A postcard from Marrakesh
Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007, 9:09 PM by Lonely Planet
Baxter gets all poetic and looks to the past...
As I was waiting to enter the Saadian Tombs in the Bab Aganou cemetery, I came across a postcard in a curio shop, torn, tattered and long-forgotten.
Old-school postcards always bring to mind my step-mom's time in her Peace Corps days during the freewheelin' early 70s. That's when Tony and Maureen Wheeler rolled from Europe overland through Afghanistan into the wilds of Asia with no real plan.
There, over a few brews in Kathmandu the first authors were 'commissioned' at a bar on the seedy side of Thamel. The rest is, as we say, history. That my path should cross with theirs 30 years later on this electronic forum for like-minded travellers appears entirely impossible, but somehow or another, more likely than probable.
Labels: Africa, Bluelist Winners 2007
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