Happy New Year everyone!

We made the decision to leave Tenerife- there was mould in the house and my allergies were horrible so we would have had to move anyway! 

We have events every three months and the trek back to the USA from Tenerife isn't an easy route, so we decided to make our move back to the USA during the holiday break, ahead of our Empower Network Event in Miami Jan 24-26th. 

After Miami we are moving back to Bocas Del Toro in Panama, which is our home away from home. We've been to Bocas two different times during our 5 year journey and we consider the people and community there to be our "family". Hanalei will be stepping right back into the flow at Tangerine school located on the island. Her friends are still there, so she will walk right in just as if she never left...she is so excited to see all her friends again from Bocas!

Us going back to Bocas is similar to how American families visit a "summer house" each year and all the kids that know each other come back to see each other every summer...Hanalei cannot wait!

But before we head back to the USA, we decided to stop over to see Morocco and take a well deserved "vacation". Sounds funny, because we are always traveling, but we really never take time off to just enjoy and not work. So we did that during the holidays and came to Taghazout- a small fishing village on the south west coast of Morocco- to dip into some amazing cultures and for Brian to get some of Hurricane Hercules's waves.  

The hurricane brought incredible storms throughout Northern Europe and even better waves to Morocco. Brian has some of his best and biggest waves here...and was so stoked that we came. 

We stayed in a beautiful apartment run by Mourat (a super cool & magnetically happy local Moroccan), Will (a crazy surfer from Manchester) and their partner Chris- an ultra energetic and quirky (78 years young) gent form Ireland who moved to Taghazout 7 years ago and bought a few apartments that turned into "Surf N Stay". 

We stayed in Taghazout for 12 days then made our way to Marrakech.  

Wow...is this place amazing. What can i say about Djemaa el Fna...it's wild, loud, and in your face! The Djemaa el Fna is a world famous square and market place in the ancient wall of the Marrakech's medina quarter. During the day it's mostly filled with orange juice stalls, water sellers in colourful costumes, and snake charmers who will pose for photographs. After dark the square fills with dozens of food-stalls and there are crowds of people everywhere! Check out some of the colourful photos below...