long summarizing post and update

Holla

First, thanksgiving in fez was awesome. We ate at my favorite restuarant in the world (Dar Tazi), and it was awesome. We also visited the Sufi Platemaker, saw a bunch of cool stuff, etc. I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving wherever they were, especially my family at home, as this is the first time I've had thanksgiving without them! Also, it was great fun explaining thanksgiving in arabic to my moroccan family.

Then, after fez, we rolled north by train (by 5 hour train) to Tanger, which matched all previous accounts I had read about it. Basically, Tanger is infested by hustlers, people who offer you useless things and then try to guilt you into things. My advice is not to ask anybody anything and never to listen to anyone. Gee, what a great place to be. If you asked someone the time, they'd probably say, "It's 7:00, and don't forget what I just did for you, telling you the time and all, you used my help, give me five dollars". So yeah, Tanger, while cool in location, sucks in personality, and we ate dinner last night and then rolled to the ferry this morning.

The ferry, in my mind, was supposed to be this beautiful and relaxing trip across the most famous strait in the world. Instead, we left 3 hours late, and hit rough seas causing widespread sea-sickness. Pretty gruesome. Got some cool pictures before the waves got bad though.

We arrived in Algeciras on the Spanish Side about an hour ago, and we catch a bus to Seville in about 45 minutes. That'll be another solid 2.5 hours, but whatever, I look forward to settling my stuff down and chilling for a bit.
Oh yeah, and I lost my hat that I bought in London somewhere in the same bus station where I sit now. Really frustrating. I liked that hat, plus it was L40, oh well.

anyways, just eager to get settled in somewhere,
Andrew