Travel makes you smarter.
Bernd joined us and we played guitar and bocce ball and had more great food and used some good old-school Egyptian log-rolling technology to move some heavy-ass cement sink thru the barn to the outside and also some heavy wine press.
After we walked out of the bar with a warm farewell from Christian, we heard a car horn and turned to see Ann Kathrine who's house we were to stay at in France. She just happened to be driving thru the village. Boy, when you're on a good luck streak, the synchronicities just keep piling [...]
Christian, where are you? Layed in bed nice and late and had a good breakfast of oranges, museli & coffee and then we packed and had great salads. We started flying our “A-7” (freeway) sign after pizza. On a very busy street two younger kids stopped for us right in traffic and we watched as [...]
Thursday we met Bernd's friend and went drank some wine and hung out down by the river and then went to some really cool jazz show . Friday we shopped at the farmer's market below the apartment and in the afternoon we went to Pep's bar and played with some really great guitar players . [...]
We started in La Jonquera Spain when we got a ride well over 400 kilometers from the great Zlotko of Croatia in “Hotel Volvo,” another big rig truck with good music and great conversation . He lost members of his family because of the war so he drives from Germany to France every two weeks [...]
Hitchhiking is known as “autostop” in Spain and other parts of the world and cardboard makes for good signs to fly so motorists can know where you are headed. Today we bussed, hitched and walked almost to the French border. And just as the sun was setting we found a camping place run by a [...]
On the 14th, we made it through the night without any trouble other than the rain and we eventually got aggressive with our hitching moved from the exit ramp and went up directly on the freeway . It really is the best place to hitch, despite the obvious dangers… there are just so so so [...]
This morning in Madrid we walked past our crappy hitching petrol station and directly onto the highway: desperate times call for desperate measures and although it was fairly dangerous to stop a car on the higway to let us get in, so many cars were passing us that the numbers worked in our favor and [...]
Got a lift from a couple of Brits in an old camper van and from an Ecuadorian in a new minivan to the the bus station in Madrid . We walked to the train station but it had just closed so we got out to another petrol station on the way out of town . [...]
Zoe’s cold-nosed fluffy alarm clock We got stuck on a really bad freeway interchange exit ramp in Jaèn and we could not get a hitch. Some nice guy with his wife in the passenger seat and small children in child-seats in the back stopped for us to tell us that we were standing in a [...]