So now we know why the other group couldn’t get through the mountains. It is snowy and icy. The sanding crews are two guys in the back of a large truck of sand. They then use a spade to pick up a shovel full and throw it out the back of the truck every few feet as the truck slowly moves down the road. We just arrived at a place where the road is closed. Our guide says we will wait 1-2 hours for the road to be open as the crews are working. Oh we have just ...

Yesterday we spent the day touring around fez. It was quite interesting and a bit smelly here and there. We went up to a fort on a hill overlooking the city. We then walked into the Medina or the oldest parts of town. There was definitely no car access. There was just hand carts and mules to move goods around the Medina. Inside the Medina we looked at a madrasa (old quranic school), hand weavers business, a tannery, a couple mosques and towers from the outside,...

This is the Bear coming to you live from our tent in the Sahara desert along the Algerian border. I had heard that the Sahara desert is one of the hottest places on earth. It does not seem that way tonight. It feels quite cold in our beautiful private tent. We do have lots of blankets though. This means I will also gets lots of cuddles tonight which makes me happy. Due to lack of sufficient heating I have woke up the last two nights with someone else on my side...

We started the day in Casablanca. We left in our minibus at 8am. It is quite cozy in our two seats. It was a long 3.5 hr drive to Volubilis. Volubilis is a Roman ruin site. It is basically a whole city. It is as far south as the Roman’s got. It was very cool. There were amazing mosaic floors still in quite a few of the buildings. There was even huge stork nest with two storks on top of one of the columns. We then went to lunch at a small village where the w...

Morrocan pastilla for supper. Chicken cinnamon dryish meat pie. Yummy!!!