I'm starting my hitchhiking journey from Athens to Krosno, Poland, where I'll volunteer. After taking public transport to a good hitchhiking spot (I hope so), I plan to head to Skopje or Sofia. I’ve prepared signs for my destinations 🧐 and I'm looking for advice on routes and safety tips, etc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 😅

Planning to do my first hitchhiking trip ever this mid December, looking to do an easy one from Riga to Tallin, solo traveling, any advice and tips?

Can't stand ppl waving at me, had ppl flip me off, swerve into me, throw shit at me, ppl trying to rape or buy me, everyone stares with that same shitty look on their face. Sometimes im sitting there for hours or days. Most ppl say I'm some sort of fucking muderer or convict on the run. Fuck, i get the cops called on me for "looking suspicious" and most the time cops are happy to give me a ride.

Hi all!

I'm flying down to Vegas from Canada in mid November and plan on meeting up with some friends who are driving from the Grand Canyon back up to Canada. I really don't want to fork out the cash for a rather expensive bus and am thinking of hitchhiking. I've hitched rides around eastern Europe which was amazing and just wondering if anyone has experience or can say how difficult or realistic it'll be in the south US.

Thanks!

On 15 October it was 13 years ago that Benoit Grieu disappeared

Hi everyone, I would like to ask if anyone has hitchhiked in Turkey, Caucasus, Central Asia (most likely Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan), and China recently. If so, can you tell me what the border situations are? As an EU citizen, I can travel to most of the countries above visa-free, but will they ask for anything specific at the border? Like accommodation and means of departure? Also, I have just looked into getting a visa to China and it looks like they want a whole travel itinerary, proof of the accommodations and my (aeroplane) tickets for arrival and departure from the country. How do I tackle this when I am hitchhiking and obviously have nothing booked, especially not a flight? Also, as I understood I can apply for a visa from a country different from my country of origin (that would work for me quite well since I don't know when exactly will I reach China), but in that case, I need to provide some kind of reasoning for why am I staying at the given country (like proof of residence or so). Recommendations for places to visit are also welcome! Feel free to answer in a private message if that works better and thank you very much for any input!

Hi there!

This march, me and my friends will be hitchhiking to Budapest for charity. If you have done this before or have any advice for us we would greatly appreciate it :)

Hey all!

I’m from Europe and planning a hitchhiking adventure across the U.S. next year, with a friend and maybe even trying a bit of train hopping. I’m looking to really experience the country in a unique way, but I know I need to be smart about it.

A few questions for anyone with experience:

1.	How hard is it to get rides these days? Do people usually stop, or is it more difficult now?

2. Any regions/states I should avoid or be extra careful in? I’m just looking to avoid any unnecessary risks.

3. Tips for train hopping? I have already done a lot of research but further advice from someone with experience would be helpful.

4. Anything you wish you’d known before your first hitchhiking trip/train hopping trip

I’m excited for the journey, but I want to be prepared. Thanks so much for any advice!

I’ve been travelling four months staying in hostels and making new friends in trying to cure myself and the progress is very slow but never zero. Hitchhiking alone for days sounds super insane to me and I have told myself one hundred reasons not to do so as I can actually afford the flight ticket.

I don’t know what I want to get from posting my fear here, maybe just some words of encouragement? Thank you.

I need to hitchhike Vienna to Brno tomorrow. It’s relatively short distance and well connected. But I’m worried a bit cause I have to go alone and I guess well is that ever safe as a woman?

Or any tips? Pls

I hear it from online forums that it is perfectly safe and police or highway workers very rarely mind even tho it is illegal. On hitchmap.com, there are many recommendations at péages and it all seemed to work out for them.

So, I tried it out and got kicked off by police the first time I did it, and even on an entry péage, Not one in the middle of the highway.

Is it just bad luck or should I avoid péages? Does anyone have experience with hitchhiking on french highways?

Hi all,

I would love to hitchhike the Diamond Path in Minas Gerais in Brasil next year. I can't really find any articles online by people who have experienced it while hitch hiking.

Does any of you have experience in hitch hiking that route?

Is it easy? Is it safe?

Any tips or insights are welcome!

Hello! Anyone have experience hitchhiking in the Middle Eastern countries? Especially Irak and Iran, Pakistan too. I know there's a lot of tension because of the current situation. Yet, I'd like to see the places aside/away from the horror stories.

Any (safety) tips or tricks for example? Good places to see, stay or things to do?

I am a solo female traveller. Young appearance and blond. I don't know if this info makes any difference, yet at the same time it would.

Thank you

I find myself pushing 50, kids near grown, hitched around Europe in my 20's, had an E1Eleven form gave me Accident and Emergency hospital cover within Europe. I'm thinking I might hit the road, hitch China. Anyone any thoughts on how to access a doctor abroad when money is hand to mouth busking/Street performance based...no income...not just China...Afghanistan? Russia? The Americas? Not specific but generally abroad hitchhiking around, hoboing it...please and thank you for your service.

Anyone know how to hitchhike from dieppe to Paris?

