• Flying Squid
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    23 months ago

    If you’re there and you’re full of zombie and you meet a strange lady, don’t be nervous. She’ll take you in and make you breakfast.

    • @[email protected]
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      03 months ago

      Way too many people believe you’re going to get robbed, kidnapped, or killed 100% if you ever travel outside US-allied nations.

      • jackeryjoo
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        3 months ago

        Women should be concerned (at least when traveling alone through the middle east/Africa/India). Guys, not as much.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          And Europe. Tate went to Romania specifically for lax sex crime laws and enforcement.

          Gendered violence occurs everywhere. More likely by right extremists and areas with them. You are just unlikely to hear about any near you unless it is particularly egregious.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    After 1979 -

    The hippie trail largely ended in the late 1970s primarily due to both the Iranian Revolution resulting in an anti-Western government, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, closing the route to Western travelers.

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    Wdym before? People still take the hippie trail. Just US Americans can’t because Iran doesn’t let citizens of terrorist countries enter