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Inspired by Elisa, my lovely roommate at that time, I chose to give hitchhiking a first try in 2010. I decided to go to [[Osnabrück]] to visit my girlfriend, who studied there at that time, but unlike usually chose to [[hitchhike]], rather than [[rideshare]]. Being overly happy about a guy saying, he's goin' North, I also immediately made my first [[Mistakes|mistake]]...
I started from [[Leipzig]] and would have gone {{Ade|14}} to [[Magdeburg]], then [[A2]] to [[Hannover]] -> [[Bad Oeynhausen]] then {{Ade|30}} to Osna - usually 4-6 hours driving. But instead I totally messed up that there are 2 highways going north -> {{Ade|9}} North to [[Berlin]] and {{Ade|14}} NorthWEST to [[Magdeburg]]. Of course there was no rest station to get off, once I realized, that Berlin is the wrong highway...
So I thought it'll be alright and I'll just get off at the last gas station (see Nr. 1 in Pic above) before the Berlin Ring Highway and ask around for whoever's goin West (Magdeburg).
Unfortunately it turned out, people would go a lot of different directions, into Berlin, [[Hamburg]], [[Rostock]], [[Stralsund]] and [[Frankfurt_an_der_Oder]] but nobody went West. Why? Everyone coming from Leipzig or in between would have taken the A14 {{Ade|14}} directly.So after asking around for quite long and going back into the gas station to check the maps a again, a man helped and told me I wouldn't find anyone. So -believe it or not- he went 45 min out of his direction to drive me to the next gas station on the A2 {{Ade|2}} -> this time heading the right direction...
Funnily enough, and to prevent these things from happening again, he gave me his Atlas for the future - great guy!
Getting there it was already dark and so I only managed to go to Hannover that day. Luckily my brother lives there, so I crashed at his and proceeded the next day to Osna...
What a bad start - yet I've learned so much right away :)
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