Off the coast of Morocco and about 100 miles Southwest of the Sahara Desert, you will find the Canary Islands. My flight in was approximately 9:00 PM and what better place to be than geometrically centered on the zenith for a desert sunset. The phenomena of light scattering by particles of dust in the atmosphere from desert storms created some of the most intense orange and red spectra imaginable.
Once I arrived it was time for 7 days of kitesurfing, scuba diving, and a motocross action.
I stayed at the Melia Gorriones which is about 5 km from Costa Calma and less than 500 meters from the Rene Egli Pro kitesurfing center. Kitesurfing magazines rate this place as one of the top ten hot spots for kiting enthusiasts, and rightly so with its consistent 28 knots of wind perpendicularly offshore. ROCK!
The instructors were cool to hang with, the drinks weren’t bad, and the water temp was perfect. The only negative comment I could make is the price. For a private lesson of kitesurfing you have to pay some exorbanant amount close to 300 euros. Forget that! Unfortunately, I ate the cost to see if it was worth it… it’s not. As I said, the instructors are cool people to hang with but they suck at instructing. There just like any dude off the street who made kitesurfing their hobby. My instructor up and decided to kitesurf himself for the last hour of my 3 hour lesson… not much teaching going on from 10 feet in the air. Oh well, still a fun time.
The island itself is 90% desert with roughly 10 days of rain a year. It also has 3 or 4 volcanoes which we took the Suzuki 4-stroke enduros up the side. I had the bike wrapped out in 3rd gear trying to climb these enormous volcanic sand dunes and it just wasn’t haven it… kept sinking the back tire even though it had paddle tires.
The scuba diving wasn’t the great barrier reef in Australia, but the underwater volcanic remnants were also a site to see. Saw a few stingrays, human-sized grouper, and a manta ray (do not piss it off!).
People ask me if I would visit this place again and I tell them no. With 6 other islands to see in this volcanic origin of the Atlantic, I would rather take my chances on one of those or possibly visit Egypt instead… but nobody knows what the wind blows?!? 
If your interested, I put a few more pictures from Fuerteventura here
Jordan, as always you make me so jealous. I’m glad to see you are living up every minute you have in Europe. Remind me to punch you in the junk when you get back.
Texas, you make me smile.
See you back in Milanoooo.
—Tizzy
Hang in there little tiger, looks like you’re having a rough time out there in dreamland. We’re all rootin’ for ya!