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Narnua is Anu, originally from [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]], and some other places since then, now somewhat based in [[Amsterdam]] for the time being. Hitching is on my list of things to get more into, as the first ride ever was pretty awesome.
Nelson to Christchurch * First trials in New Zealand, first ride of 15 minutes with drop-off on a supposedly better hitching place, second with an English truck-driver (apparently also on the list of the most nomadic-friendly professions!my own) for 45 minutes to a scenetic spot, and the last for the remaining 4 hours with a couple of young dudes day-trip in a nice new car for 4 hours all the way Netherlands. * September 2009: Tallinn to ChCh central Amsterdam, ~2500km (to meet up with my friends there. About 5 hours in allavoid simply flying home, pretty damn nice considering the busride with detours and stops in between because I ended up doing later lasted around 8! know too many hardcore hitchhikers), longest ride ~450km, from 1.5h out of Warsaw to Berlin (and further on to NL for my hitching partner)
Thinking back, the first hitch-experience might actually be the scooter-ride with some Asian business guy to get from downtown Panjim, Goa a few kilometers up the hill to Dona Paula - I was most likely just asking directions (been a while so details are fuzzy) to get there by bus and the guy knew the house I needed to visit and was going closeby himself, so just gave me a ride instead.  Recent experience - from Amsterdam to Den Bosch and back:* hitch at traffic lights somewhere nearby Amstel station, with the first car we asked, to the next gas station just a few hundred meters away (walking is for wimps ;)* From the gas station, with third person asked to just after Utrecht* Sign and some looking friendly and asking at the gas station, ride all the way to the destination (literally front door)* Back: just by preparing the sign on sight with people passing by, getting lots of symphatetic looks and "sorry that I'm not going your direction". And then the perfect ride all the way back, back at front door 4am :) Despite of the newbieness, I'm somewhat involved with tweaking the [http://www.hitchwiki.org/forum Hitchwiki forum].  Blogging some over [http://anujossain.blogspot.com over here] [[Category:Hitchhikers from wherever]]
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