Speaker 1: Hey, Jenny's got back from the trip of a lifetime.
Speaker 1: I'll never go to Morocco. I might go to Disney
Speaker 1: World look In or New York City. Morocco not on
Speaker 1: my Bingo card. So how was Morocco?
Speaker 2: It was great. I mean, it's a beautiful country. It
Speaker 2: has like so many different landscapes, mountains, you know, coastal cities,
Speaker 2: all that good stuff. And I do want to talk
Speaker 2: about like some of the fun things, but I also
Speaker 2: want to tell you guys some of the mishaps that
Speaker 2: happened along the way, because there were a few sketchy
Speaker 2: situations that I got put in because I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2: First off, I lost my passport at one point.
Speaker 3: No yep.
Speaker 2: I was at this one touristy garden thing and I
Speaker 2: had pulled some things out of my purse, including my passport,
Speaker 2: when I was sitting down to get a lipstick out,
Speaker 2: and I somehow left my passport sitting there. And so
Speaker 2: I'm meandering around taking photos, pictures when this woman frantically
Speaker 2: comes up to me in a different language, but I
Speaker 2: could understand she was saying passport and then she's like,
Speaker 2: did you lose it? And I was like, what because
Speaker 2: then my person go, oh, yeah, it's not in here,
Speaker 2: and she's like, okay, go to the front. And so
Speaker 2: I lost my passport for like I don't know, thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: I got it back. Wouldn't have known had that woman
Speaker 2: not like come up to me. I mean, thankfully you're
Speaker 2: the one tall blonde woman. Yeah, I did stand out
Speaker 2: a little bit. And then I genuinely thought I was
Speaker 2: like getting detained at an airport. At one point. I
Speaker 2: didn't know what was going on because in the northern
Speaker 2: part of the country, they spoke English pretty much in
Speaker 2: like the main cities, but in the northern part. I
Speaker 2: was in one city where they more so spoke Arabic
Speaker 2: out at an Arabic language or Spanish, and so they're
Speaker 2: trying to like tell me I get through to go
Speaker 2: in this little small airport, and I would just like
Speaker 2: want to go to the next point where you're sitting
Speaker 2: down waiting for the plane. You know, I already did
Speaker 2: the check in part, and they're like, you're going to Marrakesh,
Speaker 2: and I go yeah. They're like Marrakesh, I go yeah,
Speaker 2: And then they like start passing my passport around to
Speaker 2: like three different police officers, you know, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: what's happening. Then the one guy's like, come with me,
Speaker 2: and I'm like.
Speaker 4: Oh no, okay.
Speaker 2: They're like holding up the picture making sure it's you
Speaker 2: and let me tell you stress because I had downloaded
Speaker 2: this app called in drive, which is like their version
Speaker 2: of Uber. But then I found out that it's illegal
Speaker 2: there it's not yes, And so I was trying to
Speaker 2: get a ride to the airport that day through in
Speaker 2: Drive and my driver goes, hey, I've had a few
Speaker 2: friends pulled over today and now they got their license revoked, Like,
Speaker 2: don't do in drive today because the cops are out
Speaker 2: looking for in drive drivers. Why is that illegal? Because
Speaker 2: it takes away from the taxi system that they have
Speaker 2: there and stuff, So taxi drivers are like reporting the drivers.
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting there, I was like, am I getting
Speaker 2: in trouble because I downloaded that app? And but really
Speaker 2: the reality was I was way too early to that flight,
Speaker 2: and that airport was so small that they didn't want
Speaker 2: to let me through the part to sit. But I
Speaker 2: couldn't understand what they were saying because they were they
Speaker 2: most of them didn't really know English that they go
Speaker 2: out here, and and they said wait, wait for four,
Speaker 2: and they kept saying wait for four, so I thought
Speaker 2: they said met and like wait for four minutes, and
Speaker 2: I was like, then, what what happens? After four minutes
Speaker 2: they were mean and like, wait until four pm to
Speaker 2: come into this part. So I mad. Did I start
Speaker 2: getting some anxiety? Eddy's stomach is going exactly. But outside
Speaker 2: of that, the trip was really really amazing. I meant
Speaker 2: a lot. I met a lot of really friendly people.
Speaker 2: I met this one mother daughter duo. Their names were
Speaker 2: Peggy and Tiffany. They were celebrating Tiffany's thirtieth birthday. Peggy
Speaker 2: lives in Miami, Tiffany lives in London now. And Peggy
Speaker 2: was a hoot because she was like, yeah, I made
Speaker 2: some friends on the airplane. Airplane, I took an edible
Speaker 2: and I was like, what you took an edible? I
Speaker 2: was like, so someone was bringing edibles into Morocco.
