With two weeks until Thanksgiving, and miraculously free work calendars, Erin and I finally decided to take that week and go visit San Diego. We had tentatively planned a fishing trip and a dinner already, and decided to pull the trigger. Erin casually asked a few friends at work if there was anything in San Diego that we couldn’t miss, and a particularly well-traveled friend suggested that if we had a whole week + weekends, we should just do Spain and Morocco instead! Northern Africa wasn’t on our short list (nor our long list) of places to visit, but a quick Google search confirmed it was very popular, it was served by Star Alliance, and it somehow didn’t require a visa. So we went ahead and booked it!

We decided to fly into Marrakech, and out of Madrid seven days later. No real time to plan, so we would just hope for the best!