That there is Lenny as he runs back to the support vehicles after we took off in a hot air balloon in Morocco last year.

Afraid of heights? Don’t go up in a hot air balloon!

Two roads diverge. Morocco 2013

A cow in a Berber village, Morocco 2013.

Fires bursts into the hot air balloon we flew in yesterday near Marrakech, Morocco. The air in the balloon has to be 85C hotter than the surrounding air to provide enough lift to raise the weight of the basket and passengers so we were always warm!

Yesterday brought the news that 19 tourists died in Egypt when their hot air balloon crashed. It almost made us rethink our activities today because we were planning to go up in a balloon here in Marrakech! The chance that our balloon would crash just because a balloon in Egypt crashed is minuscule. They’re unrelated…