After about 30 hours and the equivalent of $46, I've just returned from a lovely trip to the town of Ifrane in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. While there, I visited Jane (another Fulbrighter) who is teaching at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI) .

I also, of course, visited the university library (the third of the four OCLC member libraries in Morocco on my itinerary).

The trip began Tuesday morning in the rain, and by the time the CTM bus made it into the mountains that afternoon, there was a full-fledged snow storm all around us. The bus was safe (and by this time, warm, although there had been no heat for the first two hours of the journey).

Jane was happy to show me around last evening, and then this morning, I met with the library's director. Mr. Lotfi and I had such a riveting conversation that I never actually got to visit the staff areas or take photos of the building.

I tell myself that those will be among my goals for my NEXT visit to AUI...