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Hitching Around California With Bridget

Bridget had just arrived in the United States and our first hitchhiking trip had landed us in Sacramento. We got dropped off just south of…

Bridget Arrives In America

I turned Bridget around, we smiled, we hugged, we kissed, we were back together for an adventure. Earlier that morning I’d woken up in my …

Little Hitches And Family Time Before The Next Adventure

I split with Kasey in the Vegas morning, he was northbound by thumb, I was southbound. Thanksgiving was just a couple days away and I had …

Trip Hopping Brew And Vegas Celebration 2011

A quick road trip with my sister landed me in Phoenix for the 2011 Trip Hopping Brew. Trip Hopping came about after meeting Larry, I’d bee…

Quick Road Trip With My Sister

Nine months going around the world, now less than a week back in the US and I had to get moving again. My sister had started school in Hol…

Back In The USA For The Wedding

The plane touched down in New York City, the rest of the world was boiled down to memories and new friends. Almost a year had passed since…

Last Of Germany And A World Trip

A shower, coffee and soup is all I needed before hitching out of Belgium towards Germany, towards the end of Europe, the end of a world tr…

Last Journey For Belgian Beers

I woke up somewhere barely north of Paris ten days before my flight from Germany to New York City. I was off in the bush, hidden away in m…

With Mandie To Paris

Mandie and I were excited for Paris after about a week of catching up with some old friends in the Netherlands. We’d been juggling various…

Alaskan Reunion in The Netherlands

The first person I saw as I hopped out of the car was a man in wooden clogs, clearly I was in Holland. I’d just hitchhiked from Brussels t…

Back To Belgium

I walked down the road sipping a beer, Heidelburg had been great, my hosts had filled me with breakfast and now Brussels was my destinatio…

Aimless Hitchhike Through Germany, Switzerland and France

I walked down the Munich streets in the rain, backpack on with all my belongings, no destination, but apparently a direction. I’d just spe…

To Munich and It's Beer

I had Munich on my mind as we got things packed up in Berlin. Dave was moving to a town halfway between and offered to let me ride with hi…

Blackout in Berlin

I had no idea of the drunken madness that was to come, I was just aiming for Berlin. My new friend Luis was living there, I’d spent just o…

Loving Czech, Pilsners and Otherwise

Czech seemed like a great destination that morning in Vienna. I had a coffee with Nina, my host there in Austria, made up a sign and hit t…

Bonus Trip to Vienna

It took all day to get out of Turkey. I walked away from the airport where Walter was catching his flight back west, I was thumbing it in …

The Hitch to Istanbul

I walked up to the Bulgarian border patrol slightly buzzed, slightly hungover, Istanbul on my mind. I’d just had a wild weekend in Romania…

Romanian Wedding After Hitchhiking Through Five Countries

The morning was in Berlin, there was a long road between me and Romania. I grabbed some bread and cheese with my friend George and then wa…

Hitchhiking Through Germany to Berlin

The morning in Amsterdam was spent writing “Munster” on a piece of cardboard and walking towards the freeway with Rada, a Bulgarian girl I…

Amsterdam Community, Coding and Underground Sex Labyrinth

I motivated myself out from Kasey's place in Brussels after having had a good week in town. Now I was on foot, looking to find a good …

Belgian Beers and Geeking Out

I jumped out of the car now, the last of the many rides I’d gotten that day coming from Dusseldorf in Germany, now my feet were on the str…