I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

The Amateur Traveler episode 793. Today the amateur traveler talks about beaches and

mosques, surfing and souks, riads and fortresses as we go to the coast of Morocco.

I know that I should be heading home,

but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Morocco. I'd like to welcome to the show Amanda Mutaki from moroc mama.com who's come to talk to us about Morocco.

Amanda welcome to the show.

Hi Chris thanks for having me.

And what is your connection with Morocco?

So I have a very long history with Morocco actually.

The first time I came to Morocco was in 2003 and I met my husband on that trip the person who was going to be my husband didn't know it at the time but we ended up having a love at first sight relationship, got married within a year at 19 years old and lived in the

US for about nine years and then decided we wanted to come back to Morocco in 2013 because our kids were,

our two oldest kids were six and eight. So we decided we wanted to move back to Morocco so that our kids could learn Arabic and French and have a connection to their family here.

And we intended to stay for one year. And here we are almost a decade later later and we just haven't left.

Excellent. Well and you also write about Morocco and are doing tours in Morocco to

as I recall? Yeah so I do quite a bit of freelance writing

and my passion and my niche, I guess,

if you would call it as kind of food and culinary tourism.

And from that and from my website website we started a food tour business in

Marrakesh that is now branching out a bit so we just love to introduce

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