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• First time hitchhiking/Pandapand
  ...people tell me this before my first solo-hitchhiking experience. This was my first mental block. And you know, the image of a psycho-killer (''Qu'est-ce '''My Sign/My Attitude'''
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• Aimless trajectory
  ...ation / sharing ( including hospitality and hitch hiking ). Running out of choice, getting burned out over the years, took me years to recover from. So I cer ...f friends. In effect, it is not as much the lack of money, but the lack of choice to stay in one place - that lead me to burnout after 5 years on the road.
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• Vietnam
  ...tering their cars, increases the chances immensely to be taken by a car of choice. ...l cut open bottom of my tent and stole my GoPro, tried to comeback and get my wallet, but i shouted like a mad man at him and he didn't come back, that w
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• Lebanon
  ...'': Checkpoint in the north of Lebanon and north-west of Syria, might be a choice if you come from [[Tripoli (Lebanon)|Tripoli]] going towards [[Tartus]], [[ ...trying to stop a taxi or a minibus, even with a sign. However, me (F) and my friend (M) had no problem beeing picked up everywhere we hitchikked, even i
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• The Catastrophically Inefficient Trip
  ...two we got to [[A2 (Germany)|Helmstedt on A2 (62a)]], which was the right choice, even though it meant going quite a few kilometers backwards. However from ...ing, I visited my sister and her boyfriend, who had just become parents of my cute little nephew Collin! The little boy was three days old then. They liv
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• France
  ...internet or a phone, solely because of guilt. Even though I was genuine in my requests I didn't feel happy taking their money, but food is food!'' - Aaro
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• Texas
  ...o, after crossing the whole of Texas with unlicensed drivers (who tend, in my experience, to be either excellent or terrible drivers) and a near-three da ...still a nice gesture. A Texan once told me, "Texans can't say no," and in my experience, I'd say that's mostly true.'' - [[User:Jnadz|Jnadz]] 03:25:10,
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• Seoul
  ...tation and you can probably find a ride going directly to the city of your choice on this way. We went into a car that didn't go far enough and ended up on a
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• Hitch-Hiking by Mario Rinvolucri/chapter-9
  ...entified with middle class blacklegs.... We decided, as a compromise, that my husband should take two neighbours of ours, who were cleaners at a public l ...ment henefit they got had to be left for their families so they had little choice but to walk and to lift. Lorry drivers whose memories go back to this perio
  10 KB (1,743 words) - 22:54, 31 October 2013
• Estonia
  ...s usual in this country, and so getting a personal car usually is a better choice than traveling with a truck in case you value your time a lot. ''Summer 2018 & 2022: It was my starting location and final one, so it's my home country. Some people say that Estonians are mistrustful and I can agre
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• Things to carry
  * A journal and/or camera is always a good choice to keep track of where you've been and who you've met, and to later add use * A multi-tool. My preference is the ''Leatherman Wave''. A companion used the ''Leatherman Bl
  10 KB (1,740 words) - 06:43, 21 October 2018
• Copenhagen
  ...ot has been used regularly by Öresund hitchhikers and was also the winning choice in a Copenhagen-Malmö hitchhiking competition. ...k on the train, so if you're like me, you risk facing a giant fine, but in my case luckily a cute girl checking tickets did nothing. They check your ID w
  10 KB (1,790 words) - 08:37, 30 September 2022
• Sweden
  ...f the lane, and drivers tend to remain on "their" side. If you do have the choice, you should therefore try and avoid crossing over to the other side, as onl ...d walk a bit if you want to have a little dive into the beautiful scenery. My last car to Nordkapp was in the middle of nowhere, on the main road, with 2
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• Random Roads/Submit
  ...hoven]] and on to [[Tilburg]] - this is far enough along my way to give up my good spot, for what might be a poor one further on. We talk about Jackson Pollack who I have never understood (my lover Caroline, now in art school in Barcelona, has offered to explain him,
  29 KB (5,292 words) - 03:19, 8 October 2011
• Iran
  ...0 minutes) the first car stopped. Roads are in good condition. Some days I my average hitch-hiking speed topped 100 km/h!'' ...s really clear and they didn't want to have something else than just touch my arms, legs, hands or any part that they could reach. After getting out of t
  30 KB (5,331 words) - 11:34, 9 September 2022
• Japan
  ...ble but everywhere else is plausible. Have hitched out of cities by waving my thumb, there's a longer wait though. Agree on the use of convenience stores ...n and think about picking you up before they get in their car and make the choice. From a service area with decent traffic, you are very likely to get a ride
  32 KB (5,548 words) - 01:58, 26 December 2023
• Singapore
  ...ticket I would never use departing from SIN, at last minute leaving me no choice ([[User:toortoth|toortoth]]). So make a fake, with a frame from another air
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• Hitchgathering/2011/place
  :People bath and kayak in the lake labeled "my first idea". It's the same water hey. Actually, since the Rhone is flowing, ...' too popular around Scandinavia, but it works. These countries are a good choice if we wish to promote.
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• Top tips
  ...hould pass and asking a driver to put me out at the best spots to continue my route. Works if your phone with Google Maos screenshots wont starts :D ...ide offers by looking drivers straight in the eye. A personal approach, as my panhandler knew, makes one feel less anonymous, more responsible.' (Source:
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