How quickly we adjust...what was novel a week ago is now old school. Putting up a tent, taking it down, stuffing it in a bag several sizes too small (regardless of what the manufacturer says), it's all run of the mill now, the nomadic life is passe. Other things retain the power to surprise, the absolutely gorgeous landscape of Morocco, especially the Atlas montains are deserving of praise: hard, dry and cold....life here is unrelenting for the inhabitants. Each tiny cultivated plot clings to the edge of a slow running waterway, hard won fertility. In other places dried up streams are bordered by abandoned terraces like a dusty brown necklace. The people are busy trying to survive, olives and dates are essential parts of their daily diet. Bread is made from home grown and ground wheat.
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