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== March 2022 - South Tyrol (Italy) | 1 km==
Went to some bars with my brother and a friend of mine after a stressful day of skiing. To We were too tired to walk home to my apartment so be we thumbed. The second car stopped and took us the last kilometer to our apartment.
== December 2021 - Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) | 72km ==
In the night from 28 to 29, my travel partners for the next week arrived in Prishtina. We arranged our trip through couchsurfing and stayed at the same host for a night. It was a bit weird in the beginning since we barely knew each other and already started a one week vacation together. After a delicious and heavy Kosovar breakfast consisting of "flija" and ayran, we started heading for a good spot in the south of the city center we found here on Hitchwiki. After a few moments of confusion, we realized that the location that was described as a large construction zone with a lot of space for cars does not longer exist since the buildings have been finished in the meantime. This ment that there was a lot less space but since our only other option was to walk a few more kilometers out of town we decided to try anyways.
We couldn't believe that the first car that passed us already stopped. It was a Bristish car with a British license plate which looked rather expensive with a well dressed guy who apparently had family in the region. He offered to take us to the border to Macedonia so we quickly put our luggage in his back and got in. What we didn't mention when talking to him was that we didn't want to pay. Before he started going, he asked us how much we can pay him. It was a little bit uncomfortable to tell him that we expected to get a free ride. He seemed a bit unhappy about this but not rude, yet he didn't want to take us for free. We unloaded our stuff again and were a bit sad that our luck betrayed us in this way. Thumbs out again. The next car to stop would take us to Ferizaj, half the way to the border to Macedonia. I don't remember a lot about him, but he was extremly hospitable. He offered to invite us for lunch more than once but since we still had some activities planned in Skopje for the afternoon, we had to decline. Still, we weren't able to reject his invitation for a coffee at a neat place in Ferizaj before he dropped us of directly at the road at maybe the best stop we had on this journey.
There was a lot of unpaved space near the road and since it was the junction to get on the highway, most cars where going rather slow. Basically every second car stopped here, unfortunately many could only take us 10-20km further down the road but our plan was to get a car at least directly to the border from here since we didn't want to give up this spot. After around ten minutes, a guy probably in his early 30s stopped. It was hard to communicate since he didn't spoke any of the languages we know and we couldn't speak Albanian. Nevertheless he was very kind and took us directly to the border to Macedonia. We stopped on the highway to take some pictures together and from what I could understand he explained a lot about the newly built highway and the stunning looking region we crossed. I was a little bit confused after we got out of the car since he turned around and went back the way we came from, so apparently he drove at least the last bit of the road just to drop us of at the border and not because he needed to go there himself. The Kosovar and Macedonian border posts are directly behind each other so we decided to cross both and tried our luck directly after the second checkpoint. Cars were going by slow
Prishtina -> Prizren: 2 rides
