some expressions
The journey,this was actually one of the purposes of the trip . . . and
we managed to keep all these dates, which is amazing really considering the
detours we made. An old friend acted as a sort of transport organiser for
everyone and the Hotel Ali in Marrakech was a good social base - I'd really
recommend it, although I can't remember who runs it. Anyway, groups of
friends actually joined us for three-week stints and others just linked up
with us. Some, whom we hadn't met before the trip at all, tagged on for
short bursts - people from the area - who just came along for the ride. But
outside the major visitor areas like Toubkal we only met one other group
of travellers like ourselves in the whole 96 days.

1.keep all these dates --- what's the meaning?
2.link up with us---what's the meaning of link up?
3.what's meaning of "tag on for short bursts"?

Question

some expressions
The journey,this was actually one of the purposes of the trip . . . and
we managed to keep all these dates, which is amazing really considering the
detours we made. An old friend acted as a sort of transport organiser for 
everyone and the Hotel Ali in Marrakech was a good social base - I'd really
recommend it, although I can't remember who runs it. Anyway, groups of 
friends actually joined us for three-week stints and others just linked up
with us. Some, whom we hadn't met before the trip at all, tagged on for
short bursts - people from the area - who just came along for the ride. But
outside the major visitor areas like Toubkal we only met one other group
of travellers like ourselves in the whole 96 days.

1.keep all these dates --- what's the meaning?
2.link up with us---what's the meaning of link up?
3.what's meaning of "tag on for short bursts"?

Answer

It's a little difficult to understand what the author meant in some places because the original text is not well-written and uses colloquial phrases in strange places, but after thinking about it, I'm pretty sure this is what the author meant:

Keep all these dates --- the author had somewhere they needed to be, or something they had to do at a specific time. They were delayed because of the detours, but they still managed to get to all the places they had to be on time.
Basically the phrase means that they were able to get to an appointment without having to change it to a different time.

Link up with us -- 'link up' just means that these other people met with the person who is writing. So here the person is saying that some of their friends were with them for three weeks at a time, whereas others only arranged to meet up at one point or another.

Tagged on for short bursts -- 'tagged on' means that these people 'came along' or 'went with' the people who were in the story. 'for short bursts' means 'for small periods of time'. So the whole phrase means that the people who came along were with the person who wrote the post for only small periods of time.

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