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<map lat='49.407901688171044' lng='8.670186996459961' zoom='14' view='0' float='right' />==Hitching Hitchhiking out==

===Direction North, South, West{{Autobahn|5}} {{Autobahn|656}} ===When you are leaving Heidelberg, you might probably want to go to the [[A5 (Germany)|A5]]. There is a feeder road to the A5, starting right in the town center, which makes it some kind of 'town exit' - Any car Many cars leaving the city for the motorway will pass by.To get there from the train station, just walk into ''Gneisenaustr.'' in west direction for like 200m.

===Direction South (A5){{Autobahn|5}} ===Follow ''Ringstraße'' in direction to [[Speyer]]. After crossing the rail-tracks and walking through a bridge you'll see a petrol station where you can talk to drivers directly or make it easier , furthermore there is plenty of space for cars to stop. Note that all the cars go south here! You can also ask people just to stopdrop you off at Raststätte [[Hardtwald West]], 5 km south on the motorway.

Raststätte "Hardtwald" is a good place for north and south. Some 200 meters north of the place there's a tunnel under the highway, making it possible to change to the other side. You can reach the petrol station by public transport: Take a "S-Bahn" (suburban train, blackrideable) to St. Ilgen/Sandhausen and from there Bus 725 to "Lebenshilfe", the second leg can also be done by foot (exactly 2.9km from the S-Bahn stop to Hardtwald) and you'll pass a REWE with diveable dumpsters. From the "Lebenshilfe" stop it's five to ten minutes if you don't turn into the nature protection area on the left.  Another way to get to the rest area via public transit/walking rather than waiting for a ride to it: take public transit (Stadt-Bahn or bus) to the Kirchheim neighborhood at the south end of Heidelberg, and walk Southwest through the public country roads which are mostly used by cyclists and farmers. The walk is around an hour from the center of Kirchheim. You can probably get a ride in under an hour from the above mentioned petrol station but I prefer the walk because it guarantees that I will be starting already on the Autobahn. [http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Ringstra%C3%9Fe,+69115+Heidelberg,+Heidelberg,+Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg,+Deutschland&sll=51.124213,10.546875&sspn=11.539375,29.355469&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,49.403642,8.682076&ll=49.402037,8.678856&spn=0.023347,0.057335&z=14&om=1 On Petrol station on google maps] == Personal Experience == ''I had a hard time getting out of Heidelberg, after one of the most successful days of hitchhiking going from Berlin to Heidelberg in one afternoon. I tried multiple spots, starting at Ringstraße and proceeding toward the Autobahn directly, but there isn't a great spot later on as it turns into a higwhay and the sidewalk ends. Standing by the busstop with my thumb out, I was flipped off but also given two thumbs up within a few minutes. A couple picked me up after nearly four hours of hitchhiking (including switching spots, etc), and drove me all the way through the beautiful views of the black forest right before the Swiss border.'' -- [[User:Vinteuil|Vinteuil]] == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{nomadwiki}}  {{IsIn|Baden-Württemberg}}