Normandy 2021 Due to the COVID epidemic, the country of Morocco, which was my destination this year, closed its borders. This left me with an extra ten days to stay at my sister’s home in Senlis, France. About forty years ago we both visited the D-Day invasion beaches. It was a moving experience, but at my youthful age I did not truly appreciate the experience. Now that I have studied history in more depth and been to war, I thought it would be a good opportunity to visit t

Many people associate Morocco with the movie Casablanca and Rick’s Café, but there is so much more to this exotic destination. Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. To the north lies the Mediterranean Sea and the Rock of Gibraltar, a stone’s throw away. To the west is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the east, the country of Algeria. To the south stretches the mighty Western Sahara Desert. Morocco was once a co