EDIT: (17 Dec 2006): Many of the PHOTOS in this section will be moved shortly. The TEXT and stories will stay here, as well as the photos posted locally on this server.

For the linked galleries that have moved, you’ll be able to find the replacement galleries under the “spain + moroc” section at my f8fotos website.Orig post is below:

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I may post 1-2 more “highlights” galleries later, but for now, this is it for the photodocumentation of our trip. Enjoy!!

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Rabat, Casablanca and Home (Gallery 11)
Fes, Meknes, Rabat (Gallery 10)

Okay … it’s 2:15 am, and after 24-hours of continuous travel, from Casablanca to Irvine, I’m home. Here are a few random thoughts that you might enjoy:

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I’m 34,000 feet up. It’s -72 degrees F outside. And we’re somewhere
above Greenland, with 3901 miles to go until we reach home. We’ve been
watching the same sunset for literally 3 hours now … in fact, I think
as we go north the sky is actually getting brighter right now! I look
down and see an endless eternity of ice that faces up into a nice pink
sunset color, which darkens with clouds, then lightens back to the blue
sky. The view is stunning, and the fact that Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, just thought you’d like to know that I’m in Casablanca and headed home first thing in the morning via Air France. I owe an update on today, but I just posted 2 pages of pictures and 1-2 back posts. Check out the new pix (below), and I’ll see you soon!!

Here’s all the pix … I don’t know how to make it looks nice, but at least it’s in one place.

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The Fes Medina (Gallery 09)
Fes 2 (Gallery 08)

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Morocco Gala Dinner and Fes 1 (Gallery 07)
Morocco 4×4 trip (Gallery 06)

Marrakech, Morocco

Seville, Tangier, Marrakech

Seville & Cordoba, Spain

Granada, Spain

Barcelona, Spain

We get going around 9 am, after a decent hotel breakfast, and the
first nearly 8 hour night of sleep in what feels like months. We head
straight for a walking tour of the medina, which is incredible. The
medina in Fes comprises of something crazy, like 50,000 different
shops. There are shops as small as… Read the rest of this entry »

Getting up in the 4 o’clock hour of the morning is just wrong. It’s
even more wrong when you go to bed after 1 am and have been drinking (a
very little, but still…). But we did, and I hurried to finish packing
while the Marks checked us out of our hotel room. We got to the
Marrakech airport, where I was instantly amused (terrified?) that the
machine-gun toting … Read the rest of this entry »

Dar Soukkar — I think that’s what it’s called — is a 500 year-old
sugar plantation. During it’s peak sugar had the same value as marble,
and they would trade it, pound for pound. On our final university
night, we arrived at this former plantation via a 200+ foot-long
carpeted walkway leading through… Read the rest of this entry »

Well, after staying out until 4am, getting up for the general session
at 9am wasn’t so easy. I (barely) made it to the 10:45 session, and
heard Cameron of 1-800-Got-Junk again… amazing presentation, I
learned a lot. From there we jumped in a 4×4 and… Read the rest of this entry »

University continued Friday morning, with a keynote by Gary Hoover.
Gary founded (and later sold) Hoovers (www.hoovers.com), one of the
premiere information sources on companies. He’s a stunningly brilliant
futurist, but he talks in everyday terms, and makes things so
common-sensical that it’s hard not to believe what he tells you will
happen in 20 years. (Much of what he foresees … Read the rest of this entry »