Riding With Lady Luck

9/8/10 ???, Germany->Paris, France My last day of hitchhiking went quite well, and had a very fitting end. I slept really well in Henrik’s van and enjoyed the sound of the rain. At first I turned down the blanket he offered, but I got cold and got it later. With the blanket, I was warm, [...]

So Open Up, I’m Climbing In

9/7/10 This one is labeled “???, Germany->???, Germany” Yesterday was my third day of hitchhiking, and my hardest yet, but I ended up VERY lucky. I woke up early (it was cold) and started hitching about 7am. I waited for HOURS, and no one stopped. The only person that did was an undercover police officer [...]

Ten Miles From Nowhere

9/6/10 I have been heading my journal entries with where I am, and this one reads “Nuremberg->??? , ” which is fairly accurate. Yesterday started off rough, but got infinitely better. I woke up around 6am and went straight to the hitchhiking spot on an onramp to the freeway that I had found the night [...]

Gonna Hitch a Ride

9/5/10 I am hitchhiking from Prague to Paris–about 1000 Kilometers or 600 miles. I wasn’t sure if it would work, but my first day was wildly successful. I left the hostel around 11:30am to head to the spot I was told by hitchwiki–a wiki sight for hitchhiking all over the world–to go to. I was [...]

Heartache and Hangovers

9/4/10 Yesterday was a good, distracting way to keep my mind off of Katerina, and it was also fun. I woke up late and after showering and washing some clothes in the shower (I had only packed ONE pair of jeans since it was supposed to be summer my entire trip, but it had been [...]

Goodbye

Yesterday was the end of my time with Katerina, which I was not looking forward to. Two months of thinking about her and anticipating my visit created an understandable let down at the thought of not having that to look forward to anymore. I wrote her a long letter on a page from my journal [...]

Helplessly Hoping

4/2/10 Yesterday was an important day. I woke up with Katerina at 5am, her usual time to get up for work, and sat with her while she had breakfast. I finally told her that maybe I should sleep at a hostel that night. I don’t think she was surprised at the idea, but I think [...]

Bad Timing

9/1/10 Five months of traveling! Wow. Yesterday was up and down. I was not happy about the night before, but I forced myself to get outside and walk around. I left Katerina’s place around 11am and went into the city. It was a rainy day, and I couldn’t go back to Kat’s because I didn’t [...]

At Last

8/31/10 After two months of anticipation, I made it to Katerina’s. She picked me up from the bus station around 2pm when I got in and took me back to her place, making me give her my second bag to carry as soon as she finished giving me a hug. She did a bit of [...]

Dankeschoen

8/30/10 Yesterday was very rainy, and I had no desire to go outside. I had done a lot of exploring around the city already (though I feel like I barely made a dent) and there was nothing that had me so motivated that I wanted to spend more time in the rain exploring. So I [...]