After a four year hiatus (with a tune-up trip to Maine this summer), we are going back on the road next week. Shortly after our 2019 trip to Southeast Asia (chronicled on these pages(1) ), we started planning our travel for 2020 – a spring trip to Italy, and a fall trip to Morocco. We all know how 2020 turned out. So no travel.

But since we were bored, we decided in the fall of 2020 to build a new house in a new state. Which kept us completely occupied for 2021 and 2022. We moved in at the beginning of this year, and immediately resurrected our Morocco plan, which is where we will be next week.

This will be our first trip to Northern Africa, which borders the Mediterranean Sea. And only our second trip to the continent, after our 2017 Africa Safari (also chronicled on these pages).

Unlike some of our previous trips, we’ve actually done very little actual preparation as of this late date (2). Yes, we’ve started to think about and pull out some of the clothes we will bring. It seems that pretty much every trip we take, with the exception of a beach resort, has uncertain weather and that creates a dilemma when trying to pack your stuff. Marrakech, one of our stops, is typically in the 70s this time of year – perfect for touring and sightseeing. Next week’s forecast has highs in the upper 80s. And we will be going to some other parts of the country which are forecast to drop as low as 46 at night. So – sandals and a fleece? A conundrum.

As always, I’ve spent a bit of time (3) thinking about electronics and photography gear. As much as the world seems to move towards USB-C as a standard connector, each of us needs to power devices using USB-C, Lightning and microUSB, sometimes more than one of each at a time. So we’ll have a full suite of cables with us.

I’ll write another geeky post about my camera strategy this year.

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(1) Technically, these are blog “posts”, not “pages”. But you get the drift.

(2) Technically, one of us has spent a lot more time than the other one. That would not be me.

(3) Technically, I spent a lot of time.