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The time in the woods was the turning point of my so-far-failed-experiment. After passing a bunch of verboten signs and unsure exactly what I was doing, I ended up alone in the woods. Once it got dark, all my fears set in. Every sound I heard sounded like a footstep and every flash of light felt like an approaching threat. I managed to willed will myself unconscious after a few hours of paranoia. When I woke up at 6 in the morning and felt like a new person, I was strangely invigorated. What I had imagined to be threatening in pitch-black darkness, turned out to be a bunch of squirrels and birds. Later I also found that out I would have had a choice in couches to stay in Dresden, but so it goes.

I tried the same location in Dresden again, and this time 15 minutes in and I had a ride halfway to the German/Polish border. A succession of signs led me through [[Wroclaw]], [[Katowice]] and [[Krakow]]. At the rest stops, I waited no more than 5 minutes for the next ride. Overall, the day was glorious...I was speeding down the autobahn, talking to business men and truckers and state attorneys and couples and leftist-magazine editors.