User:Siinvincible
I have hitchhiked since the day in September 2007 when I missed the school bus....and now have managed to hitch as far as the southernest part of France and back, and plan so much more.
Hitchhiking has always proved to be extremely powerful in that it feels like its me and the world communicating with each other. Sure, times can be hard, and places can consume me for a day whilst I trying to get out, but there's always also so many fantastic times, and usually when I've been stuck in a place for a long time I get the most awesome of rides.
I've managed to find the 'travel' in 'travelling' through hitchhiking. Before discovering, I'd get a train to my destination, or go on holidays with parents either by car or by plane, and would never really meet local people. Now, I actually feel I discover lands because I am told all about them, I meet the life inside them, and I actually move through them. It is so much greater the weather gradually getter hotter as going further south than walking off a plane to a huge gush of hot air.
I know the east part of England quite well, I've lived in this area of England for my whole life, but I still crave to know it so much better. I will know it better!
There are so many more journeys ahead of me...!
