User:Guaka/log

late 1990s

• failed attempt to hitchhike from Maastricht to Paris, ended up in Liege waiting for ages

2003

• failed attempt to hitchhike from Istria to Venice, got many rides but no map, and ended up 5 kilometers away from where we started

2004

Winter

I got sick of taking Eurolines buses and decided to go hitchhiking another try. I had also met Robino, who was about to move to Barcelona.

• Paris - Barcelona, made some classic hitchhike mistakes, spent the night in a hotel room between Toulouse and Perpignan (much cheaper than Eurolines still :)
• Barcelona - Paris, in merely 14 hours, got a ride at the Peage South from Lyon straight to my home in Paris.

Spring

• to Berlin
• back and forth to the Netherlands

...

2005

• Berlin - Nijmegen
• hitchhiking at night in Bamako, Mali, once with 2 people, another time with 4 people.
• Paris - Normandy
• Frankfurt - Nuth
• Hamburg - Copenhagen - Malmo - Gothenburg - Oslo - Trondheim - Umea
• Vaasa - Helsinki
• Tallinn - Riga - somewhere in Latvia - Kaunas - Vilnius
• Vilnius - Warsaw, picked up by crazy Italian, with whom I continued to Tarnow and Cracow
• Cracow - Berlin
• Berlin - Braunschweig - Amsterdam

2006

• Montevideo - Cordoba - Santiago de Chile
• Concepcion - somewhere in Argentina
• in Ecuador
• Montreal - New York
• San Francisco - Quincy - Ashland - Portland (Oregon)
• Eugene - San Francisco - Santa Cruz - Los Angeles
• Auckland - Wellington
• Wellington (actually from ferry on the other side) - Nelson
• Nelson - Christchurch and back and much more around the South Island of New Zealand

2007

• more New Zealand
• Sydney - Melbourne (along the coast)
• Chiang Rai - Laos - Kunming - Hong Kong
• London - Antwerpen
• in Italy

...

2008

• Bloemendaal (beach) to Haarlem
• Amsterdam - Utrecht, with a Eurolines bus

May

• Nuth - Antwerpen
• Antwerpen - Amsterdam

• Amsterdam - Berlin, Berlin Beach Camp 2008, unfortunately I was really sick in Berlin.

June

• Amsterdam - Avignon - 14 hours, one ride straight from Luxembourg to Avignon, of which I drove everything south from Nancy myself (and got flashed once).
• Avignon - Paris - German trucker picked me up at the Peage South from Lyon, but then drove towards Strassbourg, should have refused, ended up having to go towards Besancon and walk 5 km to go to a gas station on the other side of the highway, then met guy doing a rally from Saint-Petersburg to Beijing.
• Paris - Antwerpen (evening, rain, stayed at my favourite place there) - Essen (BeVolunteer General Assembly)
• Amsterdam - Nuth
• June 14th: Nijmegen - Amsterdam

July - August - September

• Amsterdam - Hamburg - Stockholm - Alta - Helsinki - Tallinn - Riga - Vilnius - Kaunas - Warsaw - Berlin - Trento - Garda Lake - Venezia
• Trento - Nuth - Amsterdam
• Antwerpen - Paris - Nijmegen - Amsterdam
• Amsterdam - Nuth
• Antwerpen - Amsterdam
• Amsterdam - Budapest - Bucuresti - Istanbul - Gaziantep - Aleppo - Damascus - Amman - West Bank - Jerusalem