So...I am back now and in full work-mode.Before jumping right into it, let me first say a few things to those of you interested in our recent excursion. Ride a camel. If the opportunity ever presents itself, just say "Yes, of course, I would love to!"
Will I do it again? In the words of Whitney, Hell's to the NO! But I highly suggest doing it once. Sleeping in the Sahara is near impossible to express in words. I've lived in NYC for the past 20+ years and nothing I've ever experienced has pushed my 'comfort zone limits' like traveling through Africa and sleeping in the Sahara did in the span of two weeks.
I drank mint tea with the majority of the Berber population in the Atlas Mountains. I rode a donkey with a Berber man and was guided hand-in-and by a Berber woman through the Medina.
What a wonderful, eye-opening, unexpected journey this was.
I sit here writing my blog on my laptop while my new found young friend & guide, Rashid, is in the Medina balancing his time between football game, school and finding enough money from assisting tourists to their hotel at $.50 a pop to buy food for his family & hopefully save for a new Man U jersey.
This does not even compare to the women in the Atlas mountains carrying POUNDS upon POUNDS of supplies on their backs, up the hills to their homes for miles to feed & clothe their families and heat their homes.
I returned from this trip to find a leak in my new refrigerator. One that drips straight from my cookies & cream ice cream in the freezer through to the V8 juice on the top shelf and down to the crisper containing my very fresh & overpriced pineapple. I'm not thinking "Oh man, I have a leak in my refrigerator!!!"...right now, after my recent experience, I'm thinking "Oh man, I HAVE A REFRIGERATOR!!!"
back to the fashion presses tomorrow...
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