Moroccan Dreams - Marrakech

you can see the train and the landscape - BORING...
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It’s so funny how things I could do with no question of confidence, or self doubt I now don’t know how to do or I question if I’m going the right way, following the directions correctly, going to end up where I need to… whatever.  I feel like a child without parents.  In a way it’s fascinating and wonderfilled with a sort of raw excitement mixed with a mild fear of failure.  I’m not seeing things for the “first time” and yet I am – so it’s pretty cool.  I hate that I am very grateful for my Ipod and my laptop – I wish I could be happy really “roughing it” as so many world travelers do every day – but I think I would be more lonely than I am and having much less fun with myself… So praise Mohammed for Macintosh!!

Oh how I love a real bed
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Boarded train to Marrakech and didn’t understand at first why everyone was rushing and cutting in front to get on, but quickly realized that a seat in 2nd class does not necessarily mean you will be sitting down.  After walking thru the first few cars banging my gigantic, lead filled bags into everyone crammed in the walk way, I begged a very full car of 5 veiled women if I could please squeeze in.  They reluctantly agreed and kind of not really made room.  Then a mother and little girl asked to do the same.  So for about 2 hours of the 3.5 hour journey 6 muslim women, the little girl and myself shared a car that would comfortably seat 4.  The little girl and I shared my ipod and drew fluers back and forth… I didn’t even notice how totally uncomfortable it really was until 4 of them left and I had room to take my bags off my lap.   The landscape is really quite barren with the occasional field of something brown and a man laying down in a handmade childlike fort in the dirt.  Donkeys are in abundance and very heavily weighed down with a small apartments worth of “stuff” looking starving and apologetic.

Did someone order a satellite? View from hotel
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Ok - just got to my hotel in Marrakech - Hotel Es Saadi (means happy people) and I'm pretty happy at the moment!! Booked a much needed massage for right now which will have me signing Moroccan Melodies by the end of the hour!!

Marrakech looks (in the 15 minutes I've been here) much more of a Have than a Have Not kinda town.... Unfortunetly there are casinos and construction like we have starbucks. I'm not complaining as I really haven't eaten anything in a week or slept on a bed that didn't resemble and feel like a concrete ironing board.  And this room is pretty great, bed is fabulous and did I mention I'm getting a MASSAGE!! Plus free wireless makes me giddy.

Tourist Transport
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I feel selfish and "american" even admitting that.  But I'm trying to get very clear with What Is My Truth -I'm trying to work on just being in this moment and seeing what the truth is for me with that moment.

This moment is calling me to get my body mashed on so I'm off like a camel in the sahara who just found a pond (or something moroccan like that)

Ciao ~