How to get to another country and not spend a single euro. Part 2. (Patreon)

To date, options for budget travel are enough. You can find cheap bus tickets or find a suitable and cheap plane flight. I wildly hate to ride buses, there is a journey of more than 6-8 hours. You spend all your time in a sitting position. You can’t walk or lie down. There is only one stop. You’ll be lucky on a plane, and you will buy tickets, but it happens that he writes you such a price that you are at a loss on how to get there. My way of traveling is hitchhiking. I know he is not stable. You can get both 2 hours and 2 days. It sounds very scary, but it depends on your skills. As practice has shown, it is necessary to select tactics for each country. Indeed, in every country people are different. This is a very budgetary way to get around. And as for me the most interesting, fascinating, and intriguing. Everyone will now think about how the bus route differs from hitchhiking. This is actually a very stupid question. When you stop the car, the so-called game starts. You yourself choose how to play it. As a very sociable person, I begin to ask the driver about the country/city or about the standard of living. It really helps you understand what awaits you in this country. If you are not a communicative person, then there will be a problem (it does not always occur). The driver can talk to you himself, but if you just keep quiet or briefly answer questions, then the driver will feel uncomfortable and will doubt the choice of hitchhikers.

For everyone, hitchhiking it will be a very serious and difficult step. Our parents taught us that you can not get into a stranger in a car. Morally, it will be felt this way. But on the theory, when you go out on the track and hold your finger up, then you make it clear that you are a traveler. Yes, and everything in life can happen. Several times I could not leave the city and hitchhiking helped me with this.

Of course, for many people, this will not be an option for movement. You need to prepare for this. Once again, you need to think and look at the list of buses, maybe there will be exactly your option of movement.

I talked about ways to get around, now let's talk about funny stories in hitchhiking. Every country, every city, every car, it's like a new story. I have been hitchhiking for about 4 years. And only the second year I go abroad. There were both terrible events and very funny ones. I know that you want to hear a couple of scary stories, so here is one of them.

Once, when I went to another city (Zaporozhye) to climb onto a crane, I could not find tickets back. I was already in Zaporizhzhia at that time. There were no tickets for the train, and the bus was very expensive. I was with a friend, and we decided to hitchhike. The city was 500 km from Kyiv, and literally in a day, I had to go to work. On the way to the highway, we went to a gas station and asked for cardboard to write the city we were going to. We approached the main highway and began to try to stop the car. Almost an hour passed, and no one stopped. We already thought that the place was bad, we wanted to leave when the car began to stop. We asked where the driver was going. He replied that he would go to the neighboring big city, which is about 100-150 km. It was on the way for us, so we got into the car. When we were driving, I just looked out the window in the back seat and listened to the "stalker" audiobook in the car. Since I did not play a game or read a book, I was not aware of anything. When a friend of mine asked the driver if he was aware of anything about this, the driver simply replied that they recommended this to him, and he decided to listen. He thought that we didn’t like it and decided to switch from an audiobook to his music. How terrible it was, the music was so disgusting that I wanted to get out of the car and catch another. But I reassured myself that we only need to drive 100 km. My parents called my friend to find out when he arrives, he talked about plans. That we will land in one city and will continue to catch. When a friend hung up, the driver asked, wondering where we were going. We replied that we were heading to Kyiv, for some reason he picked up his phone, called someone and said: I’m going to Kyiv here and you’ll be waiting for me, I’ll come by 2 am. I was perplexed at what was happening. When we arrived in the nearest city, he told us to wait, because he needed to give SOMETHING from the trunk. Most of the way I don’t really remember because I slept almost all the time. I remember waking up and looking at the map, and for some reason, we were driving in the wrong direction at all, and I began to really worry. But everything worked out, for some reason, we went around. When we were almost in the city, my friend and I began to think about where to go, because it was night and the transport was no longer working.I tried to talk with the driver, but the dialogue was something like this: my question: “Where will you go so I know where to go?”, His answer: “I go where you do not need”, I sit and think, maybe I then rudely asked. Having tried again: “Can you tell me where we should go to make it convenient for you and me?” To which I received the answer "Soon to leave." Well, I think something is wrong here. I'm starting to build an action plan just in case. There are many thoughts in my head about what to do. When we arrived at the station, he said: "Now you can go out." It was so strange for me, but then I realized what my friend said while I was sleeping, he smoked homemade cigarettes again and again. A friend smelled a strange smell, but could not understand what it was. And then it turned out that throughout the trip he smoked weed and drove high. This is perhaps the strangest and most dangerous journey for me.

I have described only one story on this subject, but if you want to read more past events, write to me about it. I must understand whether to dwell on this topic or skip