Thanks! I will definitely do a trip report, but I'm still nervous about traveling through Morocco solo or with another woman. West Africa is a different story, it's Black Africa -- animist-ancestor-magic traditions with only a nod to Muslimism. Historically Muslim's couldn't enslave other Muslims so to protect themselves from the slave trade, Blacks in West Africa "converted." But they didn't seriously adopt it - i.e., in West Africa women walk around with bare breasts feeding their babies, and women are the center of society - not hidden away. They run the markets, for example. They confront, demand respect. West Africa women adopted me, bossed me around and everyone around them! Told men to show me directions to here and there, and to make sure I was taken care of once I got there.
So when I was traveling alone through Black West Africa, even in the most remote areas, men treated me as an equal or "honorary man," and because I'm a woman I also got to hang out with the women, braiding hair, holding babies. But from what I understand that isn't going to be the case in an area where women are covered head to toe. Is it like that? Are the women really so hidden away, restricted, and there are the men hostile, sexually agressive toward western women? I mean, if you get a chance to go to West Africa, wow, the dancing! It's very energetic, super-sexualized, and filled with parody, humor. Everybody falls down laughing at a certain point. I don't think that's going to happen where the sexes are so separated. I haven't seen any reports of women motorcycling through Morocco. Just stupid backpacker girls in shorts getting harassed. Maybe in full mesh mc gear, helmet, boots it would be a different story. I've pretty consistently found that when I'm traveling by bicycle or motorcycle there's a "sport" thing that is perceived that puts me outside of the stereotypical "woman" category. It would be nice to prove that!
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