I'd like to thank the academy...

I had great plans of what I would write for this blog, my fiftieth. Now that I sit in front of my computer, I am at a loss. Should I make this into a great celebration of blogging, write a grandiose speech, or just put lots of pictures?!?!

The easy answer is, 'D - all of the above'!

I would like to thank everyone who reads this; without you I wouldn't be writing it. Blogging has been a great outlet for me and my writing has improved immensely. I had forgotten how much I love it.

Back in Canada, I am currently helping my parents move house but I have tonnes of stories and pictures to share of my travels through Morocco and Europe. And so, to jump start the blog back into life, I'll begin with my favourite pictures from the sand dunes of the Sahara Desert where we spent the night and rode camels near the border to Algeria.

We rode the bus for a couple of days making various stops at various old settlements before we got to the Sahara Desert. I was happy to sit in the back with a small camel woven out of palm leaves I bought from a boy at the side of the road.



My camel was a bit of a bastard but thankfully the only one who suffered was the girl on the camel in front of me who got camel slobber on her shirt.

We climbed the sand dunes which are much bigger than anything you find at the beach. It took nearly half an hour to get to the top. I was the first to make it up.




dusk...

dawn...

MORNING AT CAMP!!!