Whence tomorrow?

I hadn't really been thinking too hard about where to go tomorrow, as it made my head hurt. South through the high Atlas and toward Ouarzazate and maybe Zagoura and the desert? West toward the Atlantic coast and Essaouira? North to Casablanca? Or to Fez and Meknes as originally planned? And if to Fez, Taxi rental to take the road along the Atlas? Or Bus or train along the longer road through Casablanca and Rabat? Decisions, decisions. In the end I decided that I really want to go to Fez next, but instead of spending the entire day getting there (7 hours by train or 9 hours by bus), I will take a late morning train to Rabat and spend the night there in a modest but decent hotel. Rabat has a large modern area, but apparently also a nice, approachable Medina and a Kasbah. That's about a 3.5 hour train ride, and then on Sunday late in the day I will catch a train to Fez.

Currently my thinking is to stay in Fez for four nights, and take one day trip to Meknes. The Fez Medina is larger and apparently not as commercialized as the one in Marrakech. In the 2.5 days that I have been here I feel like I have "done" Marrakech, so the extra day in Fez should be good.

Time for bed, unless I decided to write one more post. Oh, at least I need to upload some pics to Facebook...