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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM October 3, 1997
Sunrise (local): 6:15 a.m. Sunset (local): 5:56 p.m.	Weather 75°F
Traveled Since Yesterday 71 mi / 114 km Cumulative 265 mi / 427 km	Lat: 35° 14' 29" N Lon: 03° 55' 40" W Elev: 49 ft / 15 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Al Hoceima
Where We're Staying: Hotel Afrique
Places We Visited: biking-only day — no visits
Featured Site: the view from above the clouds
Person of the Day: Today we biked and biked and biked and biked . . . and only met the Customs Police who patrol the roads of Morocco.
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: beignets — deep-fried pastries that resemble donuts; Breakfast: pastries and scones; Lunch: bread, juice, and cookies; Dinner: salads, fries, bread, meat; Olive Count: 136
Word of the Day: Mahas-salama means "goodbye" in Arabic.
Tech Fact of the Day: The spelling of many of the cities we visit is an unstandardized free-for-all on maps, signs , and via the locals who write things out for us. For instance, on the route from Tetouan, we saw Chefchaouen spelled two different ways, and today we saw our destination written as "El Hociem," "Al Hoceima," and "Alhucem," making it a challenge to know whether we were on the right track and to agree on a spelling for the dispatches!


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