Stuck inside of mobile with the Memphis blues again
Two weeks ago I managed to do my second long-distance hitchhiking trip this year, from Enschede towards Weingarten (Württemberg) in the south of Germany.
Starting on Friday morning in Enschede, I arrived at the ramp of the A35 towards Gronau at around 10 o’clock. For my surprise two hitchhikers were already waiting there for a ride towards Berlin. Well, might be better for then to hitch a ride towards the A1 first, but whatever. It seemed that they did a hitchhiking competition from Nijmegen to Berlin, and after asking google I found this video by some contributors of the competition.
Some minutes later, both were gone, I also found a ride with a truck driver towards Gronau. There the spot seemed quite bad, no real space for cars to stop, but by destiny a Dutch guy stopped for me and told me that he’s going to Hungary now. Wow, amazing! He himself hitchhiked back in the 70’s quite a lot through Europe and Isreal. Great, and some 4,5 hours (and annoying traffic jams in Bavaria) later I had to leave him at a service station next to Würzburg. In Würzburg I realised for the first time that day that easter holidays began in some parts of Germany, because hundreds of cars filled up with families and these stupid boxes on their roof populated the parking areas. Since my hitchhiking trip to Bulgaria last year I nourish hatred against these boxes, because this is an 100% indicator for 200% filled up cars from Germany going to Turkey and no one that picks you up.
But back to topic, nevertheless some people stopped for me there but most of them weren’t going south. Some 25 minutes later a Bavarian guy was riding towards Ulm, so I got into that car. Communication was a bit difficult because of an obvious language barrier from my side. Beginning every sentence with “Joa mei” doesn’t really makes sense to me 
Later on a service station just before Ulm I got my 4th and last ride for today by a family in their caravan who was going towards the south of France for some relaxed holidays. Amazing, and around 7.30 p.m. they let me out on a ramp near Wangen im Allgäu.
For my surprise this ramp was a total disaster, no light (it was already dark) and cars rushing by with 100 km/h. I walked to some nearby village and tried to hitch a ride towards Ravensburg, but only got offers to a nearby village I surely don’t wanted to visit. In the end I took the last bus going towards Ravensburg which costed me some 2,80 Euro. I think this is acceptable, no more than 3 Euro for traveling through the whole country.
In the end the trip of around 743 km took me around 9,5 hours, which is quite fast I guess.
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