The lovely town of Essaouira will be one of our last cities in Morocco.
Today was monumental for a few reasons. Firstly, we have successfully reached 100 days traveling with people who had been little more than strangers. Secondly, today we made the decision to end our time here and move on to Europe.
David had inquired this morning whether we considered where we will get off. Bobby and I started chatting about it while strolling around Essaouira and kicked around a few ideas, one of which was to go and see my grandmother. We had heard from my mother that she had recently been hospitalized but I wanted to get to an internet café first and check with everyone to make sure it was alright. We found an internet café that had Skype on it and we made all of the calls and found out it was good timing for everyone so we went ahead and booked tickets.
So it is official now, we are flying to Paris this Saturday and will be there at 2 pm in the afternoon. We will stay with Pierre-Philippe and Emanuelle and Tuesday we will fly to Riga and then to Vilnius. It all happened so fast, I don’t know what I think about it. I feel a bit unprepared but that is how a lot of things in life seem to come about. My other main concern is that we are going to Eastern Europe during winter and we haven’t got winter clothes. Strolling around today, we fortuitously came across mittens, long johns and some ridiculously cheap sweaters at the supermarket. It was just meant to be this way I suppose.
Oh, another main event that marked this day is that on this 100th day, we finished our 1,000 sheet roll of toilet paper! Everything really seemed to work out well, now we are just going to enjoy our last two days in Morocco!
Whoa…!
Five sheets of TP per person, per day.
Gives new meaning to the phrase, “Going Green.”