On June 17, 2014, after a few days in Paris I headed towards Rennes. This is the GPSLogger track I followed:<\/p>\n
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Hitchwiki suggested that hhiking out of Paris toward the direction I wanted might take long.<\/p>\n
I went to the specified location and it was filled with parked cars. After half an hour of no success, I decided to get closer to the road.<\/p>\n
I the end I walked 4Km stopping at many points for varied periods of time. 3 hours had already gone by. I walked back to the first point and waited another half hour. Finally a cart stopped. A nice Colombian woman offered me a ride to the \u201cTotal\u201d station on her way. Not too far, but at least it was on the correct path, and on the road.<\/p>\n
By the time we got there, it was already so late that I warned my CouchSurfing host that I might not make it during the day.<\/p>\n
After some 20 minutes in the station, two girls came up to me and offered me a ride. But they were going to Nantes, not Rennes. I said I didn\u2019t have a place to stay in Nantes. Marie, one of the girls said she was a CSer as well and that she could probably host me.<\/p>\n
I got in the car. After a few phone calls it was settled: she could host me. We got there at around midnight.<\/p>\n
What have I learned from this? Paris can be a really hard place to hitch out from. And that there are people nice enough to host a stranded hitch-hiker in the last minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On June 17, 2014, after a few days in Paris I headed towards Rennes. This is the GPSLogger track I followed: [map style=”width: auto; height:400px; margin:20px 0px 20px 0px; border: 1px solid black;” kml=”http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20140617191229.kml”] Hitchwiki suggested that hhiking out of Paris toward the direction I wanted might take long. I went to the specified location … Continue reading The hitch-hiking experience pt. 3<\/span>