We wimped out today. The weather has been very hot the last few days with highs in the low and mid 90’s. When we go to bed the temperatures in François with all of the windows open has been in the high 80’s which is not a good sleeping temperature. We were planning our next move when our friend Denis from Poitiers wandered over to say hi and mentioned that Essaouria was a nice place to visit that reminded him of St. Malo. As I was looking at it I also noticed that the high today was supposed to be 75 degrees so we were off on a three hour drive back to the coast.
The roads in Morocco continue to surprise, half of the drive was on cruise control on the Autoroute, and the other half was on a 4 lane National Road that was in good to fair shape. It wasn’t a cruise control road, but it was still very good.
We arrived at our campground about 1 pm and settled in. We were thinking of heading into Essaouria today, but the internet was good, the place was quiet, and we were a little tired so we settled in for a day of rest and streamed movies.