How Hitchhiking Suppressed my Fear of Travelling Alone

by Rupert Wolfe Murray | 19 Feb, 2015 | Journeys

Fear of travelling alone was a real problem for me. As soon as I got out of the suffocating grip of university I planned to escape, to travel to the other side of the world, to travel alone for years and to find a job somewhere in Shanghai.  Trouble was that I had never travelled for more than a day on my own, and even then it was always en-route to visiting someone, and the idea of doing this for months seemed impossible – and scary. (more…)