Traffic here is crazy. Glad I’m not driving.

In late 2001 and early 2002 I spent six months studying French for our honeymoon. I studied hard, but don’t hav a knack for languages, so I only could talk about basic things. Then I did the same in 2006 fort Roz’s birthday (July 14) trip to Paris. I became conversant. Then we moved to Miami in 2006 and I cheated on French with Spanish, so French left me. We are here enough that I am going to try and win her back.

mañana