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.
That ranks right up there with system.of a table.
My friends hitchhiked from Western Europe to India succefully in 2006.
Way too many people believe you’re going to get robbed, kidnapped, or killed 100% if you ever travel outside US-allied nations.
Women should be concerned (at least when traveling alone through the middle east/Africa/India). Guys, not as much.
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.
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.
Fascists ruin everything
I mean before the revolution Iran had a CIA-installed puppet government so… Yeah.
Which was fairly progressive…
only in the capital and major cities
that’s how countries generally work. the educated and the open minded move to cities while the reactionary either stay where they are or run to less populated areas to minimize exposure to outside opinions.
Facism ruing everything, fascists replacing fascists ruin everything squared.
Wdym before? People still take the hippie trail. Just US Americans can’t because Iran doesn’t let citizens of terrorist countries enter
