Open Destination: Hitchhike the World

Afghanistan

Country List:

Afghanistan
Iran
Turkey Final
Georgia
Iraqı Kurdistan
East of Turkey
Lycia, Turkey
Europe: from England to Albania and Romania

Canadian Yukon

Hitchhiking, walking, cycling, riding: solo & out to learn

This is the story of a trip, starting Africa-bound from Europe and heading around the world. Hitchhiking and walking are my main means, but anything goes. So far I have gone over 75,000 km. The route plan changes daily - if people live there (and even if they don't) it is possible to get there, and it will probably be worth it.

You can read through my BLOGS to get a feel for the journey, check out a little of what INSPIRES ME, because there are many other people who have and continue to do amazing things, or sift through some of the IDEAS that cross my mind while on the road.

Above all, COMMENT. It's always nice to share ideas and hear what you are thinking!

A voyage without destination, open to anything.

Route Map:

Currently:
On break from Kabul

Route Maps

Time on the Road:

Ideas Blog

Fork in the Road

Update: I've finally wrote about life in Afghanistan. Its not much and quite sporadic. But its a start! After more than a year of silence I hope it at least gives an idea of what I have been up to, and hopefully answers the many, fairly worried, people who wrote wondering why I suddenly disappeared off the face of the internet once I got to Afghanistan, and hoping nothing went wrong. All is well! Please comment and if you would like to hear more about Afghanistan (good and bad), let me know!

Update: Found a place to call home, for now at least. Although Afghanistan was not even on the table when I was figuring out a route through Central Asia, somehow the Afghan embassy in Tehran was too tempting to pass up and a few weeks later I found myself hitching across the Herat border. One thing led to another, and the history, beauty, culture and challenge of this country caught my attention. Then all it took was meeting great people and an impromptu job offer, and here I am. Full story coming soon...

Yak riding in the Big Pamirs, Wakhan.

Update: February 2012. I am back on the road, hitching and hiking through Europe in a general easterly direction. Going to miss Africa and the warm hearts that always welcomed me there, but new journeys await. Asia is a very, very big place.

Update: Kyle the goat, my faithful hitchhiking partner in Cameroon, is living a happy life in Belo. I left her there in the mountains with a girl named Carine, and she recently emailed with the news that Kyle has given birth to "a healthy he-goat".

Read more about Carine, her school, and the organization through which I met her on my Cameroon blog or at the Goodness and Mercy Missions website: www.gmmafrica.org.

School in Belo, Cameroon where Carine studies (photo from the GMM website)