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“In Europe, it’s easier to feel alone ... nobody really sees you.” Jeremy Marie
• 3 shirts
• 2 treasures
• 1 sweatshirt
• 4 socks
• 2 pairs of shoes (one for city and others to walk long distances)
• 2 pairs of boxer shorts
• 1 coat
• 1 raincoat
• 1 scarf
• 1 digital camera
• 1 sleeping bag
• 1 book (“Simple Genius”)
Track his trip at www.lembas.ovh.org
Take a good look at your thumb. What do you see? Jeremy Marie found his answer in the Egyptian pyramids, Sudan’s deserts, Ukrainian mountains and exuberant spring in Nicaragua.
With a $7 daily budget, Marie has crossed 51,550 kilometers just by hitchhiking, a distance that is greater than Earth’s circumference.
Marie started his journey in his native Caen, France, in October 2007. The original planned length of the trip was two years, but luck has been Marie’s friend and now his return is scheduled for 2012.
It’s been a year since Marie’s seen his parents, twin sister and friends, but he says he doesn’t feel lonely.
“In Europe it’s easier to feel alone; everybody is so individualistic, worried for their own problems that nobody really sees you,” he says. “In the countries I’ve visited, people are warm, give you food and shelter. It’s not possible to feel lonely.”
Important tools
The most important tools for such long trips are not a jackknife or a GPS. They are seven basic simple phrases like “thank you,” “hi,” “my name is Jeremy Marie. I’m 25 and I’m French,” as well as an explanation about what his journey entails. In every country, he asks somebody to help him to translate all this information.
He also caries a journal and a digital camera, which had to be “redecorated” with masking tape to look unusable so nobody would wish to steal it from him.
Another view
Across the poorest nations of the world, where he’s been, from Sudan to Belize, Marie has been challenged by adverse circumstances.
“Governments are destroying their own countries by destroying their people,” he says.
Marie is going to the U.S., then Canada and Alaska. After that, he will return to Mexico and South America.
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