My phone started buzzing with messages from our Whatsapp group chat between all the riders heading to Morocco. So, this news was a bit of a shock to me personally.Īs with most things coming from the White House the details surrounding the travel restrictions were not clear but panic set in. It was hard to navigate the media surrounding the whole thing. Up until this point the Coronavirus had been steadily in the news but felt mostly contained with only a few cases outside of the epicenter. It was exactly 18 hours from the time my flight out of the country was scheduled to depart when the White House hosted a press conference announcing that 'due to the rapid spread of Covid-19 aka Coronavirus travel restriction from EU countries to USA would be in place effective within 48 hours'. Little did I know, it would end up being the greatest adventure of my life. F*** Yesssss! Just the kind of trip I was looking for. Some friends of mine, and girls I admire very much had booked a trip with Moto Aventures & Sideburn Magazine to Morocco for a 5 day off-road tour. I wanted to prove to myself that I could get back to where I once was. An adventure, a challenge, an experience. I was coming off a major injury that had me off my bike for a year and feeling like half the rider I once was. Photos by Jenny Linquist, Caylee Hankins and My IPhone. It is however, a story of 8 women on an off-road adventure through Morocco while the world falls apart around them. This is not a guide and it was not written about the apocalypse. Let me start with a little disclaimer: the title of this story is inaccurate and deceiving.

Thrill of the chase a rocky riverbed