Our last week in Morocco. This weekend we sail back to Spain. How we loved Morocco! And yet... suddenly we both feel like we want to go back to Europe, we seem to be a bit done with it.
Psychological effect
It's all so overwhelming. As Kelly wrote in the previous blog , we had to get used to everything here for the first two weeks. And after those two weeks we were completely converted and could intensely enjoy everything around us. Now there seems to be a turning point again. Is this just the psychological effect, because we know that we will leave the African continent again next weekend? Do you know that feeling? That you are really looking forward to the holiday. The last working week you are so looking forward to it. While if your holiday had been planned a month later you would be really looking forward to it. Or are we just saturated for a while? The contrasts, the landscape, the helpful people and life in an environment that is so different from what we are used to. When the chaos and the packed donkeys are no longer noticeable, it might be time to leave.
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Tired
In addition, we are also quite tired. We may travel without end time (for many people a kind of endless vacation), but traveling is also quite tiring. We travel a lot further almost every day and then drive through beautiful pieces of landscape that we all get to absorb.
Daily ritual
We are often asked what our days look like. Many days look like this: At 8:30 the alarm goes off and we have a cup of tea in bed. Then follows a lesson from 'The Course in Miracles'. Then we get out of bed, get dressed and do our morning exercises outside. Most days we leave between 10 and 10:30. We then drive for about 1.5 hours to have breakfast/lunch around 12. After dinner we drive on and look for a place to spend the night. Of course, this is much easier on some days than on others. The aim is to have found one between 15 and 16.
After arrival we install Globus 2 and take a rest. Then we start eating again. In the evening we discuss the route for the next day. Read something or watch something on TV. When we stay somewhere for two nights, the day is often spent on long walks, sightseeing and of course washing clothes and bedding and cleaning the bus.
"The road is made along the way"
Complain
Now don't think I'm complaining a bit. We still feel very privileged to be able to live this life now. Out of the standard system of working every day between four concrete walls. Working mostly to be able to pay the mortgage, the car and all the fixed costs and before you know it you're a few years further. We feel like we're really living now and doing what our hearts tell us at this moment.
Slow down
What we haven't managed to do yet after almost half a year of travelling is to slow down. We still have the hectic feeling that we have to do something every day, we have to drive further, take a walk, clean the bus, write a blog, edit another film etc. What will happen to our intentions to meditate daily, read more and develop ourselves spiritually? This is perhaps the biggest challenge for our next trip. Because in March we really 'have to' walk a lot in Spain, because we didn't do enough of that in Morocco...
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