My first bad experience while hitchhiking
I have been travelling and #hitchhiking for a while now. Nothing bad had ever happened to me on my travels. Until recently.
Hitchhiking with a folding (touring) bike. And other stuff. Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@HitchbikeRevolution
I have been travelling and #hitchhiking for a while now. Nothing bad had ever happened to me on my travels. Until recently.
Many people hitchhike. It's nothing too special. And the main reasons for doing it are quite obvious I guess: It is exciting. You meet new and very different people. You don't pollute the planet. You don't have to spend money. You have someone to talk to while doing distances. Or you just enjoy the general randomness that accompanies #hitchhiking . All of these aspects are really great. But one big benefit is often neglected or highly underestimated: The option to learn and practice a foreign language.
This is going to be my first try to give a more or less coherent picture of #hitchhiking with a folding bike.
I am sure that there are thousands (probably millions) of people who have been thinking about taking a folding bike on their hitchhiking adventures. But never did. Because, like me, they didn't find a lot of inspiring information or experiences shared online (there is a bit of information on hitchwiki). Little information makes it difficult to estimate how much fun #hitchbiking is. This short video might give you a nice first idea: https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/8c8f03f1-d5a4-4005-ada8-ebc896136d38 (Spoiler: it is a lot of fun!)
Maybe useful to mention at the beginning: I've been using Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@HitchbikeRevolution) for micro-blogging over the last two month. So if you are directly longing for more info you can have a look there. As there is a limit of 500 characters per post I mostly share small bits and pieces. Whatever I find useful mentioning in order to give a picture about hitchhiking with a folding (touring) bike. Some thoughts. Some pictures. Some links. Or whatever I find worth sharing (or just funny) in the very moment. But these short posts can be of course superficial. For longer posts I was searching for an open source blogging tool. After asking on Mastodon someone pointed me here, to write.as – so here we go: