On all the highways in Morocco you see frequent police check points. Usually at a checkpoint there are three speed limit signs (60, 40, 20) each 20 feet apart then a stop sign.
Up until today the police have waved us through every checkpoint. We have probably gone through 50 or 60 of them. Unfortunately today we got stopped. Duke pulled over and the officer asked us for our papers. Because he didn’t speak English he called up somebody on his cell phone who told us in English that we had been going 73 kph when we passed the 60 kph sign.
He said the fine would be 150 Moroccan Dirham ($15). Since we were on our way to the border crossing, we had already spent all our Dirham. So he said we could pay $15 U.S. It took the officers a while to write the ticket. When I took a picture he told me to stop and made me delete the picture. Eventually he gave us the ticket, we paid our $15 and we were on our way. It was interesting to see that all the police were wearing body cameras.
About 30 miles later we arrived at Nador airport where we turned in our rental car. From there we took a 50 minute taxi ride to the Moroccan border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Border control was easy and we got another cab to the Parador where we are tonight.
Later we went out for a walk and checked in for our ferry ride tomorrow.
We had a fabulous dinner at a restaurant called La Travis’s.
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