Things I did not do in Morocco

·   Learn Arabic: although I repeated shokran! (thank you!) many, many times. Thanks Uncle O, shout out to the Piatto crew!

My favorite picture from the trip: Riding camels across the Sahara

·   Capture the beauty of Morocco in pictures. I tried, and having a good camera helped (thanks Uncle Peter & Aunt Widgie!) ... but it's an impossible thing to do.

·   Go into a mosque. Non-Muslims are prohibited to enter almost most Mosques in Morocco, but I certainly admired their beauty from outside.

·   Figure out how to deal with all the men on the streets who wanted to “welcome” me, and “practice English”.  Various techniques of evasion were attempted.

·   Try the snail soup. I looked at it, I thought about it, and I passed.

·   Visit a Morocco PCV. This would have been really cool…but didn’t happen. Hopefully any traveling I do post-Morocco will be more planned and I can arrange for this to happen in other Peace Corps countries.

·   Play with kids. Before Niger, kids made me feel uncomfortable, and babies scared me. In Morocco, I found myself missing them.

·   See the Mediterranean Coast. Another trip, another time…the Atlantic Coast was beautiful though.

·   Find the Saharan Desert stars more impressive than the ones in Niger.  Now I sound like a snob, but all I’m trying to say is that in Niger, the stars are astounding.