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Essaouira 2006, Gnaoua Festival, Pat Metheny, Hamid El Kasri.

Saturday, June 24 2006

1 year, 11 months, 2 days

Essaouira, Morocco

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Manfred is creator of ThisFabTrek.com, photography and journey, a travel blog (since 2004).

I try to understand, report and photograph, enjoy, live and inhale different conceptions of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give). I reject jealousy, animosity, bigotry. Be free!

Manfred in the desert of the Western Sahara

The mind, when pondering at night had always asked those questions. What am I doing in corporate wonderland of bank, university, office or church? Who is the other animal asleep inside, the thinker, punk, creative, or Indian, vagabond and healer, maybe artist, writer, photographer and traveler? Oh God, dare you to think. So when seeing the lies, gambles and manipulations I followed my old dream and set out for the real journey, the one that is call life lived.

Many years later having lived that life on the road and taken the turns as they have come along, I have realized one thing: Only such a small part of the planet can ever be explored and such a vast land and sea mass will always remain unknown; many swamps, jungles, deserts and oceans I will never travel. I am father of twin boys, Daniel and David, my most important. ThisFabTrek is ongoing. Photography and Journey, Stories from the Road and Life around the World, Love and Peace.

Current vehicle.

G20, Gladiator.

Chevrolet Gladiator G20, Christina in Southern California.

Current Journey, Americas.

Every truck needs a lady. The G20, the vehicle that came to me for the Americas adventures.

6 wheeled Land Rover.

The vehicle of the Africa adventures, a Foley 6-Wheeled Land Rover Defender.

Before, the MB307.

Journey, Middle East.

The vehicle of the Middle-East and North-Cape Journies. See all vehicles.

Daniel and David with nanny Aisha, the best we ever had, black African Woman carrying white twin babies, in Bamako, Mali.

Land Rover 47,032km

Trekking 313km

Ferry 730km

Train 150km

Other cars 12,443km

(MB207 7,208km)

Journey Journal.

contains Festival/Art photography.

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it, to tell the tale." Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez.

"They never taught wandering in any school I attended. ... they never taught the art of writing a book, either. It's all so mysterious."
"Wandering is an art in itself. Wandering and writing don't mix"
"Writing demands commitment and if one thing your wanderer is allergic to is that very quality of commitment, for once one is committed he runs that very risk of failure ..." Wanderer - Sterling Hayden.

"Photography enables you to grasp a place first time round. ... Photography is a means of exploration, it's a vital part of travel, almost as essential as a car or a plane. " - Wim Wenders.

"The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game..." , Egon Friedell.

"How far you gonna go. Before you lose your way back home" - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World, Achtung Baby, U2.

"If you want to be a hero well just follow me." - Working Class Hero, John Lennon.

"When I think of all the things I have done, I know that it's only just begun." - I love you, Lou Reed.

"One does not escape the Sahara - the Sahara let's you go or not" - Touareg.

"Planet earth is blue and there`s nothing I can do" - This is Ground Control to Major Tom, David Bowie.

"Glory for the crazy people/in this stupid world" - Ahmed Fouad Negm.

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Pat Metheny trio.

NO COMMENT.

Pat Metheny Official site. Wikipedia. Manzer Pikasso Guitar.

Pat Metheny starts slowly.

Pat Metheny, Essaouira 2006 playing the Pikasso guitar, not Picasso

Pat Metheny next stunt.

- Pikasso, a guitar that no one else can play.

- none else ...

Pat Metheny.

Christian Mc Bride

Christian Mc Bride absolutely fabulous.

Christian Mc Bride

Antonio Sanchez.

Pat laughs ...

... thanks, ...

... thanks again, ...

... and again.

Maâlem Hamid El Kasri (Rabat).

Watch a video on Mondomix featuring El Kasri and Joe Zawinul in Essaouira 2004.

Maâlem Hamid El Kasri.

El Kasri.

Hamid El Kasri.

El Kasri, and his old man ...

... the crowd loves him ...

... who is the star ...

Saïd El Abdallaoui.

Saïd El Abdallaoui, detail

Saïd El Abdallaoui, Hamid El Kasri listening to the mystic sound.

Saïd El Abdallaoui, Hamid El Kasri detail.

El Kasri Gnaoua.

But where is Scott Kinsey?

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