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For hitchhiking to Hamburg prepare a cardboard sign with "HH" written on it, which is the license plate sign for cars from Hamburg and understood widely. "HRO" stands for Rostock by the way.
==== Option 1 - Kurt-Schumacher-Damm ====If you want This spot is nearer to hitchhike towards [[Hamburg]] or [[Schwerin]] Berlin than Rasthof Stolper Heide and includes much less time spent walking and on the A24 it is the best to train. To get here go with the U6 towards ''Alt-Tegel'' and get off at ''Kurt-Schumacher-Platz'' and then start walking towards the motorway. About 2 minutes away from the U-Bahn station there is a ''Jet'' petrol station. You can either ask the drivers who stop there or stand at the road right before it. (Update January 2009: Spot is open again!)
* [[User:MaxHermens]] says: It's best to ask drivers if they are going on the motorway, and if so, if they can take you to the above mentioned Stolperheide. Then you can avoid the long walk and start hitching straight away.
==== Option 2 - Rasthof Stolper Heide ====The hitchhiking-spot in Henningsdorf '''Rasthof Stolper Heide''' ([http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?place=2153 map]) is ideal in the best option sense that you end up starting to reach hitchhike directly from a gasstation in which there are a fair few people heading in direction [[Hamburg]], [[Rostock]] or [[Scandinavia]]. You are going to have to go on a 2 km walk in total. Get the train to S-Bahn station ''Heiligensee'' (S25 towards Henningsdorf, EUR 2.60 ticket), walk down Ruppiner Chaussee northwards (left when coming out of the station about 300 meters and turn right on an asphalt walking path (− there's a sign saying "Berliner Mauerweg"). Follow the path for 10-15 minutes. Cross the bridge over the motorway and turn immediately left down the little path - you can stay close to the motorway in order not to lose it and quickly you will see a pathway that you can follow to this Rasthof. There is a small fence to the left of the path which you have to jump at some point before you reach the station. The easiest place is probably to the right a green fenced inclosure about half way to the service station. You can easily get a direct ride to [[Hamburg]] from here, and with a little patience to Rostock. If you want to catch a certain boat in Rostock or have other basic time constraints, please note that getting to this spot from somewhere like Kreuzberg och Friedrichshain in the centre of Berlin can take two hours or even longer.
A (maybe not so good) very close-by spot that saves you the 2 km walk: Get off one station earlier, ''Schulzendorf'' (S25 towards Henningsdorf, EUR 2.60 ticket). Get out from the front of the train, and out of the station, follow Ruppiner Chaussee north, and take the first right (Schulzendorfer Straße). And there you are, on the motorway access ramp, 5 min walk from the station. However, at this spot the access ramp is quite narrow, and there is not a good place for cars to stop safely. There is also a curve in the road, and cars are traveling quickly, so this spot might be dangerous for you and the drivers. You can take ''any'' ride. If the car doesn't go your way, he can drop you off at the petrol station "Rasthof Stolper Heide" mentioned above, some kilometers up the road.
You can also wait opposite of ''McD's'' for a lift. Sometimes you will meet other hitchhikers here, too. If someone offers a lift "only" to a gas station on the motorway ("Linumer Bruch" for instance) take it, since from a motorway gas station it is very easy to get another lift.
==== For [[Scandinavia]] bound hitchhikers ====
The ferries that are useable by hitchhikers are Scandline's 2 ferries, the other ones charge per passenger whereas these charge per car making the ride on the ferry free for the hitchhiker. One of them, recommended by this article when hitching from [[Berlin]] leaves from a ferry terminal 10 kilometers north of [[Rostock]] to [[Gedser]] in [[Denmark]] and the other one, from [[Puttgarden]] to [[Rodby]], also in [[Denmark]], sees more traffic and runs more often. For going to [[Copenhagen]] or other places in [[Denmark]] from [[Berlin]] the [[Rostock]] ferry works rather well. It does however have the problem of only leaving every 2 hours or less. Also for any [[Sweden]] bound hitchhikers it has the issue that rather few people on this ferry are going to [[Sweden]] so mostly you will find yourself dropped off at a gasstation before [[Copenhagen]] from where you will have to find yourself a lift to [[Sweden]].
In hitchhiker [[Theo]]'s personal [[Berlin]] --> [[Sweden]] commuting experience it is generally faster to go from Berlin to Sweden by using the Puttgarden ferry than the Rostock ferry. The time invested in getting to the main highway going north from [[Hamburg]] and [[Lubeck]] to ''Puttgarden'' is well-rewarded seeing as getting a ride by standing with a [[Sweden]] sign in ''Puttgarden'' before the ticket both or from one of the gasstations before saves you hustle time by not having to hitchhike at all in [[Denmark]] by using only transit traffic. The next good place to hitchhike if you are going in direction [[Stockholm]] or [[Gothenburg]] is after or before we people get on/off the ferry in [[Helsingor]]/[[Helsingborg]] and getting a ride from ''Puttgarden'' to there is pretty straightforward.
=== North East towards [[Szczecin]], [[Gdańsk|Gdansk]] (Danzig) {{Autobahn|11}} ===
