FORBIDDEN PHOTO WITH MOROCCAN POLICEMAN 
The reason for the policeman photo is 6 years ago, I did photos with policeman in every country except Morocco, it’s forbidden. So I thought I would try again, yep-got it. Last time here I thought, Morocco was nice but I didn’t need to come back. This trip I was visiting my good biking friend Stanley, so a different experience, for sure! He bought a house about 5 years ago and invited me to visit.
The Moroccans are the best salesman (scammers), my first time I got lured into several typical Moroccan “tours.” Again this time, when I got to the Medina in Marrakesh, I couldn’t find my hostel. I finally asked a Moroccan for directions, he took me in a giant circle and then to my hostel. I saw several hostels signs, when I asked the hostel hosts about the signs? They said that the Moroccans removed some of the signs, so they can make a euro or 2 helping “find” your accommodation. I paid, they got me again!, they’re good.
MOROCCAN RUGS 
SOMETIMES IT’S A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO GET TO THE EARTH CAFE
I ate everyday a the Earth Cafe, nice n quiet and healthy. After all the meat in Spain, this was the break I needed. Their advertising was a local hangout too!
Since I’ve been to Marrakesh and didn’t want to carry souvenirs around for 3 1/2 weeks, I headed to Stanley’s place. It was an all day affair to get there, basically outside the middle of nowhere. I finally got the mini-bus to TINWAINEN. There was 22 people on the mini-bus, check out video below.
IN AGADIR AN IMMIGRANTS REFUGEE CAMP 
“TINWAINEN” HANDMADE RUG
STANLEYS BACKYARD 
“TINWAINEN” 
STANLEY IS THE TOWN CELEBRITY 
DINNER @ LHABIB’S HOUSE 
LHABIB’S MOM MAKING ARGAN OIL 
LHABIB SENT ME THIS PICTURE OF HIS KIDS
FIRST MINI BUS RIDE FROM TAROUDANT TO TINWAINEN . IN THE VIDEO I SAID 15 PEOPLE I LATER COUNTED 22 INCLUDING 5 KIDS.
I asked Stanley “is there was a cafe in town”, he said “no.” We took a walk around the village and there’s is a new cafe in town. Stanley had little to no food at his house, so I said let’s go out. The owner Leonard has a foosball table and a pool table, it’s the community center. I owned the pool table for awhile, till the kid came and beat me 3 times! plus the rematch!
FRESH CHICKEN IN THE RESTAURANT
TOOK LESS THAN 5 MINUTES 
Being in Stanley’s village of “TINWAINEN” is interesting. It’s located at the end of the pavement. The town consist of “mud” walls that surround the perimeter of your property with your outdoors being on the inside courtyards. The walkways/roads are dirt, gravel and maybe some left over cement poured around. When I hear people complain about stuff (Slovenian’s do you here me?), you have no idea how good you have it.
There’s no garbage service here so people burn their plastic garbage. At times you could hardly breath. The first thing you see coming into town, is the garbage dump. Not everywhere is perfect and great, their are problems around the world.
Here’s some photos from around Tinwainen
TYPICAL STREET 
LOCAL MERCHANT, THE STORE IS WHAT YOU SEE 
IN FRONT OF MARKET, ALL DAY 
STANLEY’S COMPOST TURTLE 
MOROCCAN TEA POUR 
STONE FRONT DOOR 
HIKING OUTSIDE OF TOWN 
UPSIDE DOWN NIKE? 
GOING OUT GETTING WILD FEED FOR LIVESTOCK 
LOCAL “IRRIGATION” 
HANGING OUT DOWNTOWN
Stanley is a great bike mechanic, so we did a road bike and a Mt. Bike trip. I rode the Fat tire bike. Stanley wanted to go to the next village, the bike was too tough to ride. But we did get see the the goats in the trees eating Argon tree leaves. Stanley wants to make his house and around Tinwainen a tourist destination. If you want an adventure this is it.
ACE MECHANIC 
GOATS IN THE TREE 
MOTORCYCLIST GOING TO THE LAST VILLAGE 
When I go places I’m not just on vacation, I want to
“do something.” So we tried to get a garden up and running, so first we had to weed it. Stanley only stays here 4-ish months a year. It’s hot here in the summer & Climate Change is making it even hotter. You can see Climate Change refugees coming to the EU. That’s why people are migrating to America. Central American countries are experiencing droughts and can’t grow their food.
In Muslim countries beer is hard to find (nearly impossible) I bought one beer to bring back, I had to talk the hotel guy out of it, at first he said no. WTF. I saved that one beer for 4 days, worked then a nice cold one.
BEFORE 
HE CAN WORK 
MY ONLY BEER IS GREAT 
DONE, I WANTED TO WEED IT ALL BUT STANLEY DIDN’T, GOOD FOR WILDLIFE TOO. 
WE GOT THE LEAKING FAUCET FIXED
Where you pick up the mini-bus is Taroudant. I wanted to spend a day walking around town. But we spent part of the day looking for a bank machine that would take my card(s). The town was just the “right size”, you can get what you needed. I bought 2 kilos of clementines for 70 cents. Instead of a Taxi we took the horse carriage, about the same price. Except our horse didn’t want to run or walk. So the “driver” got out and pulled the horse down the street. Coming back to the village, we stopped for a few minutes. Saw this guys t-shirt wanted the photo and now Akerkaou & I are Facebook friends.
OUR PHOTOS FROM TAROUDANT
STANLEY’S FRENCH 
FARMERS MARKETS ARE AWESOME 
HUMAN HORSE POWER 
YEA BIKES 
I LOVED THE T-SHIRT,
AKERKAOU & OUR MINI-BUS DRIVER
THE VIDEO OF THE HORSE THAT WOULDN’T RUN OR WALK.
Morocco was 3 weeks of adventure, I was thinking just a 2 part blog , not possible, Morocco will probably be 3 posts (sorry) too many (super) photos.
Thanks for reading and sharing
Jeff
Nice one Jeff. Love the vids. Look forward to seeing your next posts. Thanks for taking the time to put these together so nicely.
Thanks for reading & commenting. It was good times