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::I totally agree with what you wrote, Grata. In total we were waiting 4 hours for a ride in Alta, in the middle we decided to hitch back South instead of to Nordkapp. Not sure how to work your writings back into the article. I did [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Norway&curid=1545&diff=41111&oldid=41100 have a go at Norway] though. Feel free to make it (even?) less optimistic. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 22:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
What you did in the introduction works good. I think everything is said. Make it even less optimistic would be easy, but that's not the point. I was just curious about people saying that they wait an average of 10 minutes for a ride in Norway. After three years hitchhiking, those craps give me a good laugh, but I wander if anybody actually believe that. I don't want people going for their first hitch of their life expecting a ride in the 10 first minutes and then giving up definitely hitchhiking.
You waited 4 hours in Alta? What about that:
In Grong, my driver dropped me at 2pm, I had a lift the day after at noon. In Mosjoen, I waited from 10am, to the day after at 18pm. Plus this guy who jumped off his car to argue with me, fist up, 'cause I was stepping slightly on the road to hitchhike. And the awful contact with people ... even if you try to look as harmless, clean, friendly, happy, non-serial-killer-like as possible, it's always the same look in their eyes. I wrote something about that, it goes like that:
"You look like a good guy, but you don't gimme a ride, you even don't dare try a smile." (to sing on a jazzy tune)
So, there is a lot to say about hitchhiking in Norway, but still, I'm glad to be able to give tips and sharing experiences, but I don't want to affraid people and stop them to give it a try. I think the 10-minutes-waiting-for-a-ride's legend should disappear from such a great database.
