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As for sleeping when you're not invited back, best bring a nice thick sleeping bag and find yourself a good spot to sleep in. In cities, the best spots are industrial zones (although usually a long distance from the centre), upper class neighbourhoods, and of course train stations and airports! Train stations however will often close in the middle of the night to clear the place out of bums like you. Big stations that stay open all night such as Paris and Berlin and airports will often have security walking about to wake you up. If you're stuck in the city centre with no station or access to an industrial zone/posh neighbourhood, your best bet is to keep walking until you reach a quiet area and find a nice alleyway or empty park; but don't sleep bang on in the city centre in clear light as it increases your odds of being robbed by... a lot. You could also go to a homeless shelter, they always provide a bed and usually food. They are everywhere in London and Germany, and quite common elsewhere in the first world. Whether you're inside our outside of cities, motorway bridges provide great shelter, and so does having a tent. A tent can also be useful when you're in a city, because walking around and asking people if you can pitch your tent in their frontyard is an amazing pre-stage for being invited back for dinners, showers or even beds, especially if it's rainy out.
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=== What to do if a driver requests money unexpectedly ===
Well then seemingly the only solution is to tell them you have none! Or if you're a suck up can always fork it over, but I've never met anyone who had a driver MAKE them pay.
=== What to do if a driver offers money ===
== Travelling without Money ==
There are some people out there who hitch hike LONG distances with no money such as the infamous Tom Thumb, who hitched from England to India with just his rucksack, a clarinet, 2 loafs of bread and £0GBP 0.00. There are also not so famous hitchers like [[User:Aaronishappy|Aaronishappy]] who hitched from Norway to Morocco, with just €2 EUR 2 arriving in Norway and his rucksack (and coming back with 20NKRNKR 20, 5EUREUR 5, 4SF CHF 4 and 2GBPGBP 2, which is 20NKRNKR 20, 5EUREUR 5, 4SF CHF 4 and 2GBP GBP 2 more than he had when he left!).
While completely crazy it is certainly possible, but not necessarily fun. You will ask yourself several times a day "what am I going to eat" or "where am I going to sleep", you will regret ever leaving your house, but knowing that no matter how bad things get they can only get better is a certain comfort. Don't forget, though, that while you see all these fancy backpackers with their expensive train tickets and those posh tourists stuffing themselves with cakes at the hotel restaurant, they're only seeing the plastic, fake, tourist side of a country. You in your desperate efforts to survive get to see the entirety of a country, "warts and all"!
How do you do it then? The easiest answer is that you don't think about it and just do it. The most comfortable way of survival is to come into contact with people, which works especially well when hitchhiking. The trick here is to score food, money (if you want to accept that), a place to sleep, a map, a joint or whatever else. Often you can get things without resorting to the pity game, but if you really need to, tell them you have no money, but not so bluntly. Be "covert" about it and ask questions such as where you can eat for free, use the internet for free, or "hey, do they have homeless shelters here?" Even if they don't ask why, it will strongly smell like pennylessness. They'll usually be surprised that you really are skint and will be happy to give a hand to the weary poor traveller, usually in the form of money or food. Don't expect a treat every time you hop your jolly arse into that car, however. The trick is to be genuine in expecting nothing, because when you expect nothing, the smallest thing you get will make you happy.
When stuck somewhere, your best bet (better than just keeping on walking...) is talking to people in the street. Talk about travel related things and expand on them (ie i.e. directions, where to hitch, etc, use your imagination!); be friendly and genuine, and incredible things will happen. If you're travelling in a Muslim country, you can basically disregard all of this, as Muslim hospitality will clothe and feed you without you ever saying a word!
=== Transportation ===
Well, as this is a wiki about hitchhiking, we don't really need to elaborate on this. Also think about trainhopping though, both on freight trains and on passenger trains (although this is illegal and hitchwiki obviously doesn't support that ;-))
=== Food ===
There are numerous ways of feeding yourself when pennyless penniless and travelling. Next to benefiting from people's friendliness, there's dumpster diving (or skipping, in the UK), waiting opposite of outdoor pizzerias and preying on leftover pizza slices, shoplifting (but only in big super markets, please), etc.
=== Accomodation [[Accommodation]] === As for sleeping when you're not invited back, best bring a nice thick sleeping bag and find yourself a good spot to sleep in. In cities, the best spots are industrial zones (although usually a long distance from the centre), upper class neighbourhoods, and of course train stations and airports! Train stations however will often close in the middle of the night to clear the place out of bums like you. Big stations that stay open all night such as Paris and Berlin and airports will often have security walking about to wake you up. If you're stuck in the city centre with no station or access to an industrial zone/posh neighbourhood, your best bet is to keep walking until you reach a quiet area and find a nice alleyway or empty park; but don't sleep bang on in the city centre in clear light as it increases your odds of being robbed by... a lot. You could also go to a homeless shelter, they always provide a bed and usually food. They are everywhere in London and Germany, and quite common elsewhere in the first world. Whether you're inside our outside of cities, motorway bridges provide great shelter, and so does having a tent. A tent can also be useful when you're in a city, because walking around and asking people if you can pitch your tent in their front yard is an amazing pre-stage for being invited back for dinners, showers or even beds, especially if it's rainy out. == More information ==* [[nomad:Money|Nomadwiki]]* [[trash:Money|Trashwiki]]* [[:moneyless:tags/traveling-without-money|Moneyless.org]] contains some tips about living and [[:moneyless:how-travel-no-money|traveling without money]] (or with much less money).
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