I flew from Boston to my favorite city....a free flight from Southwest, it was a use it or lose it deal.
I stayed with my long-time friend Eleanor and her giant Newfoundland Louisa, on the upper Westside and finally started planning this trip. Besides runninng around visiting museums, galleries and some of my favorite haunts, it took two days of standing in lines and filling out forms to get a visa for India. Actually it was a very efficient system considering the great volume of visas processed. The Australian visa was done online, and I decided I would have to wait until I arrived in Kenya to apply for a visa at the airport. Then big decision of the first flight: I would fly Royal Air Morac to Marrakesh with just a stop over in Casablanca to clear customs; Moracco doesn't require a visa. I then booked a room at Riad Balkisse right in the Medina, the old part of town. Next I booked a bed in a hostel in Cairns, Queensland to be sure I had a place during the eclipse. Finally I started looking at safari possibilities. That is all the planning I did before taking off. I left late night October 25th to arrive in Marrakesh about 10:30 AM the next day. It is that easy.
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