Today began at the Fish & Vegetable Market in Sfax where stalls were filled with the best of freshly grown artichokes, onions, peppers, tomatoes and more. The fish was freshly caught and bidding was fast.
As soon they heard our accents we were greeted with smiles and hand over heart, "welcome, welcome Americans." I cannot describe the emotion I felt for their much deserved new and better life. Tunisian Spring.
Continuing south the landscape began to pass from olive groves that reached the horizon to desert sand. Dave Eicher passed around samples of the Tataouine meteorites that came from the 1931 fall.
Our hotel in Tataouine is near The Museum in Memory of the Earth and is filled with fossils and a few meteorites. Tomorrow we venture out in the strewn field.
Tonight Chris McKay will speak about Mars and meteorites.
Desert air is beginning to chill.
Melita
Sfax Vegetable Market
Fish Market
Delicious Olives
All done by Hand
On the Road to Tataouine
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