It usually pays to plan ahead (by usually I mean pretty much always). While travelling last year after the World Cup & Gringoing around Peru I didn’t plan at all… and it worked out great.
Case and point was when John & I stumbled across $499 flights from Sao Paulo to Paris with a catch: we had to spend a week in Morocco. Given neither of us had been to Morocco/Africa before we were pretty into it. Then our friend Ian decided to meet us because why not get your camel licence in the Sahara.
Fast forward many months and I finally put together a quick vid. from our trip. Morocco is sweet.