Hitchhiking Through Morocco

Hitchhiking through Morocco

Morocco | Sunday, October 17, 2010 | 5 photos

While studying abroad in England this past year, I decided to take part in a charity event (through Link Community Development) to hitchhike to Morocco during Easter holidays. It took four days thumbing it through France and Spain to get to the border at Nadar. The next two weeks were spent meeting some amazing people and experiencing incredible sights and culture while traveling through the country. I went not knowing a soul, but with a passion for travel and adventure (I had met my hitching partners through Facebook and separated from everyone after this trip to go on my own through Greece, Italy, and Croatia for ten days). These photos are of course only bits of my experience; we stopped through many towns while on the road and explored medinas, had a game of football with a group of locals in Marrakech, and wandered through a fishing dock in Essaouria. I am a travel-holic in the greatest sense since my first time going abroad only a little more than a year ago - I think about travelling on a daily basis and am working on spending my life doing so after graduating university next August. My trip to Morocco represents everything I love about travel: the fruition of some hard work and planning, unavoidable spontaneity, meeting new people and experiencing new things everyday, and always being on the move. The world is extraordinarily bigger than one's own friends and backyard and my experiences of traveling around Europe and Asia this past year have really exemplified that to me. One of my absolute favorite things to do is play photog while travelling. I'm studying journalism, film studies, and international relations at university. My ultimate dream is to combine these things to make a career out of what I'm learning and my passion for adventure and travel.