MOROCCO
(Images courtesy of Jim Miller,
Clemson University, South Carolina.)

Quotes are by Tomas from "The Falcon Room."

"June in Marrakesh. The heat of midday floated low over the rose-colored city, its edges moving and shifting and shrinking and growing; making me slightly queasy just to look at it from above."

"Don’t you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh express! I could sense what the musicians David Crosby or Graham Nash must have felt on arriving in the “pink city,” its rose-colored earth and stucco walls rising ahead of us; exotic Marrakesh! ¡Tomás, ya llegaste!—you’ve arrived! The little Spanish boy from Brooklyn was a world traveler."

"The Koutoubia Mosque, built over 800 years ago, and the central square, Djemaa el Fna...I could imagine [Hassad] striding through that square filled with musicians and dancers, snake charmers and story tellers; he would be meeting old friends, talking, laughing, making new ones, immediately commanding everyone’s attention and attracting their desire."

".[Jimi] Hendrix himself wrote 'Castles Made of Sand' on the coast near Essaouira, stoned out and watching the mud brick kasbahs 'slide into the sea, eventually.'”

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"We would continue up the northwest Moroccan coast to the capital city Rabat, then north almost to Tangier, but first cutting east to Tetouan and finally north again to Ceuta, where we would get the car ferry to Spain."

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