Speaker 1: Probably not a good idea, not a good idea. They
Speaker 1: take drugs really there.
Speaker 2: And then Tiffany's like, yeah, that's just my mom for you,
Speaker 2: and so like, anyways, I'm friends with them, not on Instagram.
Speaker 2: That's fun. I did get kissed by one man when
Speaker 2: he was trying to sell me earrings on the lips.
Speaker 2: On the cheek, oh my god, on the cheek. He
Speaker 2: was like, you happy, I'm happy. I'm happy you happy.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm not really that happy, because honestly,
Speaker 2: you're kind of forcing me to buy these ear rings
Speaker 2: right now. No, it just was a slipping some tongue.
Speaker 2: This was a little bit of an older man that
Speaker 2: I would never allowed to touch me.
Speaker 1: No, not.
Speaker 2: Even like that. But yeah, Morocco is a great country.
Speaker 2: I think it's I mean, if you're interested in going,
Speaker 2: I think you should go. It's a beautiful country. And
Speaker 2: the people there are very very friendly. They're like they
Speaker 2: treat you like family. So it was a wow, did
Speaker 2: you stumble upon Morocco? I mean of all the places
Speaker 2: in the world, Like because I'm cheap, And I got
Speaker 2: an email because I subscribed to this one like frugal
Speaker 2: like flight service thing and it was like Morocco for
Speaker 2: this many delta points and it equated to about three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars total, and I was like, I had some
Speaker 2: vacation to use. By the end of the year. I
Speaker 2: was planning on doing a van trip and honestly, this
Speaker 2: trip probably cost equivalent to if I would have done
Speaker 2: a van.
Speaker 4: Trip for the gas and everything.
Speaker 2: The gas and everything. So I ended up going there,
Speaker 2: and I've had friends go there where I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that looks really cool. It never was on the top
Speaker 2: of my list, but I just feel like I like
Speaker 2: to travel frugally, and Morocco is a very affordable country
Speaker 2: to go to. Like the places I stayed at were
Speaker 2: under one hundred dollars a night, you know, and they
Speaker 2: were beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, regular accommodations, I mean, not sound like a dumb American,
Speaker 1: but like toilet, sink, comfortable bed, no bed bugs, everything work.
Speaker 2: You definitely like there's a there's definitely a big difference
Speaker 2: between spending fifty dollars a night at a read versus
Speaker 2: like one hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: At a night a hotel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, oh, it's basically like a big Moroccan
Speaker 2: house that has like a courtyard of the meadow. But
Speaker 2: that's what most people say at But no, it was
Speaker 2: all fine. It was nice. I mean one of the
Speaker 2: reads was kind of the room itself was kind of
Speaker 2: like it didn't have a lot of character, but the
Speaker 2: rest of the house had a lot of characters. So
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just it's a very different culture.
Speaker 2: I've never been somewhere that has palaces and had sultans
Speaker 2: at one point, so it's just really fun to learn
Speaker 2: about that kind of history.
Speaker 4: Though, Do have it do?
Speaker 2: I did hear. I did hear when I post one
Speaker 2: of the photos that they're like, this looks exactly like
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I'll be honest, I've never been
Speaker 2: to the Morocco. It was it was, yeah, it was
Speaker 2: not someone else, but but yeah, it was a really
Speaker 2: fun country and I had a great time. You're not
Speaker 2: really It's obviously a Muslim country, so drinking is not.
Speaker 1: The toilet's the same over there, because that's the dumb
Speaker 1: because in some countries toilets don't look like our toilets here.
Speaker 4: Look they're the same.
Speaker 2: I got real hyped when I saw one of my
Speaker 2: reads had a little hose next to their version of
Speaker 2: a drinking water. No, no, it's to clean your bee.
Speaker 2: So I got really excited when I saw that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was I mean, is it is it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: I mean that one thing I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to be honest about. Yeah, I don't think Moroccan
Speaker 2: foods my thing. It's my thing for like, no, it's
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be funny, Okay. I will say
Speaker 2: that I tried camel burger, which I did my research. Yes,
Speaker 2: I did my research. I had a time to make
Speaker 2: sure that that was like an ethically type thing whatever,
Speaker 2: and it is. It's like, it's kind of like eating
Speaker 2: burgers here, Like camels are kind of like how beef
Speaker 2: is here for us? What did it taste like? Honestly,
Speaker 2: it wasn't anything special. It was pretty it was kind
Speaker 2: of bland. Honestly, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I don't recommend it. No,
Speaker 2: I would say try it, but I wouldn't say it
Speaker 2: was like phenomenal. It wasn't like a parlor burger.
