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Hey everybody,last Monday I hitchhiked towards Oerlinghausen near Bielfeld to hold a little speech at an exposition about the mobility of humans in the Mesolithic period(Middle Stone Age) and the connection you can make about flexibility and mobility of the people today. Quite interesting to find an connection between the stone age people and the drivers of today! There was also an interview with the Neue Westfälische, a quite big newspaper in the east of Westphalia. We even made it onto the main page! To read the interview, just click on the image to your right.Hitchhiking towards Bielefeld was a “Kinderspiel” (extremely easy). In Hörstel I got a ride with a referee from the Kreisliga C, where my old team from Brukteria Dreierwalde (team 3) is still playing. Good memories while talking about the local football! He also drove me 2 ramps further towards OS-Nahne to give me a better spot for hitching down to Bielefeld. There I had luck and found a driver directly going to Versmold, all down the A33. At the beginning (or end) of the A33 I hitched along the street and have been picked up by an African driver who was going all the way to Bielfeld. Easy, man!For the way back on Tuesday from Oerlinghausen towards Enschede, I decided to hitch a quite uncommon way. From Bielefeld down the A1 towards Dortmund, just before the Kamer Kreuz up towards Münster and from there via the Bundesstrasse 54 towards Enschede.In Bielefeld I got a ride within seconds at the ramp. These guys were going towards Essen, so in one ride I already stood in front of the highway crossing A1/A2. Funny conversations about the kitchen of Andre Rieu, and we came to the conclusion that he needs a whole truck with a kitchen on the road only to transport his Dutch deep fat fryer (Friteusse) for making Frikandellen all the day.On the service station I waited quite a long time, because all people who stopped for me were going into the Ruhr Area, which was not my direction. After a while I just decided to take a ride to the service station Dortmund-Lichtendorf (direction south the A1) were I had the chance to get over the highway to the gas station on the other side for direction north. And it worked, after a while (and numerous ride offers towards Bielefeld and Hannover where I just came from…) I had a ride with 2 young girls towards Hamburg! Yeah! I got off in Münster, walked to the next traffic lights and got a ride through the whole city towards the gas station on the way to the B54.Is it really that easy these days? One ride to Laer, there the lady (3rd ride with a woman today!) was exchanging some window panes with a colleague who gave me a ride to Steinfurt. (Carglass repariert Scheiben geht so!) :DIn Steinfurt I easily got a ride towards the ramp of the way to Gronau-Enschede, where a guy from the Dutch army picked me up and rode me the last meters towards Enschede.In total it took me 5 hours for this ~235 km, where the most time I lost on the service station before the Kamener Kreuz (denying many ride offers to Essen, Dortmund, Aachen,…) because I tried to hitch northwards. Also the crossing to the other side of the Lichtendorf service station took me more than 30 minutes. For the rest, an amazing hitchhiking day!And nevertheless, saved a lot of money, had some good conversations and did something good for the invironment because I used already driving resources which were going their ways anyway.

~ by platschi on 2 April, 2008.