I am planning a trip for East Africa. I want to start from either Ethiopa or Kenya, then through Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. Once I'm in Tanzania I will know if I wanna go further or pack up and go home. My main concerns are handling visas and the governments desire for return tickets. When I fly into Kenya for example, they are (supposedly) going to want to see a return ticket. However I do not want to have a return ticket since idk when I am leaving. The best thing I can think of as of now is to buy a cheap ticket that just goes from Kenya to Tanzania or something and then just not board the plane and eat the ticket price. However, is it possible to get a cheaper bus ticket and show customs I have a bus ticket leaving the country? Also, as I am hitching through a border, is the new country going to want to see a ticket showing I am leaving the country? If they are, I don't know how to deal with this logistical challenge yet.

Another lesser concern is timing visas. There is an East Africa Visa that works for Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, I will probably just buy this before hand. However, once I get to Tanzania, will I be able to buy a visa at the border or do I need to figure out how to get one before hand? If I am getting one before hand, I will be in Burundi most likely and I will not be able to have it mailed to my house obviously because I won't be there. I could buy the Tanzania Visa before I leave but since I don't have a set itinerary, it might expire before I get there. Any knowledgeable people out there that can alleviate these concerns?

Thank you!

My friend and I are doing a charity hitchhike race to Paris soon and we were wondering if any of you folk had any tips for the quickest way to do it, as it’s a race. Our current ideas are

1. Get a train/bus/hitchhike into London and ask if there’s any spare seats on the Eurostar that we could get on for free. If not ask someone to buy us a ticket. Does anyone have any experience with this? Do you know if there’s any point trying to do this or will we just get turned away? We do have documentation to show that it’s for charity.

2. Get a train/bus/hitchhike to Portsmouth and get a ferry from there. Does anyone have tips to get onto these for free?

3. Finally get a train/bus/hitchhike to Dover and get onto a ferry. Does anyone know which option would be quicker (also considering the time it usually takes between rides as Bath to Dover is a long way!)

Any advice would be appreciated!!

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• Getting from Stockholm to Gelibolu in 70:55 in 1990 in just four rides, and Bulgarian customs confiscating the three big cheeses that the driver picked up from relatives in the middle of the night, when leaving the country?
• Two consecutive rides with women, one of 2,217.0 km and one of 406.9 km, the former still the longest ride with a woman, the latter, the distance took only 2:30 to cover, still the ride with the highest average speed with a woman, and the 35th fastest ever?
• A ride in an Audi RS6 covering a F1 race distance in an F1 race time, 304 km in 1:33?
• A ride where the speedo momentarily reached 300 km/h?
• Rides on motorbikes?
• A ride on a horse-drawn cart?
• A ride in a Ferrari, or just over a month ago, in a rose-gold Bentley?
• Completing the set of rides with drivers from the 15 old USSR countries?
• Sitting on an old engine-block covered with an old carpet for most of a ride, as there wasn't a front-seat in the van?
• Rides with football internationals, the late Roger Albersen (N), Nicklas Pedersen (DK), Ricky van Wolfswinkel (NL)?
• A driver falling asleep in the old Yugoslavia, and parking the car on its side on the crash-barrier in the middle of the motorway?
• Hitching from Athens to the Netherlands in 68:44 in 1985, partly in the company of an attractive blonde Finnish woman, and then doing the same a year later in just 42:06 , but then single-thumb-edly as a scruffy male? ;)
• Getting a ride from an Indian guy from just before the NL-D border, and ending up driving him the whole way to the last petrol station before Warszawa, with a free hotelroom thrown in for good measure?
• Getting a ride off the ferry in Calais with a German engineer taking some rocket parts to ESA, with him telling me casually that the value of the load was about DM 15,000,000?

More? Just shout!

There's now a big hole in the fence, so getting in is for now really easy, no more climbing the fences! It's a 10 or so minute walk from the railway station, and one of the best places to get a ride towards Belgistan, the Netherlands, and if you're really lucky, Brexitania.

I will get my 6,000th recorded ride, hopefully to Luxembourg, but more likely to the petrol station in Jabbeke.

A friend and I are doing a hitchhike to paris for charity with the University of Bath on Friday the 25th OCT. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help us at all?

https://thesubath.enthuse.com/pf/will-greg This is our charity page

When the "How long does it take?" question pops up, my standard answer is to suggest to take the time suggested by Google Maps, and double it.

But how true is this?

Well, the proof is in the pudding and so I added a few lines of REXX to one of my existing execs and had a look at my per-day data, which now covers 1,075 days on the road. My data for each day includes the distance, true driving time, starting and ending times, total waiting time, time of in-ride stops (petrol, meals, etc), in-ride sleeping time, time gained or lost by crossing time zones, and non-hitching (idle) time, which is a bit iffy as you might consider it to be part and parcel of the elapsed time. But we can discuss that here!

Taking in all of the above, the added code reads the daily summary file, extracts the times, and spits out the file again, with two additional columns, the first one excluding the idle time, the second on including it.

And guess what, if I exclude the idle times, I spend 60.84% of the elapsed time moving, if I include the idle time, that percentage drops down to 53.71% and lo-and-behold, there's our "double the time suggested by Google Maps" answer.

Started in Ottawa and now in Edmonton, I haven't even seen one other hitchhiker on my way.

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i imagine it’s possible and someone here has done it before. what problems would i run into? is it dangerous? should i go north, middle or south?