Towing with Turbans

I actually slept really decently on a mattress under the stars because it was just too hot to stay in the tent. The next morning we packed up and rode the camels back to our car drop off. The guides were n ice enough to let me hitch a ride with the girls back to Zagora, so I got out of paying for a bus ticket. The girls had invited me to travel with them for a couple days since we were on the same route and I was really glad to have some company. We had an awesome time gett ing out of the desert because Omar got a call on his cell phone from a couple of supremely cleveer French Moroccan tourists who had geniously decided to drive their completely inadequate car into the desert and .........shockingly.............got it stuck in the sand. So we got to go and tow them out, which normally owuld have been really frustrating and boring.......buttttt... they towed with their turbans! Yeah, you knkow, the cloth things you wear on your head. The entertainment was well worth the heat and delay. The pictures are pr iceless. Even better, the guides got paid for doing it and they bought us sodas on the way out odf the desert..........let me tell you, if you have never had a cold Coke after spending the night in the Sahara..........you cannot appreciate how much I would have pa id for it at that point. Free was even better, though.

Anyway, we got a ride back to Zagora, which is on the edge of the Sahara. We were not really planning on spending a lot of time there, but this was Monday afternoon and the next bus to where we wanted to go, Rissani, was not until Wednesday. After brainstorming possible ways to tack together taxi and other transportation we decided that it was best just to wait until Wednesday. We found a hotel that let us sleeeep on the terrace next to the sw imming pool for 40dH, so that was amazing. Plus the added benefit of sunbathing during the hottest hours of the day. Let me tell you, I did not move from the pool all day Tuesday until the sun went down a little around 4