Speaker 4: I couldn't get right.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get past the idea that to meet the camel.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I don't really like about it anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah I get it. Yeah, I would do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I would still be like, it's a camel.
Speaker 2: But their main dish that most people get is called tajene,
Speaker 2: which is it's called that because of the dish. The
Speaker 2: actual dish that they make it in is very unique.
Speaker 2: If you saw the dish, you would like probably be
Speaker 2: able to associate that with Morocco, but it's all like
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was like beef and prunes and
Speaker 2: like it was really good. Yeah, but I liked it
Speaker 2: one time and then I had it another time in
Speaker 2: the trip and I was like over it. I would
Speaker 2: assume it's like super rich and like very different. It
Speaker 2: was a hard country to be in based off of
Speaker 2: me and tummy issues and my healthiness because there was
Speaker 2: like you're not supposed to eat the fruit there that
Speaker 2: doesn't have peels on it. You don't drink the water.
Speaker 2: You need to get bottled water and stuff. So I
Speaker 2: definitely was in the airport dying yesterday morning before my
Speaker 2: ten hour flight was about to take off. No, it
Speaker 2: was just so I did. I only had tummy issues
Speaker 2: the last like morning I was jetting out to come
Speaker 2: back to America. But yeah, the food was probably the
Speaker 2: one thing I kind of was like over.
Speaker 4: With American question McDonald's Burger King.
Speaker 2: Did they did? And actually at the train station they
Speaker 2: had caribou the.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like what, I'll be honest, things though
Speaker 2: there are not like the American version, because I did
Speaker 2: get a Starbucks drink and it was all very good,
Speaker 2: and then I got a martini at one place too,
Speaker 2: and it was so bad. It was not a martini.
Speaker 2: I did not know what they put in it, Like.
Speaker 1: I could tell be careful with that alcohol in some countries, yeah,
Speaker 1: because they don't. It's there's not the same regulations.
Speaker 2: I well, I tried to be respectful obviously of the
Speaker 2: culture because they don't drink. Muslim people don't drink, and
Speaker 2: so it's like I didn't really drink. Besides, they had
Speaker 2: some wine at a few places. But then the one
Speaker 2: place I got a cocktail was like a place that
Speaker 2: was really bougie in this nice hotel that I wanted
Speaker 2: to see, and so I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 2: just treat myself to a cocktail here. But that was
Speaker 2: a bad choice. I should have just not gotten any alcohol.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was super fun and a lot of
Speaker 2: people were texting if I was alone. Yes, I was alone.
Speaker 2: It was just me and my tripod, which is how
Speaker 2: I got all my photos. So many people are like,
Speaker 2: are you really alone? And I know, I'm really literally.
Speaker 4: Talked about that last week. Did she go with something?
Speaker 5: Oh see, I thought you just asked strangers to take
Speaker 5: your photos.
Speaker 2: No, strangers offered to take my photos and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want your photos. I have my tripod. Like
Speaker 2: I'm telling you the one time that like a few
Speaker 2: people took photos of me, because these Asian tourists came
Speaker 2: up to me at this one like sunset spot like
Speaker 2: we have a bunch of photo. Well, they spoke no English,
Speaker 2: so they're just kind of pointing and like showing that
Speaker 2: they had a bunch of photos with my hair in it.
Speaker 2: So then they're like they're telling me to stand in
Speaker 2: this one spot and started taking more photos of me,
Speaker 2: and I was like okay, cool. And then I was like, well,
Speaker 2: let me get a photo with you all, because this
Speaker 2: is hilarious to me that you're taking photos of me.
Speaker 2: And then I did have another man also come up
Speaker 2: to me and asked to do a photoshoot of me
Speaker 2: when I was in like the Blue City because that
Speaker 2: was like so pretty. That whole city is like an
Speaker 2: Instagram like dream but beautiful in itself. And he was
Speaker 2: like I've been waiting for someone with a yellow dress,
Speaker 2: Like I'm a photographer, can I take photos? I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be honest, I hated the photos he took head to me,
Speaker 2: and I was like, Nope, my pripo did better right,
Speaker 2: Like he has like a big following on Instagram, oh
Speaker 2: and everything. But it's just not my vibe of right. Yes,
Speaker 2: bad side, bad lighting, like all of the things. No,
Speaker 2: this is not it for me. But I appreciate you,
Speaker 2: Like I tried to collab with me on a post
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 3: Caps can I read. I just you posted this, Jenny,
Speaker 3: And I love this about you. You said in your thirties,
Speaker 3: there will be a really good flight deal to a
Speaker 3: different country. It's very important that you book it, even
Speaker 3: if you have to go alone. I Envy's not the word,
Speaker 3: but I just love that about you because the three
Speaker 3: of us when you told us you booked the flight,
Speaker 3: we were just like what why Morocco?
