There was a 5:30 a.m. taxi ride to the bus which was parked outside of the bus driver's house. As his first customers, the family and I had our pick of seats and sat right up front. It turns out the driver is a friend of the brother-in-law of a daughter-in-law of the family. Isn't it always not what you know, but who you know?
After 30 minutes and 2 more customers, we left. For the downtown bus terminal. Another 45 minutes passed as we waited for the bus to fill. And those prime front seats we had? We were told apologetically to move back 4 rows. The impenetrable Arabic explanation left the reason why a mystery to me. In any case, the bus to Casablanca finally got underway.
In the Morrocan Arabic dialect, there are at least a couple of words for bus. The please-get-me-to-work-on-time bus is called a toe-bis (not making this up). The city-to-city variety is called a car (still not making this up). I guess it's the same in America, where the lowly form of bus transportation tries to elevate itself by use of the word "coach".
If you travel by style in a car, make sure you take a look to see if there are windows all around the back of it. Know what that means? No bathroom. Very common. On the 3 hour trip to Casablanca, it's a good time to heed mom's advice, "You should of gone before you went".
After 30 minutes and 2 more customers, we left. For the downtown bus terminal. Another 45 minutes passed as we waited for the bus to fill. And those prime front seats we had? We were told apologetically to move back 4 rows. The impenetrable Arabic explanation left the reason why a mystery to me. In any case, the bus to Casablanca finally got underway.
In the Morrocan Arabic dialect, there are at least a couple of words for bus. The please-get-me-to-work-on-time bus is called a toe-bis (not making this up). The city-to-city variety is called a car (still not making this up). I guess it's the same in America, where the lowly form of bus transportation tries to elevate itself by use of the word "coach".
If you travel by style in a car, make sure you take a look to see if there are windows all around the back of it. Know what that means? No bathroom. Very common. On the 3 hour trip to Casablanca, it's a good time to heed mom's advice, "You should of gone before you went".
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