There is no such thing as free lunch...LIES

He promptly offered to take me by the bus station and check with me. I was like, is this guy for real? So I told him it was much too kind and I did not want to take him out of his way. He said no problem, and I shrugged. If he was gonna kill me with a chainsaw, it was too late now.

Not 15 minutes later there we were at the bus station getting all the info. Afterward, he asked if I was hungry...I was starving.........and bought me a really nice lunch and soda at the bus station. I was still trying to figure out what was going on when he took me to take photos from a viewpoint over the medina. He finally dropped me off right on the main plaza near my hotel, but not before giving me 100dH for my ticket tomorrow. I tried to refuse, but he insisted. I left bewildered. He told me he does it for everyone when he is on vacation and the only thing I could come up with is that he was so grateful to have a decent job in Belgium that he truly enjoys sharing the wealth when he comes back. He did not try to flirt with me, bother me, or sell me anything. We were perfect strangers, and he basically accomplished my afternoon agenda, walking to bus, taking bus to Meknes, going toMeknes bus station, getting lunch, and returning to hotel, in the matter of an hour or so. And paid me to do it. He told me he wanted me to leave Morocco with a good impression of Meknes. Well, it worked!! I am 12 dollars richer and in very good spirits.

I met a much sketchier guy who invited me to his house this afternoon, but his insistence that I relax and make myself at home, along with the fact that he kept telling me how he wanted to get to know me, caused me to all of a sudden have a lot of studying to do.

So that's it. I am caught up. Tomorrow morning I take the bus to Tanger, right on the border of Spain, and Tuesday morning I am taking the ferry into Spain. I am probably going to go to Granada, Sevilla, Leon, and then Portugal, before flying to London next Sunday. That is the plan anyway. So far I have not exactly stuck to much of a plan. Or maybe I just didn't have one. Whatever.