Speaker 2: Why alone?
Speaker 3: Like all these things, but you wasted no time just
Speaker 3: being like, fit, I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Go, and I'm not going to sit and pretend like
Speaker 2: I was a nervous or scared. I definitely was. I've
Speaker 2: only traveled by myself in my van before and I've
Speaker 2: got and the first time I ever did that, I
Speaker 2: was also nervous and scared, and now I'm so used
Speaker 2: to that, and I just think that there's so many
Speaker 2: things that you're scared to do in your life and
Speaker 2: you'll never know until you do it. Yeah, So, like
Speaker 2: not to make this a big inspirational moment, but I
Speaker 2: genuinely feel like that trip taught me so much. And
Speaker 2: like I think that the things that you see and
Speaker 2: hear online you can't always trust. You have to like
Speaker 2: experience certain things on your own. Obviously, there's plenty of
Speaker 2: countries you definitely should not go to, yeah, that are
Speaker 2: not safe. I'm not saying that there's places that are art.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well actually it's just so you got to be bundled
Speaker 2: up there so you don't like die from hypothermia. But
Speaker 2: I just think that there's like a misconception of a
Speaker 2: lot of places in the world. And like I've never
Speaker 2: felt more welcomed, Like I felt so welcomed. And I hear, like,
Speaker 2: you go in no shade about going to France. I
Speaker 2: think that France is beautiful, but I hear that people
Speaker 2: in Paris are assholes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, sorry that all right, I'll cut that out.
Speaker 1: But we went to France and the touristy people are
Speaker 1: not at all. It's when you wander into some of
Speaker 1: the neighborhoods. Let's say you're on the Las Vegas Strip.
Speaker 1: Everybody is friendly, but you wandered down a side street
Speaker 1: and then people are like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Not in Vegas, but that's the comparison in France, because
Speaker 1: we were there in and a long time ago, and
Speaker 1: everybody was so friendly. They speak American, They're so happy
Speaker 1: to see you because that's the industry therein But you
Speaker 1: wander down to what's a French guy's name, Pierre, Pierre,
Speaker 1: Pierre's tavern in Peter's Tavern, which is two blocks off
Speaker 1: the beaten path. Pierre is pissed that you're there. What
Speaker 1: do you want?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: And then I get it if you lived in like
Speaker 2: a imagine Chan hasen suddenly like became a tourist spot,
Speaker 2: which sort of is because I mean there's Paisley Park,
Speaker 2: but like all of a sudden, you have all these
Speaker 2: people walking through your neighborhood constantly taking photos. I would
Speaker 2: understand like being annoyed with that, Like I totally get that,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. Moroccan people were very welcoming and
Speaker 2: they treat you like family. They take care of you.
Speaker 2: They did extra things for me that like I didn't
Speaker 2: even ask for to help me out and stuff throughout
Speaker 2: the trip, and they do, and they do have McDonald's.
Speaker 2: If you're really feeling like you need some homes, did.
Speaker 5: You did you feel extra beautiful when you were there?
Speaker 5: Because all I know is that the Epcot Morocco Pavilion,
Speaker 5: that all of the people who work there are super
Speaker 5: like flirty and nice.
Speaker 2: This is what they do to like women. I think
Speaker 2: in general they call everyone Shakira, so like Shakira Shakira
Speaker 2: and then they'll be nice nice. And I got this
Speaker 2: line a couple of times, so like you drop something
Speaker 2: and like to me, I was always like on edge
Speaker 2: of if I was going to get scammed. There are
Speaker 2: like some scam saying happened, but even here yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: And so I'm like, no, I didn't. I'm good. And
Speaker 2: then they're like you're crown and I was like, oh, shure,
Speaker 2: but like I can't your crown right, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think because I took notes of like some of those
Speaker 2: other things that they said, like why just because I
Speaker 2: don't know, but they do it everywhere Because then my
Speaker 2: Instagram feeds started getting like feeding me other things from
Speaker 2: other countries and they do that in Egypt a lot too,
Speaker 2: Like it's not just because I'm like blonde or whatever,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people thought I was Russian too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I can see it. Yeah, put in a
Speaker 2: little fur hat. Yeah. But I would always just get
Speaker 2: nice nice every time I watch Nice, Hell are you nice?
Speaker 2: And then they always say sorry. When I'm like no,
Speaker 2: thank you, They're like sorry, sorry, and I keep walking.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm gonna start doing that too. Then you
Speaker 5: walk and I care nice.
Speaker 4: Well, she gets that when she watched the parking lot
Speaker 4: of The Quick Trip.
Speaker 2: Truly nice, nice, good, Jenny