TR-Advent calendar#25

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#25: Elisa When I was thinking of my first time, I realised, that back then I had no idea how important – or at the same time better normal- hitchhiking would be for me one day, 9 years later.   So, I was travelling in central america, and after a while I was really „on […]

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TR-Advent calendar # 24

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#24: Robert Today is Christmas Eve. And what do you do on this day when you are home alone? Right, you go to a bar. Exactly what happened to me some time in the mid-2000s, so around 4 p.m. I started my way to the city center of Dresden to find a nice bar to […]

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TR-advent calendar #23

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#23: Stefan Shit. The sun is already setting. And nobody is stopping. Really nobody stops at this damn spot. Motorway-ramp Leipzig Nord-Ost towards Dresden. I am standing here for several hours. It is cold. Smelly fumes fill the air. Loud and annoying cars drive past me. I am frustrated. No love for me. What is […]

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TR-Advent calendar #22

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#22: Hauke The translator would like to express his consternation that the author didn’t manage to learn English during the innumerable hours, nay days that people left him standing next to the road due to his lack of hitchhiking talent and skanky appearance. English may have helped this lost cause of a ride bummer to […]

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TR-advent calendar #21

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#21: Johannes You can barely call it „hitchhiking“ when I first decided to stand by the road and hold my thumb out, hoping for somebody to pick me up. It was in August 2011, after I just quit my physics studies, so I had a lot of free time and not much on my mind […]

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