Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6C – Next → Horror Three ••••• As the cheese was brought out, things took a turn for the worse, for the Commissioner made a request we had somehow to refuse.
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6B – Next → Horror 2 ••••• Al was leading in the Land Cruiser and I was following in the Jeep, when a blue Citroen passed me doing at least 80
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Chapter 6 – The Land of a Thousand Horrors ← Previous – Chapter 6A – Next → Horror Upon Entry ••••• ”What is New Zealand?” “What do you mean, what is New Zealand?” Mira shot back. “I mean what is New Zealand?” the Algerian
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← Previous – Chapter 5E – Next → More Delays, Enjoying Hospitality ••••• Bad news met us in Rabat: the Algerian Embassy wanted 48 hours to process our visa applications. The girls, however, got a break; they were told that, as members of the
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← Previous – Chapter 5D – Next → Shopping, More Fun in the Desert ••••• By day the work tied us down, but by night we surrendered to the allure of the casbah, the old native section of Tangier, a fascinating labyrinth of ancient
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← Previous – Chapter 5C – Next → Almost a Tragedy ••••• After a sleepless night in the Land Cruiser, I was first in line at the Spanish customs shed by eleven. For an hour I waited impatiently while the guard wasted time, pretending
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← Previous – Chapter 5B – Next → More Tricks at the Border Car Queue ••••• Al and Willy walked back to their adopted car-by now second-to chat awhile and re-establish their credentials and their unselfish motives. Then they started out again, with Willy
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← Previous – Chapter 5A – Next → The Rock on the Road ••••• The rock of Gibraltar. To the geologist, a faulted, 1,400-foot mountain of porous Lower Jurassic Age limestone rising abruptly from the westernmost extremity of the Mediterranean Basin. To the geographer,
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← Previous – Chapter 4D – Next → Few Consolations, Moving on ••••• A miracle dispelled the gloom, a warm and friendly miracle. As we prepared to bed down for the night, a pretty blonde head poked through the front camper Hap, followed by
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← Previous – Chapter 4C – Next → More Delays ••••• But not everything has survived the generations unchanged; for it seemed to us that Catholicism, the official state religion, powerful as it still is in Spain, was losing its hold on the younger
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