User:N0id

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n0id is a hitchhiker, currently living in Warsaw, Poland. Used to live and grow up in Aachen, Germany. At the moment he is EVS volunteer, meaning he has a lot of for time surfing the web during the work and hitting Polish roads in his free time and on weekends.

About

He hitchhiked for the first time at the age of 14? out of an emergcency: he had missed the bus and was going to be to late for going shopping with his mom. Then started to hitchhike regularly in summer 2007 in order to faster beat the distance of the 20km from summer job to Aachen. Later did his first longer trip after New Year 2008 from Berlin back home (partly) out of an emergency: he was out of money after partying a lot. Totally got addicted and hitchhiked a lot on German highways. He finally did his first trip outside Germany, to Prag in autumn 2008. Really enjoyed taking part in the German hitchhiking race in 2009. After receiving his Abitur hitchhiked all around Europe during a 2-months trip.

Hitchhiking

n0id hitchiked in and through the following countries:

worth mentioning are the following trips:

  • to Prag over Munich, Nurnberg starting from Aachen in 2008 (first hitchhiking experience outside of Germany)
  • to Karlsruhe and over Switzerland to Liechtenstein as part of the hitchhiking race, followed by a short excursion to the north of Italy with Quarim
  • all the way North-East to Helsinki via the Roskilde festival in Denmark, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn and again South-West to Tangier via Berlin, Luxembourg, Taizé, Marseille, Barcelona, Cordoba during the 2-months trip in summer 2009
  • from Warsaw to Paris stopping in Berlin, in Aachen for Christmas and on the way back in Utrecht and in Ratzeburg for New Year's Eve in 2009/2010

Trivia

  • The first ride ever was with a couple listening to Jonny Cash
  • My longest ride was from the ferry port in Algeciras with a very tired driver going to Corsica. He let me drive a few hours. After about 16h driving the threw me out 100km south of Barcelona. I had had bad vibes from the beginning on, but wanted to get out of Spain. Still the ride was over 1000km.
  • My longest non-stop hitchhiked distance was 2500km (same trip from Algeciras to close to Aachen over Paris with 5 drivers in 42h)
  • Hitched with a cigarette trafficker from Ukraine to Poland
  • Once a friend and me got dropped at the brand-newly built interchange Kreuz Oberpfälzer Wald between Nürnberg and the Czech border with almost no traffic at all and not even mobile reception. Luckily a car missed the interchange exit and drove backwards on the highway enabling us communicate our situation and get out of there after half an hour and less than 10 cars
  • So far collected 45€ (2 drivers giving each 20€, 1 other giving 5€) while hitchhiking
  • the lowest temperature while on the road was about -20°C in Poland
  • the highest temperature was over 40°C in Spain
  • the longest wait was in February 2010 on a cold and windy Sunday at the service station Michendorf in the direction of Warsaw. After about 10 hours of waiting me and my female friend finally found a Lithuanian driver who picked us up. Luckily it was a direct lift to Warsaw, where we arrived the next day at 5:30am
  • hitchbiked with a foldable bike from Warsaw to Poznan and back. Loved it!