AFAR - Where travel can take you

...now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse to seek real knowledge of life amid its perils." -Charlotte Bronte

Something I love in my current city

The scenery. I never get tired of the mountains here!

A local hidden treasure you shouldn’t miss

There's a souk in Asni on Saturdays...

My favorite local pub café or neighborhood bar

There's a tiny snack shack next to the school I work in. Other than that...good luck.

Knowledge & Experience

Geographical

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States • France • Girona, Spain • Granada, Spain • Marrakesh, Morocco • Morocco • Nantes, France • Spain

Current Hometown
Where I've Been
Where I've Lived
My Next Trip

Places I’ve Been

Cities Visited

Angola, Indiana, United States • Barcelona, Spain • Berne, Switzerland • Bremen, Bremen, Germany • Caen, France • Changhwa City, Taiwan • Estelí, Nicaragua • Fez, Morocco • Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States • Girona, Spain • Granada, Spain • Heidelberg, Stadtkreis Heidelberg District, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany • Hualien City, Taiwan • Ifrane, Morocco • London, United Kingdom • Luzern, Switzerland • Madrid, Spain • Managua, Nicaragua • Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz, Morocco • Meknes, Morocco • Munich, Germany • Nice, France • Orlando, Florida, United States • Ouray, Colorado, United States • Palermo, Italy • Paris, France • Rome, Italy • San Diego, California, United States • St Simons Island, Georgia, United States • St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Cities Lived In

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States • Morocco • Nantes, France • Napoleon, Ohio, United States • Oxford, Ohio, United States

Places I Want to Go

Cities I Want to Visit

Argentina • Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Budapest, , Budapest, Hungary • Corsica, France • Greece • Marseille, France • Quebec, Canada • Seattle, Washington, United States • Sweden • Turkey • Vietnam • Washington, District of Columbia, United States

My Next Trip

Cholet, France • Nantes, France • Rennes, Brittany, France

What I Do

Still figuring this one out...

Website

http://gretchenmw.wordpress.com/

Where I grew up

Ohio, United States

My Bio

All in all, I'm a work in progress--"boundless and therefore fragmendary." I graduated recently from Oxford--you know, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio--where I majored in English Literature and International Studies (Global Cultural Relations). Right now I'm volunteering with an organization called Education for All (EFA) Morocco. They have 3 houses in rural Morocco for girls to live in while they study, helping them to complete their education. You can find them online at http://www.efamorocco.org . >>I blog. If you're interested, my travels are blogged at the revamped and rejuvenated http://gretchenmw.wordpress.com . I blog photos, my little snippets of life abroad, at http://gretchen-mw.tumblr.com . My lovely friend, Shanna, and I also occasionally blog at http://proverbs1517.wordpress.com .<<