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Bordeaux is encircled by a ring road (''rocade'' in french), a fast dual-carriageway bypass, with no places to stop and pick up hitchhikers, and peages are far and not easy to reach by walking or public transport. This makes leaving Bordeaux very tricky, although not impossible. It is best to hitchhike on the approach roads to the ring road in the direction you wish to travel. It is advised to avoid going into the town centre.
=== North towards [[Tours]], [[Paris]], East towards [[Clermont-Ferrand]], [[Lyon]] ===
To reach the gas station on the ring road/''rocade'':
For the south one can use the first service station seen from the pedestrian bridge.
=== East towards [[Clermont-Ferrand]], [[Lyon]] ===
A big outward road leads from the city center over bridges over the Dordogne, over the ring motorway and later becomes the motorway A 89 (E 70) to the east. Shortly after it crosses the ring there is a good spot: There is a junction, where all the eastbound traffic from the ring joins. One may ask waiting drivers at the traffic lights or stand beside the road after that, because it is no motorway yet. Drivers can see you there, go slow because normally everyone has to stop at the traffic lights, and there is a broad hard shoulder, where one can safely stop and continue. Few hundret meters further there is also a small dedicated fuel station on that road.
The tramway A goes out of the city center to near that place. From the stop ''Buttinière'' it is about two kilometres along the big alley (Avenue Carnot).
=== South towards [[Biarritz]], [[Toulouse]], [[Barcelona]] ([[Spain]]) ===
