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Here you can ask questions, remarks, requests about hitchhiking or about the Hitchwiki! Please check out Multilingual coordination for stuff related to Hitchwiki in other languages.

How long?

I'm 15, and a highschool student, and I was wondering how long it's possible to keep hitchhiking. I would love to do it for atleast a year. Also, how expensive is it?

There are even older people how are still hitchhiking, like Irv Thomas. There are no limits. And hitchhiking itself is usually free, in most countries. Sometimes you might spend a little on bus/tram tickets, but that's not even neccessary. --MrTweek 10:12, 6 August 2008 (CEST)
Also check out hospitality exchange. Officially you need to be 18 to sign up but you shouldn't be a verified CouchSerfer anyway... guakasite, wikitalk 20:41, 9 August 2008 (CEST)

Google rank

We're still not in the top 10 when googling for hitchhiking. But we might make it in the top 10 soon in the English language if we get some more mention in the press, possibly through the 888 press buzz :) It would be good to add some more links to hitchwiki from any public page (e.g. your blog). guakasite, wikitalk 20:44, 9 August 2008 (CEST)

And it helped! We're at number 8 now, so finally on the first page! --Robino 14:58, 20 August 2008 (CEST)
The results can vary from country to country and from computer to computer, because google creates a personal profile and tries to optimize the results for you. From here, when I delete all my cookies, hitchwiki is already on number 4 :D --MrTweek 15:54, 20 August 2008 (CEST)

Hitchhiking gestures

Thumb up we usually use to stop cars can be understood by some cultures as very serious insult. Signs language varies on every continent/country/culture. Maybe we should create a page to share/exchange this information??? Thanx, Mirto 20:44, 26 August 2008 (CEST)

Sure, sounds good! Just start it ;-) platschisite, wikitalk 12:18, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
It was one of the things why for a night I slept quite bad during a visit to the Polish-Lithuanian border region, where I was staying with artistic hc-members (professional artists), I was thinking much about creating such info on my hh in the Netherlands site. There are one or two sheets with signals of both hitchhikers and drivers in the nice book Autostop polski which was published a few years ago. http://www.ha.art.pl/?view=news&nid=75 --Fverhart 12:30, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
Great idea. Hitchhiking Gestures, I propose. We could start with a gesture, and list the countries? Maybe an idea as well to create icons for the different gestures and to place the appropriate icon in the entry for a country/ city. See also Hitchhiking techniques. --Robino 00:46, 28 August 2008 (CEST)
Great! I was thinking more about continents->countries (->regions if needed).That is the way you will naturally look for information. If I am going to south Italy, I will not check gest by gest to know which one is working there. But it shouldnt be to complicated neither.

So maybe you could find a place where we could put ideas about Hitchhiking Traces? I mean things remaining after something as ephemeral as a ride? Postcards we send to drivers, notes we can find on road sines left by other hikers, cardboard sign found at a spot with the same direction as yours... I am sure there are many more of those things! What you think? You know, hitchhiking is an Art. Mirto

I like your ideas. For such simple things, don't bother to ask, just start a page. ;) It's very likely, that others will help anyway --MrTweek 10:25, 28 August 2008 (CEST)
Cool. But I don't think Hitchhiking Traces is good name. Yet I can't find any better. Anyone?
I think it's not so bad. Maybe rather Hitchhiker's Traces? --MrTweek 17:00, 28 August 2008 (CEST)
OK, as Guaka has changed Hitchhiking Gestures into Gestures, I think just Traces would be good. Anyone for? Mirto 20:23, 6 September 2008 (CEST)
Sounds great, just start it :) platschisite, wikitalk 23:11, 14 September 2008 (CEST)

hitching is not dangerous

I talked lately to some hitchhiking beginners and I realized how annoying can it be to convince your parents that hitching is not lethal. maybe we should create special letter, ready to print, that hitchhikers could show their families?