Hitch hiking around the world

[SNLC]

Perhaps this is chat and doesn't belong here? I was unsure, since it is about travel and travel via vehicles (not always though) and chit-chat is just that.

So I met this guy in Baja 3yrs ago. At the time I was on my way to Panama and he was too. I gave him a ride and we ended up camping together for nearly a week in Baja. At the time he didn't know how far he would go or any of that. He did plan to go to South America though.

Fast forward 3yrs, the guy is still doing it and now plans to go around the world!

His name is Cale, he went to college at the UofO in Eugene. Funny but that was my home town and where I grew up. Right out of college he hit the road with only his thumb as a guide. Cale has down the "dirt bag" thing to a science. So much so that when I met him he was funding the entire trip on $2000. He travels light and only spends money on food or on something he is required to spend it on, ie entry into a country. He does even take a camera with him, rather he draws. Check out his work on his blog, it is very good!

Some people may not agree with this type of travel but you got to give him credit for a very adventurous spirit!

Any ways, I thought I would share his blog with you folks. Cale's writing is very good, his drawings equally as good and to me he is an inspiration. Perhaps he will inspire other people to just get out there and see the world.

http://www.velabas.com/hitchhiking-around-the-world.php

Cheers

 

[MANUCHAO]

Thats awesome.. I got plans for SA with my rig too, but often I think of just getting my alpine pack on my back n living the HOBO life... any way you cut it.. it would be an adventure...!!!

 

[Thecriscokid]

Talk about going with the flow...
I did my share of hitch hiking when I drove a VW camper...
Met some great people, though I only approached "travelers" for a ride

 

[Surfy]

In Switzerland you dont seem hitchhiker anymore...

My last experiences as student in germany (many years ago)- was too - that the people stopped to take people with them.. I had to wait for hours..

There was to many horror films, to many cases in the tv and newspapers - that it is pretty uncommen to travel this way.

So for such a worldtrip - i would avoid the center of europe

We meet some students (2female, 1male) who did that in botswana - there it is no problem to travel this way.

Why not just walking, or doing it by bicyle? We meet too a guy from eastern europe in congo, who was riding on a bicyle. Thats an adventure

Surfy

 

[SNLC]

Why not just walking, or doing it by bicyle? We meet too a guy from eastern europe in congo, who was riding on a bicyle. Thats an adventure

Read his blog some and you will see why he hitch hikes rather than other modes of transportation. There is a very specific reason he picks to hitch hike. Also, he does do a lot of walking.

 

[forestderp]

I have been tempted many times to do this. I have a couple friends that hitched through mexico for 5 months with nothing more than a guitar and their voices to carry them along.

 

[45Kevin]

In Switzerland you dont seem hitchhiker anymore...

Ha, too true.

In the '70s I hitch hiked around Europe. I got a ride from a German to the edge of Berne and walked almost all the way across the city before I got a ride with another German.

Back in Germany, the further north I went the harder it was to get a ride.

I finally got an Interrail pass in Lubek.

Good time though.

 

[skidplate]

This is just my opinion, but what type of people are willing to get into a car with a stranger and what type of of person is willing to let a total stranger get into their car? ..Anyone hearing "Riders on the storm" by Jim Morrison?

 

[mandinga]

This is just my opinion, but what type of people are willing to get into a car with a stranger and what type of of person is willing to let a total stranger get into their car? ..Anyone hearing "Riders on the storm" by Jim Morrison?

That is a very American way to think. It's not wrong its just how we think. We are a developed nation, everyone is expected to have a house, car, dog, ect.
He explains all that locations time of day and so on.
I once picked up a hitcher east of Albuquerque and dropped in him in Amarillo. No harm and he made for conversation. I have read the entire site and this man is looking at life a different way, its not wrong just different. Some people are drifters and that's exactly what this guy is doing just cruisin' through life at the moment. Very truly inspiring.