Late in Istanbul

The truck driver went all around Istanbul. I had no idea where he wanted to dropped me off. I arrived east side of the city around 11.30pm… Tried to continue hitchhiking, without any luck, and finally found a place to sleep outside.

Speaking Spanish With Bulgarian Guy

He picked me up in Italy, near Venice, and we went directly to Vidin, in Bulgaria, driving almost all night. We tried communicate first with english, but found out we could actually do it better in Spanish. He lived there for couple of years.

Psychedelic People

People who were involved in the first Psychedelic festival in Estonia. One Estonian, one Canadian and one Swiss. It was a really nice ride. I'm glad that I waited 10 minutes under an heavy rain.

Jeweler

A nice young jeweler picked me up. He hitchhiked himself from Estonia to Spain. He gave me one of his craft, a nice Icelandic Viking protection.

Armenian guy - Cigarette butt idea

His was driving too fast, and not looking the road while talking to me. Was throwing his cigarettes butt away from his window, and I finally got an idea how to prevent that on my next rides : having an ashtray (a box actually), to pick up cigarette butts while hitchhiking, and talk about it with my driver so they can add it to my collect if they smoke.

Smoking or driving ?

Well, the driver and his friend didn't choose in between. They started smoking weed and telling me about their party of last night, so I asked to get out of the car at the next village.

From Nowhere to Home

A young french dude, picked me up in a small village in the mountain, almost directly to my place. I got lucky as the traffic was very poor in that spot. And very nice ride!

Runner

He made a detour to put me in a good spot. He was going to run in the forest to train for a race.

Medical Assistant

A french women who was working with elderly people in Switzerland, saying it is way better than in France, as they have time to do their work properly and with good condition of work.

RH Girl

She picked me up in a not so good spot, and brought me in a perfect direction. She is living in Fribourg since ever, and wants to escape somewhere.

Comic Author

Xavier, a comic author, gave me a ride before he was going to a BD convention for 3 days.

Polish Guy

Strangest guy ever. A polish guy who was speaking to me in a mix of french, english and german. He was giving me advice of what to do as work as being an helper for elderly in Switzerland because it's good money.

Retired couple

Nice couple. The guy was remembering the trips he made when he was younger like going to the north pole in Sweden from switzerland.

Commercials can pickup

The guy was a commercial and was supposed to go only to Dôle, but as he had time, he brought me directly where I needed.

Small Town

3 guys picked me up, and we found out we had lots of friends in commun mid-way. Fun drive !