Drive get lost day to fes.

Well, we are alive. 2 we have a hotel to sleep in tonight after 8 hours of hellish driving through the beautiful mountains of Africa. Everyone here is out to make some money. Where to start:
Woke up about nine thirty went downstairs to eat our complimentary breakfast to find out it wasn't included. Then we packed our bags loaded them in the car and started looking for breakfast. Got roped into the first place and had cuscus biscuit things with a platter of peanut butter honey apricot jam and olives served with orange juice and coffee. Then we walked around the town including stops at various little shops and cute blue pathways meandering through te town. Then we drove off with fez and midelt on our plan. Tried following google maps. But then the roads just got worse and worse until there were spots where the pavements were gone and it was dirt. And bumps. So we continued too far. And about three hours later got to a t with the name of the city that was on our map. So we took that. Drove another hour or so back up to the main road through an extremely ghetto town of dirt roads continued up through the cloud layer with winding turns and steep drop offs gorgeous sights and we continued and continued until we found the southern road towards fez. About 6 hours later of driving which seemed to be getting us nowhere we were finally on the map again and continued. Poor matt had to pass people on the one lane roads and try to keep my spirits high as the fate of our camel trek kept dwindling. Sure enough we pulled into a truck stop with wifi called our camel trek guide and asked if we could do the trek two nights from now and he agreed. We canceled our reservation in midelt and booked what looked like a seenr place in fez. Except we never found it. Asked a parking attendant who for 100 Durham would bring us there. Wrong place. Then another guy who spoke a little better English and for nothing would bring us. But then he got in the car and said that place is scary stay at this other place for 40$ With breakfast. By this point we were driving around for an hour and a half. And has not eaten since breakfast and just wanted to eat and sleep. So we paid for the room paid the dude off and had a hamburger from the next shop and are calling it a night. Forget big cities. Plan now: drive to midelt sleep. Drive to merzouga and do the camel trek into the desert. Then drive to Marrkesh. Find a decent city to sleep in. Then drive to Casablanca and fly home on 10/6. A lot to do in a few days. We are going to need a vacation from our vacation. But. We made it to africa! Again, we are safe and going to sleep.
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