The training trip was 15 days of train, mini bus and public bus with 12 funny, easy-going, mostly single Aussie, American and British clients, myself and my fellow L.A. trainer leader, Miles. The itinerary was the following:
Casablanca—half day in Rabat—Meknes—Fez—Midelt—Sahara—Todra Gorge—Ait Benhaddou—Imlil—Essaouira—Marrakech
Snow majorly blanket the Middle Atlas from Meknes to Midelt and we were left to wait and snowball fight for two hours on the highway as the overpass to Midelt was cleared. We met many local truck drivers and I scored a love note and number from one of them. Fez was freezing and rainy; Todra stunning (I rockclimbed for my first time, for which it was not necessary to have any instruction or practice before scaling half the gorge face); the 45-min muddy path up to from Imlil up to the hotel was thrilling in freezing rain then sloppy snow—the views in the morning of the highest mountain in Morocco thrilling; my big birthday dinner and night out dancing in Marrakech excellent closure for the trip.
I will be completing the same itinerary for the next two trips, then will hopefully have some time off and back again onto some other trips.
I’ll try to keep this journal up.
