Hitching Across Canada - Black Flies, Freezing Weather, and Near Death Experience
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In early spring of 2009, I was in an existential crisis. I'd fallen for a girl in Morocco and far too quickly, we'd decided to get married. I felt trapped but at the same time I was in love and wanted to marry her - something inside me or inside her wouldn't let me escape. I had varying degrees of panic, emotion, and fear along with a sense of things already being written and no chance of changing what the future would be. I had one chance to get away...away from rings and engagement parties and expectation - bureaucracy combined with poverty could save me. She knew I didn't have any money and also, when I set out travelling, I hadn't brought things like my birth certificate or other paperwork I would need for marriage with me.
Hitching Across Canada - Black Flies, Freezing Weather, and Near Death Experience
Hitching Across Canada - Black Flies…
Hitching Across Canada - Black Flies, Freezing Weather, and Near Death Experience
In early spring of 2009, I was in an existential crisis. I'd fallen for a girl in Morocco and far too quickly, we'd decided to get married. I felt trapped but at the same time I was in love and wanted to marry her - something inside me or inside her wouldn't let me escape. I had varying degrees of panic, emotion, and fear along with a sense of things already being written and no chance of changing what the future would be. I had one chance to get away...away from rings and engagement parties and expectation - bureaucracy combined with poverty could save me. She knew I didn't have any money and also, when I set out travelling, I hadn't brought things like my birth certificate or other paperwork I would need for marriage with me.