{"id":4331,"date":"2025-05-03T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:04:19","slug":"morocco-tour-day-1-april-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=4331","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Tour, Day 1 \u2014 April 14, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel companies consider that the first day of a trip is the day you leave your home. Our flight was not until 8:45 PM, so we had plenty of time \u00a0before leaving home for JFK Airport. We were both excited, thanks to our friend John&#8217;s brother David and sister-in-law Eileen, who had done the O.A.T. trip to Morocco a few months earlier and \u00a0had found it to be their favorite trip ever.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FSC_6865.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4340 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FSC_6865-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FSC_6865-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FSC_6865-768x499.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FSC_6865.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a>How many people are on one line or another at J.F.K airport \u00a0on any given day? I can&#8217;t begin to guess! We had exchanged messages with our Trip Experience Leader (guide). A WhatsApp app had been set up for the members of our group, so we knew that Jennifer and Andy, \u00a0 from Saratoga Springs, were on our flight, and we were able to meet them when we were at our flight&#8217;s \u00a0gate.<\/p>\n<p>O.A.T. made the flight arrangements. Our airline was <em>Royal Air Maroc<\/em>. Dinner on the plane was fish fillet, couscous and herb salad, and cheesecake, all surprisingly very tasty. The trip was off to a very good start!<a href=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ESE_0543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4341\" src=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ESE_0543-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ESE_0543-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ESE_0543-768x421.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ESE_0543.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t enjoy shopping. I typically get earrings for Carla when Nick and I are on a trip, but it&#8217;s so hard to find a souvenir that Nicholas would like. I decided to ask him. He replied that he wanted a lamp. A lamp??? Well, not just any lamp. A lamp that had a genie inside that could make wishes come true.<\/p>\n<p>9,654 Steps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel companies consider that the first day of a trip is the day you leave your home. Our flight was not until 8:45 PM, so we had plenty of time \u00a0before leaving home for JFK Airport. We were both excited, thanks to our friend John&#8217;s brother David and sister-in-law Eileen, who had done the O.A.T. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=4331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morocco Tour, Day 1 \u2014 April 14, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morocco-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}